Gotta love working in IT. Don't get me wrong, I find it very rewarding, but there comes a time when I want to leave work at work. I've been working at my current position for just under 3 years now, and was at my position prior to that for three years. There is one thing that is somewhat of a constant when working in IT Support. The dreaded Cell Phone.
Theoretically my work hours are from 8am to 5pm, with an hour for lunch. From a practical standpoint, I start getting calls and emails at around 7:30am, and they continue on well past 5. Part of that can be attributed to working in Higher Ed. Classes don't stop at 5, they continue until 10, and some adjunct faculty members aren't on campus during our normal hours. Some of it can't.
I've been on the road to a family function on a Saturday morning, I've taken calls from the CFO while trying to put my 1 year old to bed, I've troubleshot printers while waiting for a ride to a wedding in a different time zone.
I have a company issue iPad, and I have a very hard time ignoring the little "1" on the mail icon, emails will come in all the time, some of them are easier to ignore than others.
My anniversary is come up soon, and my wife and I are planning to get away for a couple days, just the two of us. The kids are going to stay with their grandparents. Do I leave the phone? Or do I take it so that they can reach us of they need to? There's no easy answer.
Ah well, so far it has been a quiet weekend, only 1 email so far, but one that fell under the category of "rather important, and needs to be dealt with sooner rather than later"
On that note, I'm going to wash the dinner dishes, and hope to sleep without hearing the dreaded "you've got mail" chime.
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