Mental Health Coping Strategy #4
Number four, prioritize your work-life balance. This one, especially with some of the points on here, may seem hard or, or downright impossible. Because of the nature of our jobs, we have to take on-call. There is no on-call solution. There's not. If you work in multifamily maintenance, somebody is on call.
You may not be, but someone is, and if you're a supervisor. Or any type of, like, if you work on a property with three or four people, maybe you rotate every week, every two weeks. But if you're a supervisor or above, you're kind of always on call and you, you hope your phone never rings because if it's getting to you, that means it's really bad.
But prioritizing your work life balance, establishing boundaries for overtime, uh, and on-call availability when possible. If you are a supervisor and you are always on call. Talk to your manager and negotiate a weekend that says, Hey, I need to not be the emergency backup for, give me a weekend, give me two nights, three nights, whatever.
It's that I can just turn my phone off and be with my family, or go camping or go fishing or play golf. Whatever it is you like to do. So establishing boundaries for overtime, again, that, that might be hard. The on-call stuff might be hard. It might be difficult because we, we are in a service industry. If an emergency happens, we, we, we have to take care of it.
But try to figure out a way to get you those two or three nights of. If you have a sister property where somebody who's already on call and then maybe you return the favor, okay. You know, many hands make light work, uh, kind of thing. So other people help you. So you help them and in, in their time of need or what, whatever it is that, that they're specifically asking for, be, be, give back.
So again, that may be hard, that may take some time, that may take some type of, uh, work to get it figured out, but there's a solution. If there is a solution out there, you just might have to get creative about finding it, but there's one out there.
