Do You Worry?

[Prepoia[$]]

Does anyone else worry when real life intrudes in the epinions cycle? For the last month I've been pushed "past" busy at work and at home. My school year is winding down on a long year with kids that were less than the better classes I've had. Lots of stress with them; lots of paperwork that's necessary for the end of the year; a young teacher on my team whose marriage has her in tears everyday; a son who is in the process of moving into his own home (closings, insurances, buying furnishings etc.); a college class that I need to complete my masters staring me in the face; doing the normal housework kinds of things; being a wife and companion; etc. etc. etc.

Needless to say, I have not had much time to read, rate or even write. So, instead I worry. I worry because my list of people that trusts me flucuates (probably because I don't read and rate as much); I worry because I'm afraid that they will do the advisor picks again before I have a chance to read/rate numerous reviews in my category and I'll lose my hat (maybe not a big thing anymore but I am still kind of proud of it and while wearing my "rose colored glasses" even imagine that they might someday make it worth my while I worry because I don't want the terrific writers that I love to read to think that I don't "want" to read their reviews anymore.

So I add stress to my stress.

Are the rest of you better able to remain stress free from these kinds of epinions issues or do you force yourself to keep up with it all even during busy personal times?


Sandy Who's Playing Her Whiney Violin

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[pluckyduck]

I'm so crazy, I worry when I don't have enough time for EA...which is my priority before Epinions.

I clicked on the board just a minute ago....feeling stressed because I'm "behind".

Yeah, I just worry.

Andrea
who has to go! too much going on!

[Dani257]

I worry, too. I worry when I go more than a week without writing a review. I worry when I haven't rated anyone in ages. I worry that my royalties will never get back up to 10 dollars again.

I just want to add that I also worry when I start getting H ratings. (Funny, coming from a person who's been screaming about how H's aren't bad ratings) But, I keep thinking the next review will be all H's, and good or not, that would be a drop in the quality of my writing. Then I slap myself back into reality, and say it's just one H. If I start getting all SH's or NH's, then I'll panic.

[pearman]

I haven't really had any time to post Epinions lately either. However, I'm not an advisor or anything, so I'm not worried too much. Also, the fact that money still flows in while I'm not doing anything keeps me happy, even if it's less than a dollar a day. I use that as my "motivation". Even though it's only a couple of dollars, it is still a good way to make me not worry about not being able to post.

Try to find something that helps you feel okay with your not posting. Or maybe just take a couple of weeks off and promise yourself not to visit the site, and to keep it off your mind.

Oh, and good luck with everything in "real life"

[rich2003dm]

The only time I worry is when Epinions starts to intrude upon my real life. Then I step back.

Epinions is supposed to be fun and a break from the pressures of real life. That's the way I try to keep it.

Whenever I start to take things too seriously here, I remind myself that this is only a website.

Rich

[soxfan[$]]

I used to worry more, but in the past few months I had to scale back quite a lot, and now I find I don't stress about it as much as I used to. When I'm on Epinions, I still take it seriously, but it doesn't really spill over into real life anymore.

EA, though, is another matter.

Ailsa

[jenninca]

For the past month, I have been about as stressed as I've ever been in my life. I've been trying to deal with my, um, less-than-perfect class, trying to find a new job halfway across the country, trying to find an apartment halfway across the country, trying to find a mover to move my stuff halfway across the country, and trying to sort through everything I've ever owned so I don't have to take so much of it halfway across the country. I realized just how stressed I was until my kids got in major trouble at school one day, I tried to send a note home about it, and the education consultant asked me to revise it before I sent it. My reaction? I burst into tears!

Fortunately, now I have a job, I ALMOST have an apartment, and I just have four teacher work days left and then I am DONE with this school. So the stress is starting to subside a little bit.

Anyway, back to the question. I think I was a little stressed about not keeping up with Epinions, but probably just because it was something I could add on to my mental list of things to be stressed about! I guess I didn't worry too much, though, because I've got a bunch of reviews saved up and have been posting those. But I'm going to run out of those sometime, so then I can add writing new reviews to my list of things to be stressed about!

Cindy
who will be much better in two months

About Epinions? Now?

I'm under enormous pressure right now. Four weeks ago, I was started on a death march with a $45,000 software package, a computer with a processor that is 100 MHz under the "minimum requirement" and 400 MHz under the "suggested requirement", and two days training. The software is horrible, and if Epinions listed something like that in its database, I would FIND the time to review it! It's complicated and unstable, and if you want to do anything useful, you have to buy "extras" which are also complicated and hard to install.

On Tuesday, we're supposed to have a completely functional site up and running with this software. I was at work yesterday from 6:30 AM until 12:30 AM. Yeah... you got it. Long day.

I just woke up. I'm here because I just need something that has nothing to do with work (which is WAY too demanding right now) and home requires me to actually function. (I just can't deal with the dishes and the cleaning at this very moment, thanks.)

I squeeze in time for Epinions and EA while I'm waiting for systems to reboot, software to compile, or programs to load. (Did I mention that this crap software requires 1 GIG of memory??? And that even my new system doesn't have that???)

If I feel stressed about Epinions at all, it's that I can't take all of those little two minute breaks, hoard them up, and use them to get an hour with my daughter.

Stressed about Epinions? Nah! I have real life for that.

Heh

Not exactly. Oddly enough, most of my Trusters are either loyal or gone right now. I post between once every couple months and a few have been a couple days apart. My hits are mediocre and I really do need to post regularly to get them up but I can't post at all right now. I just moved to Seattle and the libraries have a 45 minute time limit and so I don't really have the time to write a review (unless I put it into Draft form or do something odd like that). I haven't gotten my phone hooked up... I have seen a few movies that I would really like to review but can't review them right now... I figure it isn't bad for me but would kinda like to be able to write the reviews anyhow

So basically no I don't worry about people not reading my reviews because of my inaction (at least no more than usual ) I would rather have more time to read and rate though (or at least read--I have a bunch of reviews I want to read!)

Ander