Anthony Reinke » busy http://www.anthonyreinke.com Rambling Thoughts of a Random Mind Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:03:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 On-Call http://www.anthonyreinke.com/2009/07/02/on-call/ http://www.anthonyreinke.com/2009/07/02/on-call/#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:38:02 +0000 Anthony Reinke http://www.anthonyreinke.com/2009/07/02/on-call/ It is that time again for me. On-call at where I work means little sleep and a lot of work. The first wasn’t too bad. I stayed busy during the day. I left for home (around an hour drive) and didn’t even make it out of town and had to turn around. Worked till 7:30pm and then headed home. Got paged when I was about 15 minutes from my house. Got home and fired up the laptop. I was on that call until 2am. Went to bed and woke up at 5:45am like I normally do. Off to work at 6:50am. Work today has been constant. The bad part is that this is a holiday weekend so there will be no level 1 support fielding the easy calls. This also means that I will get every page this weekend. Could be worse, could be a lot worse.

There is something about on call that is fun. All day long you have that level of anticipation of when the next page is coming. Then when you get the page what is the issue. You got pressure to get it fixed fast as the company could be loosing money by the minute. That rush can be awesome. The lack of family time and sleep is not any fun, but that is the price of the job.

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