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I felt motivated today to spend a little time updating my site so I changed the theme and cleaned a few things up. I’m hoping to spend a little more time thinking and writing this year.

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It’s been so long since I’ve written here that I can hardly remember the last time I even thought about writing here. I got a fortune cookie message that told me I deserve a good time after a long day at work and it really made me stop, think and reflect on the past few months of my life since I’ve moved back to Seattle. It’s been a mix of things good and bad, but overall I think moving back is a move in the right direction for me.

My life, since being back, has been dominated by work. I haven’t worked this hard ever in any professional capacity. I told this to a friend lately, and he said that I say that about every job. That made me wonder if it always just feels busy while I’m in the middle of it, or if I’m taking on increasingly challenging roles and responsibilities. I tend to think it’s the latter.

Moving from my last job to my current job has been quite a transition. The company cultures are nearly polar opposites and I feel like this has been a change for the positive given my personality and preferences for a work environment. I find my current company to be very open, energetic and full of driven people. People take on cross-functional roles too, which I really enjoy because of the exposure to different aspects of the business. I’ve been involved in design, product development, procurement, architecture and development discussions. I love it.

The flipside to being happy with the work is the amount of it. I’m regularly working 60-70 hours a week, easy. While it’s true that it doesn’t feel like work most of the time while I’m in the middle of things, I do find it is compromising my life outside of work. I get in early, leave late, check and respond to e-mail even later and lose some if not all of my weekends on a semi-regular basis. I’m not getting to the gym as much as I want to, I haven’t taken care of some life basics – WA driver’s license, WA auto insurance, dentist and eye appointments, etc.

Why continue this lifestyle? Well it’s the vicious circle of enjoying my job and then taking on more than I probably should. My plan is to get some work/life balance in place once my wife moves up here. Hopefully I can get it all together by then!