I have been so busy at work that I haven't even had time to blog about it. No, seriously. One of the biggest struggles this fall has been trying to manage my time off. I can keep 120 hours of comp/vacation time over the new year and I have 160. Sound easy, right? Just take a week off around Christmas.
Can't. Not only that, but I'm actually accruing more comp time because I'm working more than 8 hour days. Luckily, as a contractor, I can get my "use or lose" time paid out like a bonus. It's heavily taxed, but it comes as cash none the less. I am getting 40 hours of time paid out this Friday.
What's keeping me at work? MTBS! We had a big deadline that we already missed in November that was pushed back to the end of the year. The task was to map about 1900 fires between 1984-2004 in the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Western Montana). Tons of fires! We were also supposed to map about 300 fires that burned in 2005.
We're still a few hundred fires short, but it is mostly due to slow data delivery from EROS. If we don't get satellite imagery from them, we can't map the fires.
I've personally mapped 27 fires in two days and my goal is 60 this week. Hopefully we can get more data in so those who are actually going to work most of the Holiday season have stuff to do! That's an additional challenge I face: I am managing the production and the 8 people assigned to map these fires. It's a constant struggle to keep them all busy.
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Life is tough and then you have kids and a wife, and a calling, and other really important things, too.
All this will give thee experience, someone said. I did not know you had eight people mapping for you, I thought just you did it. Wow, this is big time.
But then you are big time, too. So good luck to you.
Dad Clark
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