{"id":96,"date":"2023-07-06T18:36:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T10:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themessydesk.xyz\/?p=96"},"modified":"2023-07-06T18:36:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T10:36:52","slug":"burning-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themessydesk.xyz\/home\/burning-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning my life\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In exchange for publishing a journal paper. That\u2019s what my life has been pretty much the last half a year. As well as through Aug &#8211; say Nov last year. So really\u2026 Not much of a break at all\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And honestly, I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s really worth it. It\u2019s been going on for way too long, and it\u2019s been wayyy too much work. I swear, working 80 hour (or more) weeks is NOT normal for a research officer. You pretty much only hear that sort of numbers for doctors\u2026? Not that it\u2019s right for anyone to have to put in that sort of hours, regardless of pay\u2026 But I\u2019m only making a tiny fraction of what those folks are earning. Maybe something in the realm of a quarter or a 1\/5? It\u2019s rapidly becoming a life exchange. Exchanging my physical and mental health for\u2026 Nothing. No freaking clue if it\u2019s even worth anything at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only in the past few weeks, after a lot of shit and health scares in the family\u2026 That I forced myself to slow down\u2026 On the weekends that is. Tried to do a bit of art besides catching up on my sleep. Yeah, there\u2019s just too much shit to be done. I just could not avoid working till like 11 pm or 12 am on weekdays\u2026 The last two weeks were exceptionally bad, Like I\u2019d be jumping into the lab at 11 pm to start imaging a sample\u2026 I\u2019m exhausted. Physically and mentally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally have a bit of a breather now as we wait for the editor to respond\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I haven\u2019t been writing letters to pen pals in almost a year\u2026 But I did get back to journaling recently\u2026 Or what I call \u2018scrapbooking\u2019. Basically, printing photos on my Canon selphy photo printer and then sticking it on a notebook and writing some text to go with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of the photo printer\u2026 Geez\u2026 It gave me quite a scare as it just refused to recognise the ink cartridge and photo paper. Dug around the web for a bit, tried cleaning it out to no avail\u2026 In the end I almost dissembled the whole thing, till I could dissemble it no more, then put it back, and it miraculously works again. Has been working for a few weeks now (well I printed two other times besides the first) and so I take it as it being fixed now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what artsy stuff have I been up to? 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