Good things first: read the John Adams bio, which was AWESOME. If you haven’t and you enjoy history, revolution and a love story for the ages, this could be a book for you. Have been especially fertile with writing too. Listening to mush music, spending time with friends. BUT works been difficult. I am going to break a rule I had formed in my head and talk about work on a blog. But I need to speak.
In general, I have enjoyed working where I work. I have pretty nice, quirky co-workers, have a varied week b/c my projects change every week (one of the best parts of being a project manager), and my schedule is 8:30-4:30. All v.good things I appreciate. However, the work load has been outrageous, I am now at the level where ‘no errors will be tolerated.’ To say I am stressed is an understatement. I had a moment where I cried in the bathroom. It felt criminally GOOD to cry- the release was splendid. But this leaves me to ponder. . .what shall I do with myself? Is this where I want to be? What DO I want to do with my life? I don’t know the answers to these questions but I want to start thinking about the possible answers. For three years, I have been trying to be practical, methodical and efficient. I am all of those things but I am also denying what I call ‘weekend’ self. Yet I Don’t want to make any hasty decisions based on the anger I sometimes feel with the job.
Tomorrow is Leap Day. Exciting. In honor, I cut my hair a tad shorter and in a slightly funkier way. Hair makes a huge difference, my peeps. Go Hair!
I so have to see the funky hair!
And read the John Adams bio. That Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney are John and Abigail Adams is way cool…
Work… The higher you rise, the more stressful it becomes. What irks me about your company is that they do not see fit to compensate you adequately for the amount of stress they are putting you under. Not that a higher salary would alleviate the stress in any way, shape or form. But the standards they are holding you to, should be the same standards they are holding themselves. And you KNOW they’re making mistakes, left and right, that you’ve had to clean up for, in the past…