Crunch mode...

[alexpgp]

No sooner had one job gone out the door, but another one came in. This one is sizeable - 26 pages - and due by COB on Friday.

Except that my "COB" on Friday is around 5 am, since I need to be on the road to the airport at around 6, so I can get there at 7, so I can fly out at 8 am on Mesa. (I am the Eternal Optimist™, ain't I?)

So that gives me just tomorrow to get the job done, with the good news being that I'm familiar with the subject, and the added good news that everything else that was on my plate today is done and gone, with but one invoice left to write.

Not to mention that no word to "stand down" has been passed from the launch campaign client.

I'm going to try to get 8-10 pages down on phosphor - I've already done almost half of that - by the time I call it quits today.

Cheers...

UPDATE, 6:50 pm: I done outdid myself, with 14 pages done and 12 left for tomorrow. Fortunately, these are safety certificates, a type of document I have lots of experience with, and lots of boilerplate examples of. I'm off to watch some tube.

Comments

[eastexpert.livejournal.com]

Eternal Optimist you are, indeed. I can relate to it, but my trademark was "Incorrigible Optimist"™ :)

Do you work on electricity? :) I can't imagine working all the time - nay, not me, gotta be work and gotta be rest sometime...

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Well, I do plan to sleep between now and departure!

I find that the freelance life exacerbates the paranoia associated with a quiet telephone (or email account), so I tend to work when work is available, and - in theory - relax when there's no work.

However, although there is, in theory, no difference between theory and practice, in practice... well... there is a difference. When there's no work, I tend to get wound up about there being no work, but practically speaking, I do tend to have a lot of free time that, alas, I spend not relaxing.

I can only comfort myself with the thought that I'd be equally crazy if I were employed full-time somewhere.

Cheers...

[eastexpert.livejournal.com]

Well, that's the difference between being a freelancer & full-time employee.
If you are employed all the time on a fixed salary, you are trying your best to do your job (if you're lucky enough to have a satisfying job), but when it's quiet, there would be no guilt in just letting the world be while you're relaxed.

Plus, good IT people are like good security -- when they work great, you don't tend to notice them at all. If you see 'em, something's gone wrong. :)

So if there is no work, for me there is no more guilt. :)