wear too many hats
Juggle excessive roles
To wear too many hats is to hold too many roles or responsibilities at once, stretching yourself thin across competing demands.
The phrase extends from the expression wear many hats, meaning to fulfill multiple functions: She wears many hats—teacher, coach, and department chair.
Adding "too" signals the burden has become excessive: He's wearing too many hats and something's going to slip.
- jack of all tradesSkilled broadly, not deeply
- spread oneself thinCommit beyond one's capacity
- multitaskerOne handling multiple duties
- spinning platesBalancing rotating dishes aloft
- jugglerMulti-object thrower-catcher
overextended · burdened · delegation · overcommitment · overwhelmed · generalist · swamped · prioritization · burning the candle · burnout · running on fumes · preoccupied · stretched · one-man band · chief cook and bottle washer · overworked · strained · polymath