Light at the end of the Tunnel
For those who have spoken with me briefly or who read my earlier post know that I'm swamped with work. I've been working roughly 10-14 hour days about 7 days a week since about the end of January or so hence my absence in a lot of the raids. I've had a few friends call me crazy for doing that sort of work when I get no real extra pay for it since I'm salary but I truly can't help myself. I work from home so it's not like I have a communite...I just roll out of bed and VPN into the work server to do my thing.
The site must launch before March 20th. In fact next Friday is my deadline for having this project completed and this project has been wracked by stress and unforseen things.
1. Because of my close living proximity to the customer I've been the liason with the customer, holding their hand etc.
2. The folks hired to take my direction in converting the website have 0 experience with HTML let alone web standards, what looks good etc.
3. Because of the lack of people I've taken on several roles at once as teacher, coordinator, liason, programmer and all and all am the one driving this dog and pony show. While my boss makes final decisions he's too busy with other projects to really do what I've been doing.
These three hats have been very taxing on me emotionally causing more stress for such an "easy" project given the tight deadline and the lack of competent help. In fact without me this project would of been doomed because I've put a lot of personal time and energy into making sure that we make our deadlines no matter what the sacrifice. I can't help myself even knowing that I will see no other compensation for what I've sweated over it's a matter of honor and integrity that I deliver what I set out to do.
That being said... a little over a week and it's nearly done. The stress will be over and it'll be all downhill from there and then maybe I can establish a new routine. My boss today told me that I've made a real impression on him and he wants to make sure that he finds me more permanent employment once this contract is over. He's doing his best to make sure I don't turn to another company but today at lunch I pretty much told him that while I'm not actively looking yet I would once the meat of the project is finalized if he had no other prospects. As much as I enjoyed working with them I have to make sure I can keep a roof over my head and food on the table.
I always have enjoyed a good challenge though .... and I have to say that this project was a surprising one. Simple in concept proved rough in execution with time constraints, training requirements and much more.
The site must launch before March 20th. In fact next Friday is my deadline for having this project completed and this project has been wracked by stress and unforseen things.
1. Because of my close living proximity to the customer I've been the liason with the customer, holding their hand etc.
2. The folks hired to take my direction in converting the website have 0 experience with HTML let alone web standards, what looks good etc.
3. Because of the lack of people I've taken on several roles at once as teacher, coordinator, liason, programmer and all and all am the one driving this dog and pony show. While my boss makes final decisions he's too busy with other projects to really do what I've been doing.
These three hats have been very taxing on me emotionally causing more stress for such an "easy" project given the tight deadline and the lack of competent help. In fact without me this project would of been doomed because I've put a lot of personal time and energy into making sure that we make our deadlines no matter what the sacrifice. I can't help myself even knowing that I will see no other compensation for what I've sweated over it's a matter of honor and integrity that I deliver what I set out to do.
That being said... a little over a week and it's nearly done. The stress will be over and it'll be all downhill from there and then maybe I can establish a new routine. My boss today told me that I've made a real impression on him and he wants to make sure that he finds me more permanent employment once this contract is over. He's doing his best to make sure I don't turn to another company but today at lunch I pretty much told him that while I'm not actively looking yet I would once the meat of the project is finalized if he had no other prospects. As much as I enjoyed working with them I have to make sure I can keep a roof over my head and food on the table.
I always have enjoyed a good challenge though .... and I have to say that this project was a surprising one. Simple in concept proved rough in execution with time constraints, training requirements and much more.