Easing into the New Year at Work
Jan. 2nd, 2026 04:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerToday was another workday for me. I mention that because a lot of my peers at other companies in the industry are off until Monday, 5 Jan. For me this week has been a workweek. ...Though Jan. 1 was a holiday, and I used a vacation day on Dec. 31. So it was a workweek of just 3 workdays.
Shortening the week to just three working days made it an easy ramp back in to working after having a week-plus off around Christmas. Also making it easy is the fact that things are slow. Lots of people in the industry being off this week means a lot of my customers are off, too. Or only part of their staff is back so they're moving slowly on things.
Next week will be the start of the new year in earnest, work-wise. It's unclear right now whether I'll be slammed right away as people pile back in to the office and want updates on everything, or ramps up slowly because people returning after 2 weeks away will need time to sort things out from their end first. I'll see next week. For now... it's a weekend already!
Shortening the week to just three working days made it an easy ramp back in to working after having a week-plus off around Christmas. Also making it easy is the fact that things are slow. Lots of people in the industry being off this week means a lot of my customers are off, too. Or only part of their staff is back so they're moving slowly on things.
Next week will be the start of the new year in earnest, work-wise. It's unclear right now whether I'll be slammed right away as people pile back in to the office and want updates on everything, or ramps up slowly because people returning after 2 weeks away will need time to sort things out from their end first. I'll see next week. For now... it's a weekend already!
