I guess I mainly needed to vent.

We've all met with the boss one-on-one. In fact, we have one-on-ones every other week. He hasn't had time lately though. He asked us at the last staff meeting if the overtime we are getting paid for was making us happy even though we had less free time. Yeah, guess what we told him.

I really love my job and I don't think I could find something I would like better. On top of that I think it would be hard to find a job seeing as I am 60 years old and too near retirement. I also have 5 weeks of vacation now that would be hard to give up. I could afford to retire now if I could get medical insurance. Unfortunately, I have pre-existing conditions that prospective private insurers always find a reason not to insure me.

I am very fortunate to have an understanding Significant Other.I have no one else at home either. One of my co-workers is 27 with four children and a husband. It is hitting them pretty hard. And she hates the job. We have kind of flex time and she is killing herself with weird hours so she can have time with her family.

So I guess I will have to hang there for the next five years. Maybe, like he says, we will get caught up. He actually asked us if we could take on some more responsibility from another department. He wasn't too happy when said, "NO"!

I worked another 4 hours OT today. Ugh.