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[Big Evil]

All,

Did you ever get to a point when it all got a little to much?
Work is draining the life out of you, your work load is OTT. You seem to be treated like the damm oracle of everything, and people ask you questions/for help, but you never get anything in return. Everybody around you is floating around like they have all the time in the world, and their workload is 75% of yours, their biggest worry for the day is do they need an umbrella when they go for lunch. You don't get lunch.

You get home shot to hell, to worn out to enjoy your family. Reading for your next exam is the last thing you want to do, but that double edge sword tells you if you don't get off your butt you will never get a better job.

[Darby Weaver]

Welcome to IT. The neverending story my friend. That's a part of it for sure.

Stop, relax, take a breath, hold it, and then exhale.

Think about the good things and how it all eventually starts to come together.

Good luck!

Darby

[Steve Jobs]

I work full time 40+ hours a week and attend classes at night, its hard and it has completely killed my social life, but then again i never had any to begin with. Just take it easy and focus on what you need to do.

[faisal.saleem]

Hi BE,
Whenever i gets tired of work load then i think about many jobless people whom i personally know, and they sent me their CV's for job... some are my friends, or friends of friends, town mates or my relatives etc.

You know yesterday was the 2nd EID day here but i spent half day in our client NMS room for troubleshooting of a down lambda. Unluckily in my previous company i had daily 8hrs job@NOC during EID holidays ie 1st, 2nd and sometimes 3rd day

So imagine in your case, if you have Christmas but you goes in your office on 25th , 26th and 27 dec .

After all a job is a job .

[faisal.saleem]

One thing i had a lesson learnt that do not show to your boss that you have different kinds of expertise, in some cases it causes an extra burden on you because the rest colleague has simple argument that they do not know about this .

Edited by faisal.saleem, 14 September 2010 - 04:12 AM.

[faisal.saleem]

Another issue i am personally facing and not sure if you guys also face due to this IT profession. Mostly my friends and relatives send their faulty PC to my home or sometimes calls me for remote/physical help. This is happening since from 2000... Now i am tired to this thing. To be honest i do not charge anyone and my nature is that i can not say NO when people ask me for help..

Hell, today our neighbor ( who is basically the owner of our home ) sent his faulty PC in my home. In the first moment it had no display then after unplug/plug of vga and using dust blower the display problem was solved. You know in POST screen the cpu clock speed was showing 133Mhz with 64mb ram and 6 gb HDD perhaps the installed intel PII slot processor was 266MHz, it was wrong jumper setting(for controlling clock speed) on motherboard. The installed OS ie Windows Millennium was also corrupted due to viruses even i tried to repair with different system restore points in safe mode but no luck, beside that his CDROM was also dead, anyway i installed windows 2000 sp4 and installed F-Prot_Antivirus (this is the lightest antivirus which i know). The PC sound card and modem was ISA type and as i remember his modem was also dead.....

[MarkinManchester]

Hi

Manage your time and learn to say NO! If you don't they will continue to pressurise you an increase your workload.

Mark

[faisal.saleem]

Thanks mark... you speaks fair .

[vijay_poonia]

cpu clock speed was showing 133Mhz with 64mb ram and 6 gb HDD perhaps the installed intel PII slot processor was 266MHz, it was wrong jumper setting(for controlling clock speed) on motherboard. The installed OS ie Windows Millennium was also corrupted due to viruses even i tried to repair with different system restore points in safe mode but no luck, beside that his CDROM was also dead, anyway i installed windows 2000 sp4 and installed F-Prot_Antivirus (this is the lightest antivirus which i know). The PC sound card and modem was ISA type and as i remember his modem was also dead.....

Why people hate machines ???       

Edited by vijay_poonia, 14 September 2010 - 08:39 PM.

[Big Evil]

Cheers for the replies guys. I am feeling better today, i closed of a huge project that was not in my in area of knowlegde and chalked it up to skills i now have. I like to think i am a helpful chap, if someone needs a hand i chip in. But, people take the rise. You give an inch they take a mile, and wonder why you get PO'd with them.

I see what you are saying faisal, i know times are tough for some people. And i think others know this (employers) so they can push people harder.