I have a feeling that by the end of this project, I will have gotten quite a ways towards my new year's resolutions. I've already made more phone calls and connections with people this week that I think I have in entire 2 years previous in this position (2 years without switching jobs, a record for me). Because this project promises to be so all-encompassing while I'm at work, I'm also going to try something new for me, which is leaving work behind when I'm done for the day. I've always blurred the line between time spent working and off-time...answering/checking email, working into the night, etc. I'll certainly have some long hours, but when I'm not working, I'm going to try actually not working.
I think it might work now that I'm not in operations, and I won't be getting paged for any wacky production problems. Plus, I'm just a normal tech lead. For the first time maybe ever, I have just have a plain old job description instead of some weird niche role as "the guy who gets everything that would otherwise fall through the cracks." It's a little different, but as long as I'm busy I don't care.
This is a rambling, entry, mostly pointless other than as a personal journal entry; feel free to ignore it.
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