I've really dropped the ball on blogging. I've sucked at following everyone's blogs too.It's been an intense consulting cycle. In fact, it was so stressful that one of the people I work with is currently on a 30-day medical leave-of-absence. She completely buckled under the pressure.
I had my moments, but managed to pull through.
At the beginning of the cycle I decided to completely overhaul the deliverable. I made a lot of changes that our clients really like and will save me a lot of time. But like any upgrade, there were some kinks and bugs along the way. That didn't help stress levels.
And then we had some unusual challenges too.
We're through the worst of it. And now I just have to cross my fingers and hope the wrecked economy doesn't render everything I've done useless. The credit crunch is squeezing families hard. I'm in the predicting business, and it's hard to predict anything with any certainty these days.
The good news is, I automated so many tasks that project completion time has gone from 160 hours to about 40 hours. Doing the math, that's like getting a $60 per hour raise (I get paid by the project, not by the hour).
Score one for slackers like me.
Those of you savvy enough to do the math backwards and guesstimate my annual income, well, good for you. If your calculations are correct you'll find that I'm not getting rich doing this. I'm not even breaking even with my community college salary just yet. But I could get rich doing this. And that excites me. I may want a simple life, but I'm not opposed to getting rich either. I will have earned it.
Nevertheless, I am my own brand of slacker. Just in time for spring, I'm not having to be at the computer so much. I won't have any income for the next month or two, but that's just fine by me. I'm ready to relax, read books, volunteer (Meals on Wheels needs drivers), and start working on those buff arms I promised myself on NYE.
So while the R&R will be very good for me, it's not going to be especially good for blogging. I'll Tweet every now and again.
5 comments:
Congrats on finishing up on top! You must feel so relieved. I'll look you up on Twitter.
I'm too lazy to do math forward, let alone backward. Slackers unite!
Nothing remotely slacker-ish about finding a way to do the same work in 1/4 the time. WTG!
Enjoy your free time- you earned it :) (Could you send me a few hours- i could use 'em about now:)
I understand being too busy to blog...
I can't do that kind of math, I was only a 1st/2nd grade teacher. ;)
It is cool that you were able to automate so many things. I know what you mean about the blogging time, same issues here, but for grad school work reasons.
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