Burn out, Branch out, or Boredom

Lately I have been working three jobs. Monday through Thursday at a large insurance company, and Friday and Saturday at a University. Sunday was kept open for family and just to give my brain a rest.

I love SharePoint. But with so few people in the area with enough SharePoint expertise to support the ever-expanding need, I decided to help out the University on the "weekends". But this last weekend may have done me in. I ended up rebuilding a SharePoint web application with multiple subsites from the ground up. The reason for this was due to the Metalogix tool migrated some SharePoint components into the environment from 2007 version that actually caused more problems than it resolved. After a few weeks of having open tickets, the University decided it was easier just to rebuild it from the ground....easy...for them maybe...

So this last weekend was spent entirely rebuilding their site. This Friday I have a large presentation that I haven't started regarding My Sites, University SharePoint roadmap (which I still need to make), the future of SharePoint (SharePoint 2013), and how each role needs to be filled in the University. This is really my type of work and if it weren't for the uncertainty of billable hours, I would drop the insurance company gig and do the university gig full time. Such is not the case though.

With SharePoint 2013 out in preview, I would love to get into the guts of what is coming. I know there is an additional 5 thousand lines of CSS, but I would love to disect it and build the reference guide.

The last thing I want to do is burn out on SharePoint. With Las Vegas coming, I want to be as knowledgable as possible walking into some of these sessions. But I fear I may burn out by then. Sticking with two jobs is option one.

Option two is branching out. A friend of mine and I havedecided to start another company that I think will go very far. This one is exciting as well but pay little to nothing in the begining. But in the long run, it could be huge. We call it out "retirement plan". I call it taking our ideas and making serious money. If I spent my "other than 40 hours" working on the new venture, I am sure we could be self-sufficent within a couple years. So do I drop the University gig and lose out on the revenue to pursue it? This will allow me to still enjoy SharePoint without fear of burn out...and it will still give me an outlet I enjoy.

Option three is not really an option. When we first moved to Central Illinois, it was great! We had time to slow down, look at the black soil, and be a family. That lasted about 4 months for Andi and I. As much as I love looking at my beautiful wife, we were both bored out of our minds. So she started a soap company, and I took on the university gig. No more boredom.

So this is my turning point, stick with what I have, or make a change...that is the question.

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