This week I will be taking a couple of days off (actually, downgraded this to 1.5 days) to attend a wedding. What nobody tells you about PTO is that you’re just going to have to stay late enough and come in the weekend before your trip to get enough work done to be able to leave!

Okay, so maybe that’s not a secret, but just something you don’t realize ‘til you work in an office.

I always thought that I was “too busy” to add other activities in college. It was hard to find time to socialize with friends, with so much studying to do. Now, I realize how much time I really had back then. And I wonder if I’ll look back on this time some day, and realize how much time I really had now. I still have time to write and read blog posts, after all, so there must be room to get busier at work ;).

I thought that after “busy season” it would be tough to find work to do. I was WRONG, but that is a GOOD THING because of billable hours targets, etc. I’m looking forward to taking the bulk of my PTO after September 15th, where it should be much more difficult to have “too much” work to do. And thanks to being busy now, I should be able to hit my billable hours target this year.

So… next week, I may be even busier, as we get closer to September 15th, or I may have a bit more time to post and comment again, as I’m currently working on a special project (in addition to regular work) that will be done by next week.