employablog

Last Wednesday, my team delivered the project we’ve been working on for the past eight weeks to the client. The next day I was on a plane back to Minnesota. Today I head back to Boston for a short stint on the Beach.

The Beach is like a vacation consultants sometimes get to take without leaving the office: instead of spending thirteen hours a day working on spreadsheets and slideshows and charts, you spend eight hours a day cleaning your desk and working on pet projects and catching up with ESPN.com.

Time on the Beach is usually brutally short because our firm is small enough and our projects short enough that there is almost always some project on the horizon that requires immediate attention. I’m told by some co-workers that this brevity is a good thing. Apparently, the Internet has an end, and when you reach that end at 1:30 in the afternoon with two-and-a-half hours to go before a salaried employee can honorably duck out early, the result is mind-numbing boredom.

Still, I’m hoping for a nice long stay on the Beach. My last project had some tough hours in its final weeks and it will be nice to get home before the gym closes and the first edition of Sportscenter roles. My dream may come true: most of the directors and project managers are out on vacation and I haven’t heard of any new things on the horizon.

I’ll believe in the end of the Internet when I see it. And if I do happen upon it, I can always create some more here at employablog…

P.S. If anyone has any suggestions on corners of the Internet I may not have seen, feel free to post them in the comments. It could be a long couple of days.

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