Every two weeks, we're required to stay a hour and a half past our usual closing time for those students unable to call us during our 8 - 4:30 office hours. It's not a horrible thing, but it does make for a longer day than the rest. Tonight was mine, being that one of my co-workers took today as paid vacation time - she'll work tomorrow night, I worked tonight.
I think the hardest part of my day is the commute. It goes about thirty (if I'm lucky) to forty-five minutes (moderate to hair-pulling traffic), sometimes upping to a hour (cue hitting my head against the steering wheel in time with some music) when it's later. Tonight was the last kind of commute, where I left the office by six and didn't return home until seven. Exhausted? Definitely.
But I had a good day. A good, solid day where I was included in a meeting with the marketing department (to my surprise, and that of my supervisors) and had the chance to contribute things that I know made a difference. When the company CEO looks at you and says she's pleased, you know that she wouldn't just say that to make someone feel better. No, she's not that way. I contributed today, and I felt good. Add in that I took someone's negative situation and turned it into a positive, and I think I did all right today.
I've definitely earned my sleep.