Plate Spinning
2:00 PM 5/2/2006
I’m struggling to keep everything together right now. It’s fun until things actually do fall apart - like being weightless during freefall. Work seems a lot less important when the pressure is on at school, but there’s one major hurdle at work I’ve been forgetting about. My boss is going to Australia for at least two weeks, and we’ve gotten rid of practically everybody else. So just like I’m the team leader in my PM class, I could step up and lead here. Only problem is: there’s nobody to lead. It’s another case where I’m the worker. And I’m not even all that great of a worker. Am I supposed to have any help in that interval? Meanwhile, I’m being asked more and more to account for micro-slices of my time. Maybe that’s a good skill to have, but the real trend in my life is toward multitasking. Visualize a three-ring circus. I have to keep circulating from one area to another, and it’s not so easy to say what I was working on a couple hours ago, or if I was even working at all - sometimes I have to back off and consider the big picture, or even just veg out for a few minutes. In that vein, I’m hoping to direct that energy into this page. More often than not, the thoughts I have are not coherent. Just turning my attention to the sheet of paper or the weblog window can scare away the feeling that I know what I’m actually thinking. When there is pressure to arrive early and stay late everywhere I go, something has to give. Time has to be juggled.
Posted by Evan Bittner Tue, 02 May 2006 19:00:00 GMT
