GirlAfraid23
08-09-12, 11:38
Having some issues people.
I have just started a new job. Its in a school as a teaching assistant & its only part time. However they asked me at the interview if I wanted to do the early morning club for the kids which means getting into school an hour before everyone else - 7.45am. Of course I said yes in the interview because I didn't want to look bad.
Now that I have the job every morning I have to come in at 7.45am. I have been doing it for a week now and already I am getting fed up. I have to get up at 6am everyday and because my body isn't accustomed to this, I struggle to get to sleep easily. I haven't had a decent night's sleep since monday - managing 3/4 hours a night so therefore the next day I'm a mess.
As soon as I'm in bed my brain starts going & I think I HAVE to sleep or else I'll be tired and then I can't so its a vicious circle.
I also can't switch off my brain and my anxieties are running riot in the night.
My second issue is with my hunger anxiety - I am ALWAYS hungry and its not a normal hunger either - its a painful, nauseous, sick feeling alongside shaky hands and a feeling of dizziness that I seem to get regularly. I always have breakfast in the morning - a bowl of cereal or crumpets at around 6.30am. I then have a banana at work around 8.15/8.30. By the time 10am comes around I am feeling disorientated and sometimes nauseous with the hunger.
I don't get a proper lunch break either because I'm part time so I get a 15 minute break from 10.50-11.05 in which time I need to eat something substantial (lunch that early never works for me) and this will have to last me until 1.30pm when I get home. So I don't have my lunch until then or when I get home at 2/2.30 sometimes depending on traffic.
Can anybody help? Its only my first week and I feel exhausted already! I'm dreading going back on monday!
I have just started a new job. Its in a school as a teaching assistant & its only part time. However they asked me at the interview if I wanted to do the early morning club for the kids which means getting into school an hour before everyone else - 7.45am. Of course I said yes in the interview because I didn't want to look bad.
Now that I have the job every morning I have to come in at 7.45am. I have been doing it for a week now and already I am getting fed up. I have to get up at 6am everyday and because my body isn't accustomed to this, I struggle to get to sleep easily. I haven't had a decent night's sleep since monday - managing 3/4 hours a night so therefore the next day I'm a mess.
As soon as I'm in bed my brain starts going & I think I HAVE to sleep or else I'll be tired and then I can't so its a vicious circle.
I also can't switch off my brain and my anxieties are running riot in the night.
My second issue is with my hunger anxiety - I am ALWAYS hungry and its not a normal hunger either - its a painful, nauseous, sick feeling alongside shaky hands and a feeling of dizziness that I seem to get regularly. I always have breakfast in the morning - a bowl of cereal or crumpets at around 6.30am. I then have a banana at work around 8.15/8.30. By the time 10am comes around I am feeling disorientated and sometimes nauseous with the hunger.
I don't get a proper lunch break either because I'm part time so I get a 15 minute break from 10.50-11.05 in which time I need to eat something substantial (lunch that early never works for me) and this will have to last me until 1.30pm when I get home. So I don't have my lunch until then or when I get home at 2/2.30 sometimes depending on traffic.
Can anybody help? Its only my first week and I feel exhausted already! I'm dreading going back on monday!