I actually feel a little more rested today that I did not get to bed as early as I planned.  Work was the same-old-same-old with the exception that we found out in a meeting that yet another person is leaving the team.  With budget cuts and such with the state, we can’t fill the position until a month after the person leaves meaning that not only will that knowledge not be passed from the person leaving to the new person but that we will be yet more understaffed than before.  And I see no blue skies in the near future.  At this rate I’ll be the only one left by the end of the year. No one wants to get a job with the state with all of the financial woes because you never know if you’ll even be getting a paycheck next month.  And he IT people we need are in the sector of the employment picture that has one of the lowest unemployment rates and one of the shortest waits between jobs.   Recessions his state agencies hard.

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