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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 8395107" data-attributes="member: 52734">Yeah, I’m very touchy when it comes to people giving me grief about my work life.  My youngest’ s son’s 18th birthday is this weekend, but we couldn’t plan a party for him because I’ll be working from 12AM to at least 5AM this weekend (if all goes well, which is unlikely), with having to get back up at 10AM to give a report on how the  upgrade has gone, and address any issues that have come up.  Then be in the office bright & cheery at 8 AM come Monday. And I have to do this at least 3 times a year (down from 4 from previous years).  This doesn’t include other upgrades and issues throughout the year (such as being in the middle of a Thanksgiving dinner at relatives when a client calls that their system is down).Don’t get me started about our management deciding Christmas two years ago was a good time to do our end-of-year upgrade, because “no one would be on the system”.  Gee, I wonder why that could be…I enjoy being able to set time aside to play a game of D&D - but sometimes life interferes, and I’ve had days coming home from work and my brain is so melted I don’t even take dinner and just go to bed and say to hell with it all.  Lately, I’ve had a few instances where I’ve just had to reschedule our weekend game because I’m just too burned out and need a day just to destress - and end up running errands that have been piling up.<EDIT>. As Arnold once said, “I need a vacation” - the past year and a half has been exceptionally hellish.</blockquote>

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