Timesheets

This morning I came in and was frustrated to find that all the blogs I check of friends had no new postings. And then I realized, who am I to complain - I never have postings. I was trying to put off for a few minutes the inevitable timesheets. It got me thinking. I work in the building profession - always have, even though I've changed careers and jumped back into school a couple of times. The problem is that you're a consultant and have to account for your time. And unlike some consultants, I generally work on multiple projects. Especially now. The benefit of my job now is that I just jump in during the parts of the project that have to do with sustainability. I don't have to deal with all the rest of the regular mumbo jumbo. But this means that I work on many many projects. Over the last several years I've moved up (in job description if not in title) so that I now manage multiple people managing multiple projects. My point is, that if I fall off the wagon, which I always do, trying to fill out my timesheets is a bear. I hate it. I just finished. It has been three years since I became an environmental consultant which is about my maximum stay and then I move onto another career. I'm not saying that I'm switching careers, but having just dealt with the bloody timesheets again, I thinking of all the jobs I might want that have no timesheets whatsoever associated with them. I wonder, will I ever have a point in my life where timesheets don't exist? (besides retirement of course). Well, the best way to escape timesheets is vacation - only three more weeks until Madrid and the exclusion of all timesheets.