It was a short week filled with landscaping, sun burn and work; can’t get away for long without phone calls from the office. I really never seem to take vacation time, just time away from the office. This year wasn’t too bad apart from the lack of money to really do anything. These pay cuts are really starting to cause issues for us financially, if the company doesn’t bounce back soon, I may be forced to look for employment elsewhere. This is not something I want to do; I have a good thing going here and it could be a great thing with a couple more IT people on my team… and of course the pay not being cut/ frozen. I’m going to hang in for a bit longer, but I’m not going to be turning down anymore of these phone calls I get from head hunter groups. If something comes my way, at this point I’d be a fool not to explore my options.

Come the second week of August I will take a week off to rest, let me tell you, it is needed. This year has had it’s share of rough days from a super tight budget that I can’t wait for the company to ‘bounce back’, if it ever does. In the mean time we move on, day by day, paycheck by paycheck. Some months aren’t that bad, others I feel really bad that we can’t go out and do all the things we’d like to do. I’m fully confident things will get worked out, either by the company healing, or ultimately my moving on to a better position with a company that is not in financial turmoil.

Still, for now, day by day.

Needless to say this time period will be filled with some much needed rest.

One more week.