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Working 50 hours a week... finally like everyone else

Found some time to blog. Now I'm working 50 hours a week. Maintain a gant-like reporting issue chart using google spreadsheet. A lot of reporting and a lot of actions and following up. So much things to do, that I'm working from 10am-12pm (2 hours), 3pm to 12mn (9 hours). (not counting travel times). Today, 10:30am-12pm. 3:30pm-on going right now. Probably end by 1-2am. Fucking Eh! I don't have any time and burning out. I'm now dragging myself to work, a bit. Add to that the baby wakes up at 5am to 7am, cutting my sleep to 5 hours. I get 8 hours sometimes. At least I have lunch with my brother and wife. Gaspar is working with me now, and we are both learning on the Job. Freethinking and the RHB science debate helped make me more metrics driven. When I became exposed to the amount of metrics at work, It was not too overwhelming. Strategy games, my style of RPGaming and my economics lectures also helped immensely. Looking at it like a Gamer, trying to find a way to min-

More work... Less play

I've become really too busy for play... Except my airsoft because i can throw money at the pro el. Gaming and game prep is very time consuming. Because it is an arcane way of enjoying myself I have to be the one to do everything. So I've collected a ton of reading material. Other than the aspects of business that relates to my hobby, I've now hit business expertise that are very distant and a less related. Right now I am brushing up on the history Business Process Outsourcing. At work I'm learning more about IT, it's structure and processes as well a bit of HR. I'm taking a crash course in processes as well as negotiation. Also I'm learning to be able to phrase or frame all my actions in a report. Everything has to have s report. That's the skill and mindset that was alien to our company but infused by our new COO. As a skeptic and a pragmatist, I fully see the value if this. Actually almost all my cognitive studies support this kind of cold rationale wh

Family Unity

I'm sure it's been said that a crisis makes a family stronger. It is in this time of crisis, I was able to thrive and help my family. It was an opportunity to act in our shared best interests and become adept in the things we needed to be to survive and later thrive. Where are my other siblings in this time of need? I guess this exposure to these problems and giving us, the children, the chance to deal with it or, at least, be there in it's resolution helps remind us to respect each other and cultivate our strengths. It was in these situations where I learned what I needed to be, what practical skills I needed to have to help out. I get to wondering about my younger brother and sister. It's true that you remember the people you need, when you need them. Being short handed with people to trust and to execute the family's self interests, I think about them more. Since they are not there, I talked to my most trusted friends. I can talk to them about the crisis but I ca