| What a week! Having not clocked more than a dozen hours sleep since last Saturday and constantly working, I’m pretty shattered and thankful the weekend is here. I started my new job at Zero5Media on Monday, and have been pretty bogged down working on www.sellstudentbooks.co.uk with them. It’s definitely a place to look into if you’ve got second hand books to sell in the UK. The SMS services are particularly interesting. I’ve also been very bogged down with other projects in the evening, trying to catch up. Most notably www.DocSecure.co.uk which, despite not being a challenging project at the moment I just haven’t had the necessary time to get things done and the owners are trying to work a very tight schedule. I’m glad the week is over! Don’t get me wrong, I thrive off tough challenges and am never happy if I’m not incredibly busy, it’s just the way I like it! But the only challenge this week was time and getting things done. As a developer it’s always frustrating when you work your butt off each day but aren’t at all happy with the end result. I didn’t get to paint any masterpieces this week, nor really achieve anything more than taking projects back in time and then returning them to square one. My work this week could have been done by a first year computer scientist with a ‘Beginners Guide To PHP’ on his desk. But don’t get me wrong… it was a worthwhile endeavour. I’ve settled more into the new routine at home and at work and I know that this was very much a one-off week with more exciting things to come. While I enjoy the chance to catch up with people this weekend and spend a few hours relaxing (my social life went out the window this week, I hardly even saw my flatmate), I’m also excited to get to work on Monday morning and hopefully having the chance to use both sides of my brain again. Time-frames shouldn’t be as hectic too, as my primary focus will be on what I’m working on in the office as just about everything else now I’ve managed to outsource to other contractors or the projects are coming to an end. I might actually end up living a normal life! With normal working-days! Giving me plenty of time to socialise and work on my own things in my spare time.
~Ben | H1net |
