Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of my life...
Today, something I've been waiting for since early July, finally happened.
I've been appointed to a new position at the salt mine, effective tomorrow. It's a promotion, I'm going from a supervisor position to a management position. I'll be in charge of three fairly distinct functions, with a really long and fairly unwieldy title. I'm gonna need new business cards.
I'm pretty excited about it. I think it's going to be a challenge and it is going to push me in ways I haven't been in quite a while. And I do like to be pushed and challenged, no matter how much I bitch about it. I've been bored with my current position for a while, even though I've only been doing it for just over a year. It wasn't that different than anything else I've been doing for the last six and a half years since I've been there. This new position is something quite different despite still being strongly accounting focused, it's more operational. I'm going to have to learn new systems and processes. I'm going to have to deal with a wider range of people. I'm going to have to 'manage' people, potentially the most challenging aspect of all of this. I get an office and a fancy name plate for the door. And minions, lots and lots of minions. Okay, only ten, but I have faith that I can create some very impressive havoc with ten people (I was doing pretty good with three).
And possibly the biggest thing, I've felt 'better' since knowing this is going down. I think I was/am in a fairly severe rut which hasn't been helping my health or state of mind much over the last little while (who am I kidding, years). So yay!
I'll either crash and burn spectacularly or I'll be running the place in a year.
I've been appointed to a new position at the salt mine, effective tomorrow. It's a promotion, I'm going from a supervisor position to a management position. I'll be in charge of three fairly distinct functions, with a really long and fairly unwieldy title. I'm gonna need new business cards.
I'm pretty excited about it. I think it's going to be a challenge and it is going to push me in ways I haven't been in quite a while. And I do like to be pushed and challenged, no matter how much I bitch about it. I've been bored with my current position for a while, even though I've only been doing it for just over a year. It wasn't that different than anything else I've been doing for the last six and a half years since I've been there. This new position is something quite different despite still being strongly accounting focused, it's more operational. I'm going to have to learn new systems and processes. I'm going to have to deal with a wider range of people. I'm going to have to 'manage' people, potentially the most challenging aspect of all of this. I get an office and a fancy name plate for the door. And minions, lots and lots of minions. Okay, only ten, but I have faith that I can create some very impressive havoc with ten people (I was doing pretty good with three).
And possibly the biggest thing, I've felt 'better' since knowing this is going down. I think I was/am in a fairly severe rut which hasn't been helping my health or state of mind much over the last little while (who am I kidding, years). So yay!
I'll either crash and burn spectacularly or I'll be running the place in a year.