The Outlook outage meant I got to sit and just focus on some documents I needed to focus on, analyse, and turn, without having to constantly check through a barrage of emails and respond promptly to those for me. This meant I got to do some deep thinking on issues analysis and, what's more, it was during business hours (and not deferred to late nights or very early mornings when there's some respite from email traffic).
And I loved it.
I have felt so deflated doing this job and feeling simultaneously overstressed but incredibly bored and understimulated. This has worsened over the last 6 months. And today made me realise that a big part of it has been that I just don't feel like I'm getting to really deeply think about the legal issues in front of me because of constant time pressures and email distractions.
I genuinely enjoyed the work I did today. I don't mind at all that it took me late into the night to get this issues list to near completion. I'm genuinely looking forward to presenting this to my client as something I am excited to claim ownership for and to talk them through it.
I just wanted to put that out there. It's a surprising feeling so just wanted to share. Would love to hear if anyone else feels the same.
*Edited for typos, lol.