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- non
We're totally swamped. Anybody else feeling the pre-christmas "holy shit I gotta go to print in a couple of days" heat?
What are you workin' on?
- non0
And I still manage to waste time by creating stupid threads.
great.
- designbot0
I haven't had much to do lately.....wait cleanup in aisle 2, dangit gotta go!
- mg330
Yeah. Completely. I had a slow month a couple months ago where I said, "it's gonna be busy around Christmas," and here I am writing specs for three different projects, updating wireframes, reviewing new creative concepts from a client, working on alpha edits for a new site, working on estimates for 09 client projects, and working on 10-15 hours of regression testing for a client site, trying to determine why an upgraded site can't go live, writing notes for custom features, and trying not to work 28 hours a day.
Free peanut butter cookie is all that is saving me at the moment.
- 7point340
me too, emu.
i wish i had your job.
- gramme0
I was slammed until this week. Enjoying a bit of respite.
- monospaced0
I'm trying to create a custom calendar before the end of the year, which is difficult with everything else going on. About to kill someone.
- monospaced0
I have an external monitor that's just for QBN.
- dearhead0
I just finished a couple huge projects.
If you do a lot of web, many larger clients have code freezes around this time of year (so many people are on vacation - so no ones around to fix stuff) so you end up with a big race to get stuff live and stable.. then a bit of a slow down.. so right now it seems like a lot of planning/pitches/etc, and that other 'development' half is out the window.
Ned
- doesnotexist0
wish I was busy. it's been hard finding work here.
- that sucks, your work is good!
monospaced - sorry to hear it, i <3 your work.dearhead
- thanks! tough times for suredoesnotexist
- that sucks, your work is good!
- Horp0
I worked like a dog to clear my schedule pre-move to new studio. All that has happened since then is commissions keep on coming. I don't mind, its good, but I really did assume I'd spend December catching up on other stuff. I even got home tonight and took a call from somenone needing to book an emergency job for tomorrow morning.
It seems to have gone a bit crazy.
- wordsinyourmouth0
more like a couple of weeks of heat here
- doesnotexist0
if you guys need some help, I'm a helper.
- BattleAxe0
I hate when people come by my desk and ask "Are you busy?" that usally means can you help me with something, why not ask "Can you help me with something?" because regardless of the first question the second one comes up
- CyBrain0
Busy as fuck and we're still having layoffs. I can't figure it out.
- KwesiJ0
i am completely fucking overwhelmed with what i have to get done in the next two months with xmas right smack dab in the middle of it
- dog_opus0
I was super-busy until today. I sent the finished job to my boss last night – 24 pp booklet about a children's Christmas charity event – and for reasons unknown, she never got it. I didn't have it on my flash drive, so I had to jet home to get it off to the printer so that she could pick it up within the hour. Yeesh. Now we only have two semi-major jobs that have to be completed by January; no problem.
Besides that, I couldn't find freelance work at the moment if my life depended on it, but I need this month off anyway to prepare for courses I'm teaching next semester.
I'm pretty grateful to have work right now.
- d_rek0
We're pretty busy right now... couple big RFP's sent out to some potentially huge clients. Add to those the usual shtuff and yeah... we are kinda slammed right now. But it's good, it'll make the two-week paid vacation from the 22nd-5th that much sweeter :D
- magnificent_ruin0
I can't tell