Life Updates of a Larger Magnitude

It has been a particularly stressful week at work. Thankfully, not combative, just very very busy. I am sad to see how many of my awesome and respected coworkers are just so unhappy. I am currently wondering why a company takes good employees and then squeezes the spirit out of them. Does this need to be the corporate model to get ahead? Is this just the mountainous workload talking? And to my benevolent coworker that forwarded my blog along to HR, I am sure you had good intentions, but... Next time please talk to me first.

I'm currently on-site for a gigantic new project that has just kicked off and the day has been chock full of things that have overwhelmed or flustered me... until I shifted my perspective, at which point I realized that all these things are quite simply awesome. First, Fort Jackson. Hot damn this place is hugiferous. The project is one of the largest we've tackled, with about 600 buildings included and some pretty complex stuff. We're assembling a pretty large team, and I get to be second in command on the engineering side. Wow. I'm overwhelmed by the amount of work, and really really excited because I think we can knock it out of the park. So basically we spent the day driving around and talking to people, and little by little I'm starting to see how we might possibly accomplish all that needs to be accomplished in the next 6 months or so... And speaking of meeting people! There is a lot of data to be gathered in my line of work, and a lot of fun people...