return to shit

I knew it was too good to last. I'm back to barely working more than 25 hours a week. And all the other aspects of my life that I thought were getting better are also back to the same horrific shitty status they were before. Nothing has changed.

feast or famine

I've actually been BUSY since 2010 started. In fact, my last paycheck was the biggest I've gotten since moving up here. Two 40 hour weeks plus overtime on both weeks. This week has slowed down a bit, but that's OK. It gave me time to go to the accountant to file our taxes and run some errands.

I'm glad that I've been busy but I do have complaints.

1) it's not predictable: there is no way to tell if this is just a blip on the radar or the beginning of a trend.

2) a lot of it is unnecessary: I just wish people could evaluate their "emergencies" with a little more objectivity. Having to drop what I'm doing at one location to go help a frantic user who didn't know to click on the OK button (he couldn't read the non-alert message to me over the phone) is wasting my time and everyone else's.

3) real emergencies piled up and surfaced at the same time: If people had let me do the maintenance I recommended to them 6 months ago, their computers wouldn't have gone belly up today. I can't manage my time when everyone has emergencies all on the same day (real or imagined)

4) "feast or famine" isn't an exaggeration: I'm either sitting around with my thumb up my nose waiting for the phone to ring or I'm busting my ass so much I don't have time to eat or take a shit. I need some stability in my life. Is a little bit of predictability too much to ask for in my life?

That's the nature of the business though.