My supervisor is trying to groom me for an admin position supporting the cardiac PICU director once my boss retires, a job with all kinds of fancy perks and great money and varied and interesting duties, and I'm gonna have to tell her NO. Just NO. I can't be a remotely competent parent and spouse and do that.
When is your boss retiring? Because things aren't going to be like this forever -- Matilda *will* start sleeping through the night. Probably pretty soon, if what I hear about babies is true. And then once you can get some regular sleep, you'll be able to handle everything with ease.
So unless your boss is retiring this afternoon, please don't tell your supervisor no.
JZ, it won't always be this bad. Don't give up on a good job for the long term just because you are desperately sleep-deprived now. I swear to you, it will get better, and fast. Right now she's adjusting to you working, and in a bad phase age-wise. This isn't the last bad phase, but it will get better. I promise.
So unless your boss is retiring this afternoon, please don't tell your supervisor no.
This. I think that it might be the sleep dep talking and general overwhelmedness. When you're in it, it's so hard to understand that it will change and get better... I talk here of general overwhelmedness and sleep dep and high frikken anxiety, not the kid stuff (of which I know nothing)... but, if it didn't get better, parents wouldn't have more than one kid, right?
An interesting new position with more perks and money etc... could be right up your alley, as long as it's not, as Steph says, this week.
Hang in there JZ.
Probably pretty soon, if what I hear about babies is true.
Emmett didn't sleep through the night until he was 5.
Probably pretty soon, if what I hear about babies is true.
Emmett didn't sleep through the night until he was 5.
Honey. Even though that's true, please don't add any more unproven worry to your sleep-deprived wife's brain, or she might just flip out like a mammal. Justifiably so.
Emmett didn't sleep through the night until he was 5.
Um, Emmett is a *little* unusual in that respect then. Did he actually wake you?
JZ, what everyone else has said. It does get better, really really truly. And you will feel better, and sharper, and a little bit more like yourself. I promise.
the $1300 in additional repairs of leaky valves and bald tires the car turned out to also need when I brought it in for the keys
You may have found out about this at the same time, but this is hardly your fault. Without being sleep-deprived and under the stress of learning to deal with a baby, I've done any number of less-than-smart things that have cost me a lot of money.
