Full time work, part time study balance. (Or lack thereof)

Full time work, part time study balance. (Or lack thereof)

Before xmas I had the thought that I would keep up my MA work over the break. To this end I planed a trip to N.Ireland from the 17th – 21st. So I travelled over the day after finishing work, relaxed at my parents house for a day and then set off in the car with cameras and Kit to get aerial footage around the coast and over the border. After two days of mediocre results I realised that the reason for this was that I was mentally quite tired from the previous three months of working full time and also doing this MA course. So I Decided that Xmas and New Year should be a time of recuperation and rest, and thought that I would take two weeks away from studies. The only problem with this is that I have found it very hard to become re-motivated in January as I have now returned to work where I’m teaching digital workshops every day all day for the first 2 1/2 weeks, and feeling pretty wiped out at the end of the working day and week. I remember that this was also a hard time last year for me to get the balance right, but with it being the final year there is the extra pressure of limited time, and I had planed to have a lot more organised by now, like free access to archival footage that I need for my work. I do have a good days footage from my N.Ireland trip that I want to try to merge with my extracted figure from the archive material, so this will be my starting point, along with a timetable for the whole of unit 4. I’m just hoping I can get the scales to balance again.