#further questions/clarifications/anything else is more than welcome 🩵🩵🩵

[shalom-iamcominghome]

How do you juggle work, school, AND conversion?? I want to get started on my conversion and have made steps to, but it feels nearly impossible when i have almost no days off :( how do you do it??

So, I'm not sure how helpful this is, but I have found that having a flexible job and having to commute to school and shul to be helpful.

I've had shabbos off for the longest time and will have to take off time for my weekly classes for conversion. I've had to significantly reduce my workload because of college, so getting on financial aid was pretty much inevitable. I have to commute to school and shul about forty-five minutes each way, and weirdly enough, it helps me. It definitely forces me to make the most out of all the time I spend to do this.

I'd really say that having a strong community and people you can talk to is imperative. I really hope you either have or will have a rabbi who can work with you for your schedule - my rabbi lives over two hours away, and he's still talking about making plans to have coffee or hike to talk.

I hope this answer might have given you some ideas - I've planned my schedule almost completely around my education, and I treat my conversion as an extension of my college career. In that sense, I guess I never thought of it as "juggling," so I'm really worried that I might not have the best advice for you, especially because we most likely have vastly different workloads and education and whatnot. If anything, I just hope you take out of this that you are welcome to speak with me, and I hope hope hope you have or will find a community that really makes you feel welcomed and loved. Sometimes, even that small blessing makes it easier