exhausted

[scottyman]

... i'm knackered.
started my new job at Quantel (www.quantel.com) about 4 weeks ago as Systems Engineer.
There's a learning curve like a brick wall - there's everything you know when you start, which is a lot... then there's a wall, which is everything you need to learn.
I've done three training courses - one on electrical safety which was hilarious - but it's mandatory for all staff to attend, and I've been upgraded from a level 4 to a level 2, so I'm safe to work on 415v systems
Second course was server training, which was supposed to be two weeks, but for some reason only took a week in my case, including tweaking documentation on upgrading a major version release (version 2.1 to 3) and one day's operator training.
Friday, I got to do my first ever hardware replacement - which was too much fun, along with having to rebuild a couple of raids (nobody really knows what raid is, or hyper-threading - pc's and servers really do seem to be a bit of a black art) then spent all day load testing a huge multi-server system on sunday.
I'm just completely shattered - but good shattered. Now I need my coffee.
Bad thing is the commute - it's an average of 80 minutes each way by car, so I've really got to look at getting a flat out there.
It's just such a blast working back in real broadcast again - I forgot how much I missed it.

[RedPutty]

Sounds like you are having a blast

[Lee H]

I too am exhasted and shaking slightly (naggly pain) at the present time.

Let me just say that 12 bottles of smirnoff ice Black and a bouncy castle should not be at the same party when I'm there.

Damn toe is numb, swollen and I can barely walk now. I think it's a sign to start acting my physical age and not my mental age

[DavidM]

A cup of our vending machine coffee will help there *

*You'll be too busy trying to get rid of the taste to think of your pains

[poolking]

Congratulations on the job

80 minutes each way commute is nothing compared to what some people I know

[scottyman]

lol - our coffee is like that too - you can have espress-choc if you really want to brighten your day - at least when the kitchen is open you can have real coffee.
still - i managed to claim travel for doing a site visit to a company which is on my way home, and did a full day's overtime yesterday, which is always nice