Other Lives

I feel like I live more than one life. Maybe I have a split personality! During the day I work as a mild mannered techno-librarian for a major theological enterprise. Then at night I totally switch gears and work for a "start-up" pet care company both in the corporate sense and owning a franchise of my own. I am also a partner, a parent, a church goer, and the list goes on. How many others have such fractured lives? Are we all just going hell bent through the world trying to get everything done?

I got to work this morning and as in all things, it was the first day of the second semester. Under the rubric of "if it can go wrong, it will" something broke in my computer classroom, people were lost and couldn't find their course schedules, technical issues with computers being down raged... It was all in a day's work, or is it? Does the helter-skelter frenzy of my personal life just naturally feed into my work life or is it visa versa? Is this a symptom or a sign of what others are going through? I don't remember my parents being this crazed when I was a kid.

All of this leads me to the issue of multi-tasking. How much is too much? Last week I saw a great YouTube video on a vision of college students today. Click here to see the video for yourself. It made me wonder if we are creating generations of stressed out, burned out people who can only function if they are multi-tasking. Something to ponder... I just don't know.