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September 12, 2011

Monday morning blues

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While catching up on my Google Reader this morning, I came across a really timely article from Kristine over at My Consulting Life: 9 Signs it’s Time for a Change. When I read her list, all I could think was yes, yes, yes, and yes… which is not good. Recently, I’ve been getting stomachaches and nausea every Sunday night at the idea of returning to work on Monday – not good. While I don’t want to get into my problems at work on this blog (I draw the line there for oversharing), I thought I would talk about some coping …

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August 16, 2011

Weekend roundup

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In all of my unhappy ruminating about my job and how it can make it hard to build relationships, I didn’t mention one of the perks I like best: that I usually get a three day weekend of sorts. From Monday to Thursday, I work at my client site (lately that’s in Texas and Virginia, for my client’s two locations). I work my butt off Monday through Thursday, putting in fairly long hours in part because there are no distractions. At the end of the night, I’m just going back to my hotel to work out and watch TV, so …

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August 8, 2011

Continuing to ponder the work-life balance

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Last week, I wrote one of my most honest posts to date, on how I’m feeling about the relationships in my life. I was surprised to find a lot of empathy from others – I guess this is something that is pretty common after all! Since no one ran me out of the blogosphere with nastiness for my last post, I’m going to try to stop censoring and start writing what’s really on my mind. When I wrote that last post about relationships, an anonymous commenter wrote an eye-opening reply suggesting that perhaps this isn’t the job for me. Shortly …

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August 2, 2011

Pa-Pa-Pa-Poker Face

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Today’s hilarious tale from the trenches: My client has an intern who isn’t doing anything related to my job, so I haven’t worked with him yet. The intern and I were both in a meeting at 11am, and we got there early, so I asked him about what he was working on. He told me that the CMO asked him to put together an Excel sheet with some calculations. In fairness, it’s actually a somewhat complicated model he needs to build with assumptions, like… if we get a certain % supply from this source and a certain % supply from …

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July 27, 2011

Adjusting and Getting a Fresh Start

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This week has been flying by! I’m headed back to NYC tonight because I have a company event to attend tomorrow. While I still will be working tomorrow and Friday, my time at the client was cut super short – first because I couldn’t find a flight to get me to the office before lunchtime on Monday, and then because I have to fly out this afternoon. To further exacerbate the problem, my client was at a different location Monday and Tuesday, so I really need to fit a week’s worth of questions/iterations with them into just 8 hours before …

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