Stressed Out

These past weeks have been crazy. No, no details. I finally get to take part in a nice project – and it’s only a 30% job. Bah. I notice, however, that I am in serious need of vacation. This may sound dumb or something, but I feel very, very burnt-out. Doesn’t help that for the past 1.5 years I bought virtually nothing geeky with my hard-earned cash.

HR discovered there was a bug with my time track profile. In short, I didn’t have any of the normal limits set. I am not sure how many hours my boss will have to get me back after they’re done with it. For November alone it should be 7.5 hours. Right now I have 3 over the limit of 40. That means: December 2003 is the first month I got over 50 hours of accumulated overtime. I try to keep my overtime in check. Really, I try. But it’s simply impossible.

Got home past 9pm on two days; took pretty much no lunch break all week (yeah, yeah, I know, I know, that’s illegal. If anybody asks: I am spending my lunch break on my way home). Had two days of serious arguments with my boss and coworkers this week. This adds a lot to the burnout. I hate it. I guess in the end neither they nor I were completely right. As I said, I need a break.

About Nils

By day, Nils Jeppe is a 37 years old service- and project manager in the IT industry. By night, his secret identity as a world builder, writer, and cartographer is revealed and his feverish imagination roams the multiverse in search of interesting worlds that he then documents on his blog, Enderra.com. You can follow Nils on Twitter.
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