Ideas Overload
Posted: Tue 20 January, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Five Year Plan (now Ten), Getting Organised, Own Business, Thoughts, Work-related | 2 Comments »At the moment, I’m a bit swamped on the ideas front. It’s not an unusual occurrence, to be honest – but it means I’m trying to stick with some vague kind of prioritisation (is that a word?) in order to get things done, and to get those ideas out into the real world.
At the same time, there’s also several ongoing projects for clients as well, which makes things slightly more interesting. I’ve been working through those as well (and there’s at least one still waiting that I should have completed a long time ago) because they’re paying jobs, whereas the ideas I’ve got may make money, but certainly won’t do so straight away – if ever, in fact.
I do like getting these ideas out of the way – and indeed, they’re all part of that much-mooted five-year plan I’ve been banging on about for the last two years or so – but I’d be just as happy to only have one idea at a time, rather than the four or five that are currently floating around at any given time. Sometimes, keeping track of them all isn’t exactly easy, although I don’t mind too much in general. I know that writing them down would be counter-productive (as I whittled about last week) so keeping them in my head is the best plan. After all, if I then forget them, the idea probably wasn’t worth that much in the first place.
The really frustrating/sad/geeky part is that when I get these ideas, they come fully equipped with database setups and tables as well. And that is just a sign that I really should be getting out one hell of a lot more…
Dethused
Posted: Mon 19 January, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Cynicism, Introspective, Thoughts, Work-related | Leave a comment »Yes, I know, it’s not a word. But all the same, it’s one I’ve created, and I’m sticking with it.
Following on from my thoughts about the new job I’m in, this morning started off with the serious “I really don’t want to do this any more” thoughts. For me that’s always been the sign that it’s time to get out and go somewhere else.
In fairness, it normally takes a lot longer before I’m ready to move on, but this time may well be one of the shortest turnaround periods in my work history.
We’ll see.
Run Down
Posted: Sat 17 January, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Cynicism, Health, Work-related | Leave a comment »Currently, I seem to be developing my third cold in less than two months. All told, I’m just feeling run down and rubbish.
I don’t really know why it’s all attacking me at the moment – I suspect a general covering of “Bleh” due to reasons detailed in a previous post. We’re eating pretty well, I keep taking the ol’ vitamins etc., but at the moment it just keeps on coming round.
Maybe working in an office that resembles a plague-ward is having an effect too…
Temptation
Posted: Fri 16 January, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Travel, Work-related | Leave a comment »From an agency in this morning’s email
“Hi Lyle, We’ve got a six month contract for a PHP developer in Gibraltar. Would you be interested?”
Talk about tempting…
Work Three Months On – Unenthused
Posted: Wed 14 January, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Cynicism, Geeky, Work-related | Leave a comment »We’re coming up to the three-month mark since I started the new job, so I thought I’d do a bit of a brain-dump about it. Bear in mind, I’m still being fairly careful about not saying what area the job/company work in, as it’s a pretty limited range of companies that do the same work in the Norfolk area…
It’s probably going to be a long-ish and grumpy post, so if you don’t want to know more, don’t click on the “More” link below…
Bye Bye, Christmas
Posted: Tue 6 January, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Domestic, Festering Season, Work-related | Leave a comment »And there we go, that’s the Festering Season™ over and done with for another eleven months.
In the office, all the decorations are down – I’ve no idea who won “Best dressed department”, and nor do I care – and it all just feels that bit saner than it did last week.
I’ve still got one or two thoughts that I need to put into writing, but that’ll be done over the next few days, I should think.
The ’09 Photography Project
Posted: Fri 2 January, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Depression, Own Business, Photography, Thoughts, Work-related | Leave a comment »As well as the plan to do more “proper” writing in 2009, I’m also planning to make a change to my photography site.
With the NCFE course, I’ve started taking more photos – which was one of the main goals of starting the course – and it’s provided me with some motivation. And while the course is still ongoing, I’m also going to be aiming to put at least one new photo per week up on the photography site as well.
Now I know that “one photo per week” doesn’t sound like much – but right now I’d rather have quality than quantity, and have one decent photo per week than five or six ropy ones I’m not entirely happy with if I were doing a “one photo per day” project. I’ve got the greatest respect for the Project365 people who do undertake that challenge, but with the amount of things I’m currently doing, for me it just wouldn’t be practical. Besides, I know that as I got further behind on a “photo per day” project, I’d get more and more demotivated. (which may or may not be grammatical, but you get the idea)
The aim with a “photo per week” is just to keep on going, keep on going out and taking photos, with the aim of putting them up on the site. Of course, I’ve got to add in a couple of bits of code on the site in order to handle it, but that’s what Christmas/New Year is for, right?