\nHad a very busy week at work, thus no blog posts during the week. Next week will probably be no different.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe project’s phase-1 code cutoff coincides with my last day at work (this coming Friday), which makes it a very firm deadline for me. And there’s so much still to do! If it was just code cutoff, then I’d know that I can still fix small things during the QA period – but now I won’t be there and it would be a lot harder for someone else to fix anything that I left broken. And if it was just me leaving, then of course there wouldn’t be as much pressure on the project itself.\n<\/p>\n
\nI don’t think I’ve ever worked as intensely as I’ve done these past two weeks. I’ve worked longer hours, sure – and even longer hours for a longer period. Stretches of 55- or 60-hour weeks weren’t that unusual in Commodities. But then that was a different kind of job: I might work on a presentation in the morning, then do some pricing or modelling, talk to clients, talk to middle office to fix some problem with a trade, then go back to working on the presentation. Now I’m sitting and coding and debugging all day, and that takes a different kind of concentration.\n<\/p>\n
\nBy the time I get home in the evening, I feel completely flattened and squeezed out. Not so much physically – I get home at a reasonable hour, and get all the sleep I need – but mentally. Sit in the sofa and re-read some familiar comfortable book, or see an easy movie. If we had a TV I’d probably spend all evening zapping mindlessly between channels. (So it’s a good thing we haven’t got one.)\n<\/p>\n
\nI’ve only got one more week left at work and still so much to do… On the other hand, since it’s only one more week, I know I can keep this pace up without having to pay for it later. Then I get 2 weeks at home, and if my brain is tired and not good for much more than watching TV, it doesn’t really matter at all.\n<\/p>\n
\nI’m actually going to quietly sneak in to the office for half a day tomorrow, to knock some more items off my to do list – and then just pretend I had a very very productive day on Monday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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