Engineer Andy's Journal: long hours seeming to work (for now)

been putting in long hours at work - getting there before anyone, leaving after everyone. Getting the desired effect, namely that a particular project has no charged time accrued against it, despite it needing about half my time in a given week.

I do hope this gets recognised when salary review time comes round, as it's pretty draining to spend all the light hours of the day inside, and having to balance time in "office hours" on this project with hours out of "office hours" that actually get charged onto my timesheet.

Upside is that unpaid overtime does get registered on the timesheet so the hours (about 15 a week) do get logged somewhere. It may not be massive hours compared to the mad hours that IT / law / medical people do, but it's enough to make a big difference to your day.

Getting frozen meals to eat at work courtesy of my girlfriend. it makes it easier to eat properly and avoid the junk food if you have a proper meal.

a week on and things wearing thin

[Engineer Andy]

the "fun" of long hours passes quickly. Two and a half weeks into 50+ hour weeks, and i'm shattered. waking up too early - not enough gap between finishing work and going to bed to allow the brain to properly unwind.

i woke up monday morning after a pretty relaxing weekend absolutely tired. I'd had a good 7-8 hours sleep both nights on the weekend but still the body is rebelling.

The boss saw that i clocked about 20 hours OT last week (all unpaid), asked if anything could be done to help fix this, and when