You're not alone Kyle. When I was Director Of Marketing and sitting at my main office at the dealership, it was difficult to get anything done. Phone calls (unimportant), people coming asking if I could fix something (Really?) and all the day to day distractions that happen at the typical dealership that prevents even sales people from being productive.
Sounds not entirely unlike my day (less so on those lovely rare occasions that our IT staff is onsite).
The productivity challenges spill over to other things too. Over the past year or so, I've started doing a smidgeon of work for our other stores (three other stores use a daily update Excel workbook I created). When I took vacation time to mentor my FIRST Robotics team at their regional events, I kept getting calls on my cell phone from unknowing managers and staff at the other stores trying to ask me questions. Finally, I changed my voicemail greeting:
"Hi, this is Billfred. I'm at the FIRST Robotics Competition Peachtree Regional until Saturday, so if you need me for work,
don't. Otherwise, please leave a message after the beep. Thanks."
Sure enough, the calls ended soon after. For the Championship last week in St. Louis (the finals happened during that tornado--we could hear the hail coming down hard on the Edward Jones Dome roof), I took things a step further: I learned how to shut my work email off on my phone. It's been liberating!
I haven't gotten the "part time" jabs in a few years--as an hourly person, it kinda fades out--but even still I'm careful to keep that work/life balance. (Or, in my case, work/robots/life balance. The extra 15-20 hours a week during build season can take its toll if you're not careful.)