Some of you may have noticed that I haven't been online much the past few weeks. This is because I recently got a promotion at work that has taken my already crazy life to a whole new level.

I have been working as an engineering intern at my company for awhile now and they decided to bring me on as an "actual" employee. This came with a slight increase in salary (from $33 per hour to $35 per hour working 40-60 hours a week) and added a significant amount of traveling.

I should mention that I am a full time college student as well. Luckily my boss is very understanding, and I have flexible hours/do a lot of work from home. Even still This leaves very little free time and now that I am having to travel all the time I find myself studying for classes in airports/airplanes more than I am at home.

In the past few weeks I have been out to Glendale, California... up to Toronto, Canada... and all the way to Frankfurt, Germany. Honestly I don't think that I can keep this up long term. The jet lag alone is killing me.

I'm at a loss of what to do. I love my job and I am extremely thankful for it... I can't stand the thought of letting my boss/coworkers down, but as a student I can't let my classes/grades slip away.

We are in the very beginning stages of a new project so I am hopeful that the amount of travel will go down once we move into the prototyping/production/testing phases of this project... but I know that I will be right back in this same situation in a few months when we start the next project.

I guess that this was more of a rant than anything else... thanks for reading. any thoughts/comments are appreciated.