Balancing Adult Responsibilities: Work, Volunteering, and Study

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Since beginning Penn Foster, it has been a challenge to balance out all my reasonability’s as an adult. From working 40 hours a week at my local Walmart, to volunteering a few hours of each day at my local SPCA. My life is full of chaos. I rarely get any “me” time and when I do I am trying to finish up my assignments. Working at Walmart is not really stressful, granted we are a very high volume store but all I really do is stock shelves, and assist customers when needed. The stressful part becomes before I actually make any money. My Walmart schedule is 1 pm till 10 pm. So bright and early, 8 am I am up on my way to the Thankfully, I am not the only volunteer there but when you have anywhere to 50 - 100 cats and 30 - 200 dogs it becomes very loud and stressful. As you can probably tell we aren’t a small recuse, the reason we are so over populated is because we are the only shelter that takes in bully dogs. But volunteering with the actual organization is not the only way I give my time to them, at least once a month I also volunteer at charity events sponsored by the SPCA. Through all of that I still have not made it home yet, when I arrive home around 10:15 most nights. I come home to an lonely apartment with my two cats Angel, and Sammie and my dog Ringo. It won’t be till around 3 am till my boyfriend Aaron gets off work. So even after my “job” is done I start a new one by walking and feeding Ringo, and making sure the cats have a clean litter box and they are also fed and watered. I begin to make something small for dinner and place his in the microwave for when he gets home. So finally off to bed I go! And to bed I mean to sit in my bed as

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