work-related rant
as i've said in my previous post, some stuff concerning work have been making me feel anxious lately. lemme rant about that now.
about two weeks ago, the office head, thru an e-mail sent to our unit, ordered that the task which has been my main responsibility since i came here a year and a half ago ("packaging" official statements/responses of the president as well as other top government officials on a daily/weekly basis for dissemination to cabinet members) be delegated to another office. he cited as the reason some bureaucratic "gobbledygook" which i find it hard to recall now. this, in effect, supposedly leaves me with no routine output to accomplish daily. but of course, i can't be left idle and get paid for it. so i understand starting this monday, i'll be joining my co-members in the "writers pool" in monitoring coverage of illegal logging and mining issues in certain morning programs on AM radio, again per instructions of the office head. also, and i believe this one would come more often than before, we'd be working on "random" technical tasks coming from the top, such as drafting a primer on the RP mining industry, keeping a directory of GOCCs and undersecretaries in all gov't agencies, even conceptualizing a new interface for the official government website.
i am, in short, facing major, stress-inducing changes as far as my workload is concerned. you see, we're supposed to be writers, yet since per our unit's mandate we can be required as well to accomplish "other tasks" as may be ordered by the office head, we have no choice but just to follow, regardless of whether or not those tasks involve writing, or even whether we are skilled, equipped or trained enough to efficiently handle them. variety is absolutely welcome, but having to force yourself into doing things which you know aren't what you're supposedly doing is another thing.
still, using a different perspective, this may just be my initial reactions to these changes after all, and i may shift my tone soon. but then again, as of the moment, i really don't see myself growing old in the bureaucracy. maybe a teacher, but not a civil servant.
honestly, i feel that my skills and my potential are not being optimized in my job. if this sentiment prevails, i might:
a. apply for a teaching job at a private high school in the metropolis;
b. accept my sister's offer to support my graduate studies hopefully in up, and work part-time; or
c. go back to the media (just the thought still excites me somehow, despite my uneventful and not-so-encouraging experiences from the distant past)
about two weeks ago, the office head, thru an e-mail sent to our unit, ordered that the task which has been my main responsibility since i came here a year and a half ago ("packaging" official statements/responses of the president as well as other top government officials on a daily/weekly basis for dissemination to cabinet members) be delegated to another office. he cited as the reason some bureaucratic "gobbledygook" which i find it hard to recall now. this, in effect, supposedly leaves me with no routine output to accomplish daily. but of course, i can't be left idle and get paid for it. so i understand starting this monday, i'll be joining my co-members in the "writers pool" in monitoring coverage of illegal logging and mining issues in certain morning programs on AM radio, again per instructions of the office head. also, and i believe this one would come more often than before, we'd be working on "random" technical tasks coming from the top, such as drafting a primer on the RP mining industry, keeping a directory of GOCCs and undersecretaries in all gov't agencies, even conceptualizing a new interface for the official government website.
i am, in short, facing major, stress-inducing changes as far as my workload is concerned. you see, we're supposed to be writers, yet since per our unit's mandate we can be required as well to accomplish "other tasks" as may be ordered by the office head, we have no choice but just to follow, regardless of whether or not those tasks involve writing, or even whether we are skilled, equipped or trained enough to efficiently handle them. variety is absolutely welcome, but having to force yourself into doing things which you know aren't what you're supposedly doing is another thing.
still, using a different perspective, this may just be my initial reactions to these changes after all, and i may shift my tone soon. but then again, as of the moment, i really don't see myself growing old in the bureaucracy. maybe a teacher, but not a civil servant.
honestly, i feel that my skills and my potential are not being optimized in my job. if this sentiment prevails, i might:
a. apply for a teaching job at a private high school in the metropolis;
b. accept my sister's offer to support my graduate studies hopefully in up, and work part-time; or
c. go back to the media (just the thought still excites me somehow, despite my uneventful and not-so-encouraging experiences from the distant past)