Thursday, July 21, 2005
Long hours, little return
It's been a strange week. This blog has been a little hit-and-miss lately due to having projects last late into the night on several nights. Plus, I've been seeing the pile of work that I needed to attend to growing to the point where on several occasions this week I was seriously thinking of putting it on eBay as a mystery auction—"Evil pile of work threatening to destroy my life! Help me restore peace and sanity."
Unfortunately for those visions of joining my son Jon in the area of mystery auctions, I actually needed the notes and ebooks that made up my pile. And who in their right mind would buy a pile of work from someone else? (Although, if Jon could successfully sell his shadow on eBay a couple of weeks ago...)
Well, at any rate, instead of selling the ominously growing pile, I managed to cut it down to size today. However, getting an out-of-control backlog of filing and reading out of the way may help assuage that nagging sense of being overwhelmed for the time being, but it sure doesn't pay any bills.
Even the billable work I did today was organizational in nature, cleaning up a client's link databases. But that, at least, DOES pay the bills, for which I am grateful.
Jeff
It's been a strange week. This blog has been a little hit-and-miss lately due to having projects last late into the night on several nights. Plus, I've been seeing the pile of work that I needed to attend to growing to the point where on several occasions this week I was seriously thinking of putting it on eBay as a mystery auction—"Evil pile of work threatening to destroy my life! Help me restore peace and sanity."
Unfortunately for those visions of joining my son Jon in the area of mystery auctions, I actually needed the notes and ebooks that made up my pile. And who in their right mind would buy a pile of work from someone else? (Although, if Jon could successfully sell his shadow on eBay a couple of weeks ago...)
Well, at any rate, instead of selling the ominously growing pile, I managed to cut it down to size today. However, getting an out-of-control backlog of filing and reading out of the way may help assuage that nagging sense of being overwhelmed for the time being, but it sure doesn't pay any bills.
Even the billable work I did today was organizational in nature, cleaning up a client's link databases. But that, at least, DOES pay the bills, for which I am grateful.
Jeff
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