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Friday March 21, 2003

Life as a Contractor

This weeks sucks to be a contractor. It's a 2-day week and that's all I'm getting paid for - 2 days. Damnit, wish I was full-time. Then again, if I were making the big bucks, 2 days would be plenty to pay the mortgage. Alas, I am not - and I'm tempted to work this weekend. What the hell is wrong with me - work on the weekend?! I make fun of my friends when they work on the weekend - now I'm a hypocrite. I have a to do list that makes my weekend boring as all getout:

  • work 10-12 hours at day job
  • add user administration to struts-resume
  • release appfuse
  • finish new design prototype for client
  • release displaytag (no one else seems to want to do it)
  • clean the house before Julie gets home

No wonder I miss Julie and Abbie so much when they're gone - I sit in front of the fricken computer all the time! When I get out of the house (or simply off the computer), I find I miss them much less (it's been almost 2 weeks!). I might have to scrap my to do list (save the paid part - item 3) and get off the damn computer. Booking happy hour and ski dates shortly... ;-)

Posted in General at Mar 21 2003, 04:07:13 PM MST 2 Comments
Comments:

Don't fret Matt. I am working full-time, and I have been consistently working on Saturdays (full-day) for a while now. It's a tough time right now.

Posted by Niel Eyde on March 23, 2003 at 01:57 PM MST #

Same for me, though I've been devoting all my time to the paid job exclusively. I really admire people who work their asses off to earn bucks, have kids, and still have some time / energy to blog / release open source stuff. Maybe this has something to do with the snow obsession? ;-)

Posted by Greg Klebus on March 25, 2003 at 09:17 AM MST #

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