My job is understaffed and has asked me to sub every day since my second day of working there. I have had to turn them down so many times eventually I felt bad and started saying yes when really I do not have time to do so with my course load. I already think I work too many hours with my own shifts as I only asked to work 10 hours and they gave me nearly 15. I thought why not I’ll do it anyways back then but I am very overwhelmed because in the time I am not working often I am at various appointments for my mental or physical health or meetings for my job so I am finding I have almost no time to study and at the end of the day I am so tired I can’t focus enough to study well.
I don’t think this semester is going to go very well. Next semester I will be more firm in insisting I work only 10 hours a week and from now on will try to feel less guilty about not being able to sub as even though my classes are online I am still a full time student and that doesn’t mean I have to spend any less time on those classes. My education and grades come first to me. I think the stress from how overbooked I am is what is making me so unstable.