Napped the Weekend Away + Gave Notice

[nibblezz]

My period was especially sucky this month. Severe cramping, extreme mood swings, looking like a water balloon due to excess water retention, and extreme fatigue. 

Since I literally napped the entire two day weekend, it's safe to say I didn't get much (ok anything) done. And I'm still exhausted today!

Can't blame it all on my period. My contract work has become tedious and unnecessarily stressful.

I knew it was time to call it quits when I began struggling to complete super easy requests. It's not that I couldn't do it, it's just I DIDN'T WANT to do it, lol. 

The straw that broke my back? This weekend my boss emails me about, what amounts to rehauling an event design that was approved and decided upon months ago. Not to mention all marketing collateral already was sent out and viewed in the public sphere, lol.

*SIGH*

I can't do it anymore, I'm just...exhausted.

Today I gave notice. It felt good. I wanted to do the standard two weeks, but they have an event coming up in October that would have screwed them without a designer, so my last day is October 31.

Comments

[calzephyr]

Good riddance to that sucky job!

Clients that can't commit are the worst. Sometimes you can guide them to the best solution but then other times they just make up their own :-P

I wish I had jotted down more stories about when I worked at Old Job during the dot com boom. There were so many whimsical changes on one website that it's probably a blessing I forgot about them.

[nibblezz]

"Whimsical"

That made me laugh. I'm sure that's a very nice way of saying it was shitfest, lol :D

Good riddance is right, I hated that job from the beginning. Hoping the next one won't be as bad.

[calzephyr]

Hee! Yes, it was a shitfest. It was among the first custom product personalization sites online and it was a very, very beautiful site. And it was exciting to work on--we had a photo shoot in the office and the photographer and MUA came in. But we also worked very long days and there was one make or break night where the website demo absolutely had to work or the project was over. Fortunately the client had very deep pockets, so any billable time was okay :-D Alas the site is no longer online. It was too ahead of its time in 1999. No one had the bandwidth for such a graphic heavy website and no one was fully aboard the e-commerce wagon.

[calzephyr]

Oh, I just remembered, as you can imagine, once the site was deemed too graphic heavy after launch, a lot of pages were redesigned to make it load faster and eventually the images were farmed out to an Akami server (I feel really old now). The website had the sorts of things that designers loved at the time like pop up windows and tons of rollovers, which necessitated a custom preload script. No concerns for accessibility either, naturally. Instead of having to fight to get it working on mobile, we also had to fight to get it working on Netscape 4.5. Suffice to say, no one had any idea what we were doing half the time, LOL! Old Job wouldn't be able to get away with that today.

[nibblezz]

Good lord that sounded like a nightmare.

Netscape 4.5, lol. Those were the days :D