Long Day

Posted on 2009/01/29 20:30:43 (January 2009).

[Monday 26th January]
Today ended up a 13 hour day at the office - I got in at 9 sharp, and didn't leave until 10 in the evening, with just a couple of 5 minute breaks for lunch and dinner. It was a really long slog, but thankfully it looks like the most recent crisis on the project, which had been occupying my time for the last couple of weeks, has come to something of a resolution, albeit perhaps just a short term one.

It's still a strange feeling as an engineer to be making decisions which have big financial consequences, particularly when it relates to running costs and revenue - i.e. large sums of money that are changing hands every single day. This particular situation was one in which, for essentially technical reasons, a fairly large sum of cash was being paid out every day, in many people's opinions entirely unnecessarily. It's a difficult environment to work in - as always I want to make sure I'm doing the right thing, but equally every extra day I spend on it has a very real and tangible cost attached to it.

So being able to come up with a solution today which seemed to keep everyone happy - at least for the time being - was a huge weight off my mind.

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