Finally I can blog from work without any worry about getting slapped on the wrist or otherwise running the risk of facing the sack, humiliation or public execution. My current contract is a 6 week development project that I’m doing from home. Before I left Dublin in January, I made sure to point out that if they were short handed and needed the odd bit of work done here or there that I’d be more than happy to do it. They took me up on it and I got a call from them at the beginning of last week asking if I was free to do a CMS system for a website.

Unfortunately I can’t say who I’m working for (i.e. my client’s client) because I want to maintain some professional confidentiality. It is for someone particularly high up the food chain in the Irish power and influence stakes (and no, it’s not Matt “Life Without Toast” Verso) which will look very good on my CV but also means I have very little margin for fuckups. And no manoeuvrability on deadlines.

Good thing the project timeline has a lot of contingency built in!