For the last three months, I have been on the training programme at work, which is now coming to an end. As such we have been split into teams to work on projects that would usually take a couple of months to complete, and then given a little under a month to do them in. These projects are no joke, they’re real projects that the business want doing, and can have a real impact on the firm. As a result the pressure truly is on to deliver a working product at the end of it all.
This has resulted in a strange situation for me, where I’ve found that I’ve become addicted to doing the work. I spent the majority of this bank holiday weekend either in the office or working from home, and I have absolutely no problem with this. I even went so far as to be working at 1:30am on Monday morning, purely because I was awake and in the mood to do some work.
Now, some people would see this as being rather wrong, especially as I don’t get paid any overtime for doing this work. On the other hand, I have no problem with it, as I actually enjoy it (especially with the challenges involved in the project) and I knew what I was getting myself into when I applied for the job.
As the project deadline draws ever closer (the code freeze is in less than a week now) I suspect that I’ll spend even more time working on it, striving for perfection; and I have no problem with this. I’m not sure why I’m so keen at the moment, maybe it’s because I’m enjoying the project more because of the pressure, maybe I’ve just gone insane… who knows. All I know is that I’ve got a week off after the project is out of the way, and then I go into my job for the foreseeable future, where I can only hope that I retain the same enthusiasm as I currently have.