I'm writing this as I feel the need to have a rant......
It's the busiest time of the year at work at the moment and have loads of stuff which I need to get done to meet strict deadlines & I don't know how I'm going to manage to do it all.
I've been studying constantly since the age of 5 (school, uni & now accountancy exams) and have got to that point where I'm fed up with it.
I'm beginning to ask myself is it worth it? Working my guts off at work to try & impress the boss & move up the career ladder, spending all my evenings and weekends wading my way through accountancy text books, getting all worked up & stressed over exams, hardly having any free time to myself (& when I do get spare time I usually have stuff around the house to do or am too knackered to do anything fun).
Wouldn't life be so much easier stacking shelves in Tesco's....but then I suppose the grass is always greener on the other side (plus I'm only 5'1" and am quite weedy so would probably be a useless shelf stacker!)My job allows me to have a mortgage and buy a few luxuries (not that many though - I'm not head of finance ....yet!)but I don't have the time to enjoy them.
Life seems to be a vicious circle - you work hard to buy a house to enable you to have a family - you work hard to support said family - you then work hard so that you're kids can go to uni/travel the world/take driving lessons etc - you work hard to save for a pension - then (if you're lucky & make it that far) you retire and hobble around with your zimmer frame for a few years before you pop your cloggs.
There seems to be more and more pressure to have the huge house, the luxury car, designer clothes etc etc.... but we're all getting majorly stressed out in the process...
I ask again - is it worth it? I think those women who marry rich business men for their money might have the right idea.........