Lately work has been sucking. I got this cool project, one I have been waiting to do all year and it finally comes 2-3 weeks before it is due. Last week the art director and project manager were out in training and I took the initiative to get me some help as I know that I can’t single handedly put in all of the content in 3 days. The job was due Friday and the voiceover and videos are getting to me, well they were suppose to be in today but after events that I will get to in a minute, didn’t happen. There is absolutely no time to test this CD out before it goes to duplication. Last week I felt I was being sold down the river by failing the imposible timeline.
Anyway I got a freelancer in and had Rob read the script in the shape it is and get me something to time to.
Monday Adam found out how much time I have spent on it and freaked out. I guess this big budget he keeps bragging to me about isn’t that big. I guess he didn’t think I had anything to do on this project to get ready. I feel justified on the hours I spent so far but now we have a freelancer to pay with that budget as well.
I have been stressing about this job all week so far bringing my trouble home worried that Adam won’t ever trust me to do a job like this again.
The freelancer is a senior programmer at our competion on the outside and he is great. He pretty much redid everything I did to make it smart. That didn’t help my mood but I appreciate all that I am learning from him.
Adam told me to stop what I am doing until we get the voiceover so this morning I had nothing to do while the freelancer works.
Funny thing happened today. A big bad virus took down all the computers. We were not allowed to turn on our computers until after lunch today. For some reason this event made things better for me. I am not sure. I caught up on my trade magazine reading and went out to lunch. When I came back we were close to being able to work.
A couple hours later we had to turn off the computers again. I just went home.
Tomorrow is suppose to be a busy, busy day. I wonder if the computers will be up?