Surviving both jobs for an year, what a thrill !

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thrilled, it was very exciting. First, my idea was to work on the two projects for three months and after that I will decide what I am going to do. At the day job, the office one everything was new, the project, the technologies, the team, so it was very interesting, after 5 PM when I had the call with the team for my remotely project started another job evening-night for me, because my working hours were prolonged until 1 AM every day and on the weekends I had to work around fifteen hours, sometimes maybe twenty hours, it was a little bit exhausting. But I guess this setup worked for me, at least for a time because I got used to it and could be managed. I feel the need to explain why I did what I did, it was because I wanted to, I guess I wanted to prove something and because it was a great opportunity for me to save some money.In the summer I spent my weekends on the sea, and even if I worked at least I changed my routine and I did spend some time in nature and I did recharge my batteries. After seven months of working like crazy eighty hours per week, including the weekends, well, after the tiredness came, I started to feel horrible. I was not productive anymore, every day was just fading, I did not when the week or the month went so quickly, I became isolated, stressed out, isolated, angry most of them, I had trouble sleeping, I started to lose my confidence and questioning why am I doing what I was doing. I was thinking that life is too short and I don’t hav

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e time to enjoy it, to have fun, to sleep and eat right. But somehow I wanted to keep going because it was something that I enjoyed doing and was something that I wanted to achieve, to stay connected to these projects as long as possible. So I did not quit (even if at some point I was convinced that this is the right thing for me, but after the winter holiday, having some rest, things were getting back to normal, I was getting back to my old routine). In all this time I had so much coffee, ate sweets, everything that needed to be done just to keep my focus and concentration, so I can do my work, probably it was some kind of addiction.In April this year, things were somehow sorting themselves, so the collaboration with the remote project ended, my job there was completed, so I remained with the office job and I might say that was a relieved, but at the same time something was missing, because I did not have the same schedule and working rhythm and it was no longer so challenging. This was the most challenging and demanding time for me mentally, physically and professionally. It was very intense and a lot of work and so little time for myself. But I guess once again this was a test (and I tested myself) to push my limits and try to make the impossible being possible. Everyone that I talked about this was like an impossible mission to go through with it, to make it happen. But it was something that I needed to do for myself and it feels so good.</article></body>

Surviving both jobs for a year, what a thrill !

Difficult as it is being a freelancer, I thought that there was not enough thrill in my life and I accepted the offer for an office job, having already a project that I was working on as a freelancer… this was happening last year in May when everything started. I was working on this project since October 2018, and the schedule was restrictive, because I had to work eight hours daily, there was a monitoring application. The good thing: I was able to make my own schedule, I could work couple of hours and after that go for a walk or run. But still I felt like it was sort of freedom in everything, the illusion that you can do your job whatever you like, you have some freedom in learning what you like with a lot of opportunities to evolve and develop exactly as you want.

So after eight months in which I worked so hard, to implement from scratch an automation framework, the job itself began easy and probably something was missing like some interaction and being in challenge for a new project I thought to myself: “Okay, and now what ? What should be next ?” So, the next thing what I did was to apply for jobs, the regular ones, with schedule, procedure, boss and everything. I accepted the offer from ones of the companies and I was so thrilled, it was very exciting. First, my idea was to work on the two projects for three months and after that I will decide what I am going to do. At the day job, the office one everything was new, the project, the technologies, the team, so it was very interesting, after 5 PM when I had the call with the team for my remotely project started another job evening-night for me, because my working hours were prolonged until 1 AM every day and on the weekends I had to work around fifteen hours, sometimes maybe twenty hours, it was a little bit exhausting. But I guess this setup worked for me, at least for a time because I got used to it and could be managed. I feel the need to explain why I did what I did, it was because I wanted to, I guess I wanted to prove something and because it was a great opportunity for me to save some money.

In the summer I spent my weekends on the sea, and even if I worked at least I changed my routine and I did spend some time in nature and I did recharge my batteries. After seven months of working like crazy eighty hours per week, including the weekends, well, after the tiredness came, I started to feel horrible. I was not productive anymore, every day was just fading, I did not when the week or the month went so quickly, I became isolated, stressed out, isolated, angry most of them, I had trouble sleeping, I started to lose my confidence and questioning why am I doing what I was doing. I was thinking that life is too short and I don’t have time to enjoy it, to have fun, to sleep and eat right. But somehow I wanted to keep going because it was something that I enjoyed doing and was something that I wanted to achieve, to stay connected to these projects as long as possible. So I did not quit (even if at some point I was convinced that this is the right thing for me, but after the winter holiday, having some rest, things were getting back to normal, I was getting back to my old routine). In all this time I had so much coffee, ate sweets, everything that needed to be done just to keep my focus and concentration, so I can do my work, probably it was some kind of addiction.

In April this year, things were somehow sorting themselves, so the collaboration with the remote project ended, my job there was completed, so I remained with the office job and I might say that was a relieved, but at the same time something was missing, because I did not have the same schedule and working rhythm and it was no longer so challenging. This was the most challenging and demanding time for me mentally, physically and professionally. It was very intense and a lot of work and so little time for myself. But I guess once again this was a test (and I tested myself) to push my limits and try to make the impossible being possible. Everyone that I talked about this was like an impossible mission to go through with it, to make it happen. But it was something that I needed to do for myself and it feels so good.