“You know George, the difference between us is that I do this job because I have been trained to do it.  You do it because you love to do it.”

                                General Omar Bradley to General George Patton, from the movie Patton.

It has been a very busy past few weeks.  In hindsight my instructions descibing my job in India should have raised more concern.   They are simply “Keep doing your current job, just do it from India”.      When things are at their busiest, as is the case now, my job involves 6-8 hours per day of meetings.   The consequence of being here is that most of those meetings are happening in the middle of the night.   This is making for long days and nights that are draining my energy for anything other than work.   Even setting out at lunch time and trying to find something good to eat seems too much trouble, I am bunkered in my office living off Coke and Danish Butter Cookies.     All of this would be intolerable if I didn’t love my job as much as I do.  I am coming up on 10 years here.    Right after I joined back in 1998 I had a rough time dealing with my manager.  I decided to set a rule: “If you go 5 days in a row of not liking your job then leave.”    That rule is still in force and I am still here.     In fact, I can’t imagine what life would be like with a bad job.   Doing what you love is the only thing that makes doing it 18 hours a day tolerable.

More updates to come, there is much to share from the home front…