I just wanted to bring up a subject close to my heart. You know the saying about being in a city of 10 million people and being alone...at times I feel like innkeeping is this way. People come and go, daily, we are so busy we can't think, but at the same time we are isolated. Even within our own family and/or marriage there is a gaping hole where we have to be "on" all the time and acting the part, you know the one - where innkeeping is the greatest thing since sliced bread...it is just ALL fun.
We do have comradery here on the forum - thank goodness for the forum where others understand our day-to-days moreso than those living in and around us.
I guess at times I just feel like this IS a life sentence and there is no way out, not for a long time anyway. I feel like it consumes me. It fills my every waking thought.
But we plug along, just longing for a day to do nothing. Last night eating dinner was nice and I said aloud, You know, I wonder what it is like at the end of the day to just BE and not have to be ON and be something to/for someone else. Other jobs have that, at the end of the work day...we never have that. Yes we have the satisfaction of making guests happy - we strive toward that as the end all in this business. But as soon as we clean a room and make the bed we need to do it all over again. Maybe I am too goal orientated, wanting completion of a task more than doing the mundane day in and day out and repeating it like working on an assembly line.
I am not depressed. Just some thoughts I had today and wanted to share with you, as some of you are feeling the same way and I wanted you to know we understand, truly we do. We're all in this together.
Keep your stick on the ice.
We do have comradery here on the forum - thank goodness for the forum where others understand our day-to-days moreso than those living in and around us.
I guess at times I just feel like this IS a life sentence and there is no way out, not for a long time anyway. I feel like it consumes me. It fills my every waking thought.
But we plug along, just longing for a day to do nothing. Last night eating dinner was nice and I said aloud, You know, I wonder what it is like at the end of the day to just BE and not have to be ON and be something to/for someone else. Other jobs have that, at the end of the work day...we never have that. Yes we have the satisfaction of making guests happy - we strive toward that as the end all in this business. But as soon as we clean a room and make the bed we need to do it all over again. Maybe I am too goal orientated, wanting completion of a task more than doing the mundane day in and day out and repeating it like working on an assembly line.
I am not depressed. Just some thoughts I had today and wanted to share with you, as some of you are feeling the same way and I wanted you to know we understand, truly we do. We're all in this together.
Keep your stick on the ice.