Holiday Time Off
I always think that work will slow down and give me a break this time of year, but up until 4 days ago, such was not the case. However, now that I have been off for all these 4 days, I hardly remember work at all. Thank goodness for time off.
Provided I stop thinking about work, the people at work, my evil boss, the things I have on my to-do list, etc., time off is a glorious thing. In fact it’s a necessity to anyone’s psychological well-being.
I have worked with people who carry their laptops, pagers and cell phones with them on vacation and on the weekends. I’ll admit, I even did a little of this early on in my IT career. At first I drew the line on vacations, however on weekends I still logged on and checked the backups and health of my systems. I do none of that now except for extreme circumstances.
But, like I said, I worked with one person in particular who felt that the place could not get along without him and he never took time off. Maybe it was a blessing for him when he was fired. Sincerely, I hope he is doing well now. I’m pretty sure he probably is.
Tomorrow morning I’ll turn my laptop on again and I’ll read my email and submerge myself once more into the world I call work, but for tonight, the present is all I chose to give my attention to.
