Busier now more than ever? Student, intern and butcher

Students can often be tarnished with the brush of being layabouts. I can’t speak for all of them, but generally I’d like to disagree. And I’ve heard my fair share of this from parents, working friends without the commitments of being in university, complaining about long holidays and part time working weeks for us. However I often feel like there are not enough hours in the day, or days in the week. But is this a bad thing? Do I now like to be busy? It made me think where was my time mostly spent, and spent doing what.

Between working two days a week, (which will be three from July) at Grain, two days in the Butcher, whilst also balancing extra curricular commitments from university, this suddenly becomes at least a five-day working week. And of course trying to stay relatively fit. However this busy week schedule has become something I’ve come to relish and in turn questioned why. I’ve tried to visually represent my week in the below infographic. It compares time spent doing what takes up most of each day in a normal week.

This also made me think about what else I’d being doing over, yes, a long summer’s break, if not working. Let’s just say the list is pretty short. So thank you Grain! This would make an interesting comparison if I did the same thing for next term towards the end of the year and also in ten years’ time. How would my time comparisons compare?

Splitting time interning, studying and working can prove tricky when having to meet deadlines and various commitments. But so far I haven’t muddled them up and tried to bone and roll a MacBook or redesign a hindquarter. But what if you could redesign your week?