I know this time of year is always a little hectic, but this year it’s gotten wild. A confluence of some long term and short term commitments. My schedule for Sept/Oct.
Glad I got the rest of the grass cut this last week.
Do you have busy times of the year that recur regularly? In some positions I’ve held, we had certain events or processes that always caused additional stress and headaches for employees. As a bartender, certain holidays (New Years, Halloween) were extra crazy. In one company, every quarter was an adventure involving a late, or a complete, night of work. Different industries and organizations seem to have different schedules that regularly stress employees.
Are there times that are tough for you? Or maybe slow times? In a few organizations where my wife worked, the week between Christmas and New Years was always so slow that they’d actually close the office and give people the week off, without it affecting their vacation schedules. That would be a nice perk to have.
This is the busy time of year for me. Spring sometimes gets filled, but this next couple months is somewhat crazy. The first third of September I was in the UK. I returned home, and I have a week and a half off, which I need because then life gets hectic.
The weekend of the 20th, I’m heading back to upstate New York to see my daughter play in a volleyball tournament. That’s exciting since I’ve never seen her play college competition live, and I’m looking forward to the trip. A few days after I return, however, I head to Australia for work. Just a couple days, because I can’t spare the time, which is disappointing to my wife. She’s like to go, but since I’m in Memphis the first weekend of October, there isn’t time for a week in the beginning of Spring down under.
I am home the second week of October, but with a pre-con and SQL Saturday, it will be a busy week of prep and trying to get other things done since the third week of October my wife wants to go back to New York to see our daughter. I’m tempted, but torn since the last week of of the month I return to London before heading to Seattle the weekend after.
I still have other work to do with SQLServerCentral and Redgate in addition to these weekends, and I have the feeling I’ll be ready to knock off travel and just coach kids after the PASS Summit. Right now I’m looking at being committed for part or all of every weekend except for this past weekend until Nov 9.
A tough time, but really, it’s a great job I have with amazing opportunities to see friends and places all over the world. I know I’ll be tired, but it will be a good tired, even with the extra time spent preparing for travel and catching up on chores when I return.
Are there any wild times in your work world? Let us know today.
Steve Jones
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It’s two weeks to our next SQL in the City Summit, this time in Sydney. I’m excited to be going back, though it’s a quick trip for me. Likely I’ll be fueled on lots of coffee for the two days I’m in Australia, so if I’m speaking a bit fast, remind me that the rest of you aren’t on a whirlwind, halfway around the world trip.
We had great reviews on our previous tour, and I was sad to miss Sydney, but we’re coming back on Sept 27. The schedule is slightly different, but we’re thrilled to have Damian Brady from Microsoft talking about their DevOps transformation.
Anderson and myself will represent Redgate and deliver a few session on our tools, and we’ll have the amazing Hybrid DBA, Hamish Watson coming as well.
Register today and come learn more about Compliant Database DevOps and Redgate solutions to help you write database code more efficiently.
I’m off to the UK this weekend, for a few commitments next week. One of those is SQL in the City Streamed, which is taking place on Wednesday September 4, 2019.
This is a special broadcast, with some technical content, but some fun as well. This is the 20th birthday party for Redgate Software, and we’re looking forward to celebrating online.
We’ll be talking some DevOps, some products, some tips and tricks, and more, so register today and join me on Wednesday.
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