hi everyone. i've been stuck in my own head for a while now so i would really love some thoughts and opinions on my current situation bcs i am completely burnt out.
for the last year i have been wanting a change in my work/life balance. i currently work at a manufacturing shop making good money for myself. i have no kids but i do have a wonderful gf. the problem is that i work 10 hours a day (7am-5:30) on top of that i commute to work. it takes about 45 mins to get to work and about an hour and 25 mins to get home from work bc of awful traffic. i try to not complain bc the work doesnt follow me home and i have weekends 100% off. my weekends feel like they dont even exist sometimes bc i just spend it staying home resting with my gf trying to prepare myself for yet again another 50 hour work week. i feel like my life is a bad song on repeat and im not sure how much longer i can go before i break.
for more than a year now i have been applying to similar places to where i work now but A LOT closer to home. im talking like 5 minute drive to and from work. the problem is that i have gotten very few call backs that rarely turn into interviews but nothing comes after it. i try and stay with being persistant in reapplying time and time again to the same positions and same places when ever i get a “thanks but no thanks call or email” im at the point where im super fed up with not having any luck getting a job in the same industry that im in now so i recently started applying to just randomest of places. i got a call back last week for a office job place that sounds decent and even interviewed for the position. it would take about 7 mins to get to work and back home which sounds lovely and i would be working 40 hours a week instead of 50 … the only problem is that i would have to give up my current pay and my guranteed weekends to work closer to home. i really dont want to sacrifice my weekends. i dont mind the less pay since that is not an issue but the weekends help me alot. idk what i should do.