Thoughts on Technical Writing Class

As a college student taking technical writing I honestly feel overwhelmed. The course is more involved and detailed than I had expected but I am learning quite a bit which is the point. I feel stressed at times due to the amount of time and preparation that must be spent on the projects/assignments. The toughest part for me so far has been managing the time to complete the assigned tasks and still performing well in my other courses and working full time. I am taking this course as a requirement towards the fire science associates degree. I feel that this course will not yet benefit me where I am in my career at this point but do think it will be beneficial to me as I hopefully promote some day. After just two weeks of being in this course I am becoming nervous since we will begin working on an e-portfolio soon along with several other tasks. Technical writing has been a tough course so far due to the required time that must be spent in completing the different assignments and projects. I feel that because it's an online course it makes it a little more difficult than it would be in a traditional classroom setting.