These words rang like bell in my ears when me and my immediate manager were discussing about my chances of going for a vacation this year. Sadly, I can’t go because of our upcoming Rosetta 2 website project. Just last month, I was assigned as a team leader of our team and because of this I became responsible for all the project requirements pertaining to the website. According to my boss, initial testing and deployment are all due this coming month of May, so my presence in the office is critical for the smooth workflow.

I was devastated. Everybody back home is already expecting to see me this May, but I guess we all have to wait for another year to see each other. Hopefully, if everything goes well in the project and deployment from testing to live goes according to plan, I can again talk to my boss about my chances of going for vacation before the year ends (maybe October or December), but I don’t want to put my hopes up high, projects like this take not less than a year to stabilize and run smoothly. For sure issues will arise after the website is deployed and more will appear as we go along the testing.

Just wish me luck, I hope I can still conquer the longing of seeing my loved ones again.