Went from being generally unemployed over summer to now working 2 jobs consistently, have a 3rd 'project' that i've wayyyy behind on, and had a 4th project popped on my last week with a hard 2-week completion time.
I'm learning new things *every day* at the new job. Met with an industry technician to learn about our EKG machines today. Been doing maps and flowcharts for the last 2 weeks.
Working at the truck shop every Saturday for small money. This Saturday is a backup camera, that's 100% on me and alot of labor money on top of my day rate.
I'm supposed to be working on a friend's website, taking an excel sheet of SKU's/Product Names/Prices and putting them into a webstore. I'm about 8 hours in and have 16-20 hours left to do, but I literally have not had the time to actually do it. I keep telling myself 'an hour every night', but my eyes are so tired from charting during the day that more spreadsheets are the last thing i'm in the mood for.
Then last Tuesday i get a phone call from a previous customer saying "I need you to make me a product that takes in X data and puts it on multiple TV screens. And I need a demo by end of next week and a production unit a week after that". I spent last week and the weekend writing the software for it, spending this week getting the hardware together to ship him a demo product. I've had it running with a data source emulator for about 50 hours now, processing around 17,000 emulated transactions so far (one every 5 seconds). The demo product is ugly as sin, but I've ordered the toolings to make the production products look much better.
Maybe one day, I'll "slow down"
I've started going for a 20-30 minute walk on my lunch break when weather permits, and I make oatmeal for lunch each day (with steaming hot water). No more eating out or anything like that, has saved me big money already. It's nice not being stressed between 8 and 4:30.
I'm learning new things *every day* at the new job. Met with an industry technician to learn about our EKG machines today. Been doing maps and flowcharts for the last 2 weeks.
Working at the truck shop every Saturday for small money. This Saturday is a backup camera, that's 100% on me and alot of labor money on top of my day rate.
I'm supposed to be working on a friend's website, taking an excel sheet of SKU's/Product Names/Prices and putting them into a webstore. I'm about 8 hours in and have 16-20 hours left to do, but I literally have not had the time to actually do it. I keep telling myself 'an hour every night', but my eyes are so tired from charting during the day that more spreadsheets are the last thing i'm in the mood for.
Then last Tuesday i get a phone call from a previous customer saying "I need you to make me a product that takes in X data and puts it on multiple TV screens. And I need a demo by end of next week and a production unit a week after that". I spent last week and the weekend writing the software for it, spending this week getting the hardware together to ship him a demo product. I've had it running with a data source emulator for about 50 hours now, processing around 17,000 emulated transactions so far (one every 5 seconds). The demo product is ugly as sin, but I've ordered the toolings to make the production products look much better.
Maybe one day, I'll "slow down"
I've started going for a 20-30 minute walk on my lunch break when weather permits, and I make oatmeal for lunch each day (with steaming hot water). No more eating out or anything like that, has saved me big money already. It's nice not being stressed between 8 and 4:30.