It's too much, it's too little.
Like many others out there in the blogosphere, my job is feast or famine. At five or six points in my career, after months without a day off I've hit total burnout and seriously thought about just giving it up. I run into a problem though. I can't think of anything else I'd rather do. Well I can, but I'm not willing to go back to the "lifestyle" I had at 23. Saltines and peanut butter are not a fave of mine for dinner anymore.
Today, I had zip to do at work. My project is still viable, but in a holding pattern at the moment. I feel like I've been in a waiting room all day. All Day. Allll freaking DAY.
So I find myself at the end of one of the lower stress days I've had in the last 30 years,
and I am dainbread.
I usually leave work late to let the traffic dissipate. Today, driving stop and go, bumper to bumper traffic was preferable to another minute at my desk. An hour and a half of s&g btb traffic.
SOOoooo..how was your day?
Sat at my computer all day and tried to get HEC-RAS to cooperate. It didn't. But it was nice after two tiring days outside in the sun.
ReplyDeleteSo, did your lily white Irish skin turn pink? :-)
DeleteIt was actually cloudy enough that I was fine! And dusty enough that I turned grimy.
DeleteAnd, ooh, I get to go out again tomorrow!
I machined half an AR15 receiver and didn't break anything. It was a good day.
ReplyDeletecompared to your post from the other day, I'd say that was a marked improvement. Much less expensive as well.
DeleteI am jealous of Theredneckengineer.
ReplyDeleteFor the past week I have been trying to fix a problem with a new application deployment.
Between SQL Permisions, The Produciton server not behaving the same as test or QA environments. Missing Security Profile items, Missing App Security permissions. Along with a bug in the error logging so it doesn't give me the real error. I would trade for a day to breath in a second.
On top of this I ran a D.R. failover drill this weekend.
I need a vacation. At lease I have one scheduled for the first 3 days of next week. IF I can get this stuff fixed.
Oh did I metion that I am also trying to figure out what on earth another employee doing work for he is doing with his invoicing calculation process on a different new system.
If I have any hair left by the end of the week I will be surprised.
oooh. Sequel Server Voo Doo. That's some bad juju rat thar. And you are all virtualized 'n stuff too.
DeleteI suggest taking a 24" long breaker bar and just beating the living shit out of it.
Then, get a new one.