career

Well, this has been a big year for me career-wise. I recently got promoted, and today, my client had their big go-live. I’ve been working in Dallas for three years on this project, and it seems like just yesterday that we were introducing ourselves to the primary vendor contacts and having all-day scoping sessions at the Hilton Park Cities, deciding what all the key areas were that needed to be worked out. July 2014 seemed so far away, and it’s hard to believe that it’s finally here. Maybe it’s the fact that I’ve only gotten five hours of sleep total since Sunday, when …

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We’re already almost halfway through June, and that means that my project’s huge go-live is less than 3 weeks away. I’ve been working on this project for 2.5 years (which is basically the equivalent of at least five normal-length projects in consulting), so it’s hard to believe that the big day is almost here. But along with that big day comes… night shift. I survived night shifts in back in January, when we had our release 1 go-live, and in fact, I even kind of liked some aspects of being nocturnal. I didn’t have a hard time adjusting in January, since …

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