My company just signed a major new client about two months ago, and since then I've been buried under a deluge of work.
It's been so bad that my company broke down and actually consented to pay me overtime for the last several weeks, which has always been nearly unthinkable.
This is one of the first times in my life I've ever earned overtime, and I've been impressed with how much it's totally not worth it.
Time and half totally isn't worth giving up time with my family and giving my time for fun and rest. DH and I are scheduled to go to Vegas this Friday, and I'm going to have to take my laptop with me and work every day I'm out there. It's just not worth it.
I don't know what I'm going to do yet. I got moved to a new team and I really don't see this getting a whole lot better. There may be lulls, but I can just see this happening over and over again.
Is it worth keeping the job? I don't know. But this the most serious I've been about possibly walking away. I need to think on this some more.
Overtime isn't all it's cracked up to be.
July 25th, 2007 at 07:07 pm