Some Long Days

This past week I have been working on a job that is a bit out of the ordinary for the Home Theater person that I am.  We were installing a system for a dentist training classroom.  When we started this week the walls we not painted, no wire was run, no carpet was laid and we had a solid deadline of this morning at 7:30am.  Although our work wouldn’t have taken a full week, it would have been nice to have longer than we had to do it as we weren’t able to start doing our work until Thursday and I didn’t even have power for my equipment until 3 or 4pm yesterday evening (which of course I needed to set everything up, to test the equipment and to program the remote).  We should have had power when we started on Thursday, but I think that the construction manager has been watching a little too much “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”, for his own good.  Because we had to wait on the other contractors to get their work done so we could do ours, we worked to 8pm or soon Thursday and 10:30pm on Friday (we start at 7:30am)

The short of it is that I should have had about a week to install all of my stuff, but had only two days.  This morning they started a class with 40 soon to be or already dentists and all the equipment had to be in and working for them this morning.  All in all we got it done on time.  To make sure everything was going to work well for their training thing today, I had to go in this morning at 6:30am (which on a Saturday should not be allowed).  But that kind of thing is what sets our company apart from all the others out there: we are going to make it work no matter what it takes and make the client happy.  I can feel good about getting up early or putting in long hours because I like working hard for a company that has the same high standards for the quality of, and can be proud of, the work we do.  After all, if I am not proud of the work I did, then I didn’t give it my all.

All in all the past 2 days I have logged 31 hours of work which should be fun come paycheck time (as I’m sure that I should easily get some overtime, which everyone loves).  I thank God for the opportunity of working at this company and for providing for our family.