and on the 26th day, there was rest
Posted in General on 04/06/2007 09:17 am by kat26 days ago, I went to work. From then until today, I was either on 1st shift or 3rd shift every day. I feel like I never really left work, especially when my pager went off even when I was at home. I’m exhausted, but my first formal software test that I planned from the very start to the very end has finally finished. This is the culmination of 2 years of my work. I feel this strange since of relief and a burden being lifted from my shoulders. Now I just have to remember what it’s like to sit at my desk instead of in the lab on Monday.
April 6th, 2007 at 10:16 am
Ouch. Glad it’s finally over for ya. Congrats!
April 7th, 2007 at 11:04 am
What I want to know is why you’ll be at work on Monday instead of in, say, Cancún.
April 7th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
I’m glad you’ve gotten some time off now. And ditto what Geof said. At least kill off a couple of bottles of wine.
April 9th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
On Saturday I killed a couple pints of Guinness. That’s about it. I’ve been too tired this weekend to drink. Then again, I’ve been too tired because I’ve been having fun racing.
Oh, and I’ll be at work on Monday because our program refuses to admit that testing is understaffed and I’m once more behind schedule. *sigh* I swear I’ll take a break soon. I just don’t know when yet.
April 9th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Admittedly, this is potkettleblack, but Katharine, you better slow down.
April 12th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
Wow. You called me Katharine. Only my parents call me that. And, yes, I know I need to slow down. Right now I’m this catch-22 of “if I don’t really push myself, I won’t get a good raise next year, but then again, my raise wasn’t that great this year, so why push myself for next year?” I have a meeting with my boss tomorrow and hopefully something will come out of it. I’m leaving my options open at this point, because if I don’t keep pushing myself, my job won’t get done.
April 13th, 2007 at 5:02 am
I wanted your attention and I got it!
And there are other things that have value in a whole-job compensation package than monetary rewards. I may feel like you’re not getting enough of the other, and that may frustrate me as someone who is curious about management philosophies, but it has a far more direct effect on you, obviously.