Seriously Overworked… But Still Here!

I KNOW I haven’t been posting much at the site in the last month or two, but there has been a very good reason.

Ever sice around mid January I’ve been working insane hours, and by insane I mean 18 hours a day, seven days a week on average. I don’t do this out of choice, but out of necessity.

I’m not sure how bad things are where you live, but here in Ireland the recession has hit hard, and it’s going to get worse. I’ve been around long enough to recognise the signs and every day there are announcements of either job cuts or salary cuts. It’s a continuous onslaught of bad news, day by day, week by week at the moment.

Everyone is facing tax increases, income levies, pay cuts, job cuts and more, no matter which industry sector they work in. As usual us standard workers have to pay for the fuck ups of both our inept Government (and their appointed regulators) and of course the real architects of this recession, the property developers and bankers they are all in bed with.

So – right now I’m working my arse off and doing everything humanly possible to keep a job, just like everyone else in the country who knows what’s coming. It’s not pretty. It’s not fun, but it is a reality I just have to deal with for a while so my time has been limited here at Avalon5, but rest assured I’m still around and twill be more active going forward once things settle down a bit. Right now however here seems to be a lot of activity taking place on the forums in relation to the open source multi vendor multi site e-commerce discussion so I trust that will continue in my absence, and if there is anything else I can do to help facilitate that topic progression let me know.

So in summary – gone for now, but not forgotten… And if you’re in the same boat as me then I wish you good fortune because we all need a little good luck these days.

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