Mood: 
For those of you who don’t know, I worked at our hockey hero’s namesake for over 5 years. The job started with 40-60 pound bakes, but by the time I quit in disgust it had doubled, with the same amount of time to do the job. My donuts were always the best of the bakers in quality, until about 3 years into the job. Others who started with the higher workload were able to adapt better because they never had it easier. I couldn’t, so I started working 10 and 11 hour shifts to get everything done while keeping up the quality.
That, combined with starting work at either 10pm or 6am, and switching back and forth at the whim of the boss, caused me to lose a lot of social life, and the weird sleep cycle did a number on my brain chemistry. In addition, the skin on my hands never recovered from washing them dozens of times a night, so I have a chronic dry skin problem, even to this day.
At some point in every job I’ve had since, I’ve had a dream about being back there. It let me know that I was not liking my current job in some way.
Last night, I had the dream again, except Timmy’s changed into a sweatshop of fryers and donut racks, and my current bosses were in charge. I was looking at the schedule to see when I worked next, but couldn’t figure it out. If I couldn’t figure it out, I would certainly be fired! But would it be so bad to be fired from a sweatshop?
This is undoubtedly because of extra hours I’ve had to work recently (I have to work this afternoon too) and certain recent executive decisions that I don’t agree with but have no control over, most notably that I will continue to be the only person doing software testing; no one else will be assisting me in the foreseeable future. I’m good, but I’m only one man. Software testing requires multiple viewpoints, or errors will be missed!
Hopefully everything will go back to normal once this big push for new features is over in July.
Don’t get me wrong: I love my job. I’m good at it, they let me know I’m doing well, and I’m paid accordingly. It’s the best job I’ve ever had. It just sucks to be so immersed in the cloud that you can no longer see the silver lining.