Expectations

When does it become too much? How do you feel when things are expected of you all of the time? Why is it that people think the only thing that should matter in your life is the stuff that you do for them? Take work for instance. You walk in the doors and you're expected to devote your entire shift to them. You're not to be late, take long breaks, or leave early. If you're feeling sick, you can only go home when they decide the needs of the business have been met. If you call in sick, you get reprimanded for it, and your hours get cut. Whether you have assignments coming out of your ass, or your sicker than a dog, you're expected to be there. Even though this is a place you KNOW you would never be working at 10 years from now. Let's talk University. First of all, TUITION! Please tell me, what student in their right mind can afford $5000.00 in tuition a year? On top of that, comes the cost of books and parking passes. If you're not living at home, there's rent and bills. For most of us, we also need to upkeep cars, and they're usually not the nice new ones. What other choice do most of us have but to work? You could be insanely crazy like me and work 3 jobs, volunteer with an ESL learner, and take 5 classes. In those classes, the professors believe their class is the only one that matters. They pile on the assignments, not realizing that you also have 4 other classes going on at the same time. Not to forget, the demands of finding a job, AND creating a portfolio. Where is their time to meet all of these expectations? When did it come to be that we need 25 hours in a day just to meet the demands of tomorrow? We are but one person, trying to survive, in order to meet the expectations of everyone else in our life. Let me leave you with this. When did it stop being important to have time for yourself? Do any of us actually know who we are anymore?