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More relaxing than vacation

Most of the Finland, especially the IT industry is on vacation throughout the July. I instead opted to have my vacation a bit earlier and have been working most of the month already while others have been gone. Sure there are downsides like being a bit lonely and of course having some on-call duties (voluntarily, as a second tier if needed).

Working while most of the colleagues and customers are on vacation can be quite relaxing. When leaving for vacation you know that all the work will be waiting there when you come back. But when there isn't much of actual work happening it is a good time to do all the tasks that have been waiting in the backlog for way too long. Those things that have been buried beneath a more urgent tasks. They just stay there, a silent burden.

I've been able to catch up with lot of those  tasks during this month. Next week, when many of the colleagues and customers are starting to return from their vacations it'll get busy again. Projects resuming, new ones starting. A new pile of backlog items start to accumulate. But at least they'll be added to the end of a much shorter list.

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