The past month has been a mini roller coaster of emotions. Mini because there were no tears (like there usually are), but a roller coaster nonetheless.
I have gone through brief moments of desperation, followed by longer periods of utter joy, followed by weeknights of absolute boredom. I’ve hit every point, high and low, as I cope with the change of environment.
The pace of life is definitely slower on this side of the profit line. It’s exciting work, but I keep having to remind myself that just because I am moving slower it doesn’t mean that I’m not pulling my weight, and yesterday I got my confirmation.
Ever since a certain intern left, they’ve been giving me small side projects that fall within my main core competency: manipulating thousands of rows of data in Excel and sending mass bitchy emails (mail merges) telling users they are not compliant with whatever arbitrary policy we are choosing to enforce this month. Well, after cleaning up the mess the intern left behind, and redrafting the utterly incomprehensible emails, I got my system down and efficiency up and everybody noticed!
Apparently the champions of the initiative went over to my boss and said I was doing such a great job that they wanted me to switch teams. I know they were only joking, but they did tell me that they called me “super abi” in the other office. They love me!
It felt good to do something right… Especially since my job requires a lot of learning and not enough “accomplishing” right now. It’ll shift, but it’s great to have an outlet for my ambition in the meantime.
Way to go!
abi
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