Being at my new job, its certainly pushing old skills that I hadnt used for a long time while English Teaching. It was hard enough getting back on the coding horse, but the schedule were working to is extremely tight. We are to ship our working Beta for after the New Years holiday.

I'ts19th today giving us potentially 10 "working days" or "20 days", I'm currently doing the "render" feature which is only about 40% finished but has loads of bugs and still needs a lot of attention. The trouble is, I'm booked to go on holiday back to Scotland on the 23rd December, leaving the team in the lurch for the high pressure period. Makes me feel really guilty but its already paid for and I haven't been back to UK for nearly 2 Years. It's a tough one aright.




As a result we've all been asked to do overtime, everyday 10 till 10 or more, potentially 12 hour plus shifts. As I live quite a distance out of Tokyo, my last train is at 10 so I have to leave about 9:30, again this heaps on the guilt as the rest of the team are working well into the night !

Just the other day a team member asked me "What's overtime in Japanese ?" (I'm the dictionary as I have pretty good vocab.)

Hmm says here "zangyou", I replied.

I have a funny feeling this is a word I'm going to hear a lot of.