Who Knew?

Since my days and nights are in reverse right now I thought nothing about sending an email to work IT helpdesk in response to an earlier email I received in the day. A few hours later I thought about sending out another email to someone else and noticed I received an email directly from someone working in the IT department. He wanted to know if this can be taken care of during business hours and that I should not be sending the messages directly to his email. Since sending a reply now would only further upset this person it will have to wait. Who knew an email sent to the IT helpdesk would elicit a response from someone in the department 24/7? I will have to make it a point to send my apologies to him tomorrow. While I would like to write up the email now for me to send later, I am afraid I will accidentally send it out tonight.

I guess from now on, only send work emails to people during business hours. You never know if they are carrying a blackberry and will be buzzed about the email immediately.

The Good Ol' Days

I really do miss the days of loving my job. Working on the weekends is no fun, especially since I was not planning on working. I guess this too shall pass. I can only hope to have another job that I truly enjoy. Until then, I need to trudge through the rat race and try to keep my head above water.

What would make my day smoother?

I awoke this morning in a great mood after a good night's sleep and pleasant dreams. However as the day went on I was feeling more drained from my job. The amount of work will take longer than the time I can clock in for the week. I cannot work overtime, so I guess I need to only put in the hours that for the week and anything extra will have to wait.

While that will be great, I also think that I need to do something to get myself in a better mood to handle the stresses related to my job. What can I do to start my morning off on a better foot? I have not had the time to organize my to do list for the following day. Perhaps I need to get into work a little earlier to help me get a few things organized before the barrage of other to do's pop up.

Something to think about while I work on my homework.

Work...

Somewhere along the way, a shift occurred. It used to be fun and I enjoyed what I did, but now it is just work and that makes me sad. On the bright side, I start a new job tomorrow. On the flip side, I am nervous and somewhat dreading going into the new place tomorrow. Is that bad? Perhaps. Or, it could just be the new job jitters. Will I do a good job? Will the people like me? Will I like the job and other tasks that I need to do? Ugh!

On top of all that, I have work that I need to do today to prep for my first day as the new kid on the block. I really should have put my foot down and did the work this morning instead of waiting until after 3pm on a Sunday to start the work.

"Crack" time for me to get to work.

This month is flying by....

It is hard to believe that tomorrow will be the 15th of the month. Where has the time gone?

I have been working an insane amount of hours at my job, so last week was just a blur. Between my job and a class to broaden my mind on a Saturday morning, I was just about at the end of my rope on Sunday. Luckily I had some time during work yesterday to get out into the beautiful sunshine and run a few errands in town after lunch. Yes, I do have a day job. However I have seen many others 'run into town' whether it be on lunch break or not so I realized it was up to me to take back some of my time and not live like a crazy person. It was so nice working 9-6 yesterday with some outdoor time.

I do hope today is another relaxing (if that ever is a word that can be associated with work) day.

On other creative news, I am beginning to day dream about my portfolio. It is time to start picking my favorites and putting them in one location. I might even use some of the photos posted here to jump start my favorites club. Perhaps I will start posting my favs here and see what the world thinks.

Enjoy your Wednesday!

Work - it can be a killer on your personal life

I am currently struggling finding a nice balance between work, home, and fun. And as everyone in the rat race knows - there isn't a balance since most people spend over 40+hours a week at work. Add to that total the commuting time and getting ready for work (guys have it so easy) and that is a large chunk of the day. Then running around on the weekends with everyone else in a major city trying to get your errands done as well as head some where cool to catch something fun is always a race.

Currently I have a mountain of work to do before crashing, yet I had to cook dinner and clean up before I could get started on work. I do better if I have more sleep, but I also need to clean up tonight as I didn't do it on the weekend.

For me, every week is something crazy happening in my life. Today - server crash at work. How am I supposed to get the information I need to chat with my clients if the server is down. Plus the temporary fix is even slower than the slow server we have.

I stress out about my job because I fear I will loose it, yet several people are telling me that it is ok if I do not get it all done. The work will be there tomorrow. "If you get all the work done, the boss will just give you more work to do." Uh, isn't that the point (to some degree)?

CRACK - back to work with me.