A Season of Change
Posted by Aragoen Celtdra on 6th November 2008
President-elect Barack Obama promised change. And changes are happening closer to me even before he was elected president.
I’m talking about the company I work for. Just two weeks ago, I completed a project to install a new T1 PRI for our new phone DIDs. I worked with our telco vendor to turn up the new circuit and programmed the new phone extensions into the pbx.
Two months ago, I completed a project to implement our network plan for the VPN connectivity.
But this week, more changes were made which I wasn’t particularly thrilled about. No, I’m not talking about the election. 
A new round of layoffs was just executed with my company and to cut to the point, 3 members of our team were let go. While I’m happy that I wasn’t one of the unlucky ones that were unsummarily executed, our team of six is now down to three. And you know what that means. That means more responsibility for me. I would have been more happy if I was given more technically-related duties. But no, most of the IT administrative duties were thrown at my desk (i.e. chasing billing paperwork, following up on invoices, and getting drilled by upper management why I approved such and such purchase when I didn’t – do you detect the indisposition? 
). I mean, dude, at least give me something to fix.
Well at least I will be a lot more involved with the email migration we are currently in the middle of.
I’m already feeling the effects of this new change. I’ve found myself this last three days bringing some work home with me – figuratively speaking. I don’t actually bring the work home. I go home and remote in to my office and do the work there. I wonder if that constitute “bringing the work home”?
What does this mean for me? Well, less time to study.
I did a quick computation on my head yesterday and figured that I will be losing approximately 1.5 hrs of good study time with this new change. I don’t know how I got that number but it sounds like a pretty square estimation. 
This also means an almost sure probability that I will have to change my study patterns again. But to compensate for the last two days of minimal activity on the learning front, I studied for 4 hours yesterday. In fact I started with the lab guide this week and will work towards completing the whole section on OSPF. I’m supposed to be reviewing BGP this week but again, I’m behind.
Will keep trudging…
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