Role Conflict Analysis Paper

I have dealt with both role conflict an role strain throughout my life and never knew the distinction between the two until recently. A role strain is when one or more expectations from a single status becomes too much for that person to handle and they are not capable to complete them. A role strain I've experienced is with my status as a employee as a File Clerk; it requires me to pick up case files for cases that are settled and no longer active, the files are entered into a data storage system and placed on a work order to be picked up and shipped off for long term storage. It takes any where from 20 minutes to 3 hours to put one case into the data system, the case files are placed in a bankers box and an average case is about six boxes.
The process requires me to move boxes to a storage room to make space for new case files of active cases, the storage room houses up to 400 boxes. This past November I had 250 boxes to be closed and sent to off-site in storage and needed to pick over 300 boxes that were recently closed and need to be sent off to storage. I was getting more boxes in than out, and was not able to meet all the expectations that were required for me to do my job correctly. A possible way of Avoiding this is that I could come in on the weekend to finish entering the files into the data system and have them ready to be sent off quicker to have more room for incoming files. A role conflict is when the role demands of one status held by one person effect the role performance of another status held by that person. A role conflict I deal with constantly is between my status as a student and my status as a employee. The expectations as a student bleed into every aspect of my life, specifically work. Often I must choose which role performance must suffer in order to ensure that my role demand of the other status is