The new year at the preschool has hardly started and already the jobs are piling up for me. You may remember that I do quite a bit of volunteer work there, mostly all the personnel stuff. In many respects I enjoy it. The people are nice, it is challenging work etc. But.... yep there are quite some buts. First of all, doing the personnal stuff means I am the one that has to tell the teachers that there will be no pay rise, that they can not have the day off etc. You guessed it, it doesn't make me Ms. Popularity. Unfortunately I hate any sort of confrontation (so what am I doing with HR?). Even worse though is the sheer amount of work that needs to be done.

I am seriously considering stepping down from my position. I feel horrible about it as I have only had it for one year and started with the understanding that I could do it for several years. But I had no idea how much time I would have to spend on this. Last year I worked about ten hours per week - if no new disaster struck. I have been kind of hoping that I could keep on doing it and just scale back on what I would do. Unfortunately, today I already spent an hour on the phone with preschool business and it was just preliminary stuff. I honestly don't think there is a way to get everything needed done on much less than 10 hours. There is no way that I can continue to spend so much time on it even if I wanted to. It was a major stretch last year and I am scheduled for four months of training starting in October which will mean that I am gone from home from 7:30 am to 1 pm every day. Add in household chores, taking care of the kids, applying for jobs, trying to make a little bit of money etc... I just have no spare time left.

Wednesday we are having a committee meeting. Hopefully, by that time I will have figured out what I want to do!