FML*
(Translation: f**k my life)
Venting needed.
Recently I got scolded by the Volunteer Program Manager at my park for falling behind on certain aspects of my job as the Volunteer Coordinator. Some of it was justified. I haven't been as efficient as I could be when it comes to using the time set aside in my schedule. BUT on the other hand, I also have been trying very hard to catch up on the backlog of everything that snowpiled (literally) on me when I missed a couple of weeks worth of volunteer hours in a row due to vacation and snow closures.
So here I am an hour and a half past the time that I would be done working, catching up on work emails. At home. For the 4th time in a week.
My frustration lies in the fact that I keep getting told that I need to make sure that I take my off-time and leave work at work. Yet when I do, I fall behind and can't get everything done because just 20 hrs a week to maintain a volunteer program of 100+ people and grow it at a rate of 10% a year is simply impossible! And the other 20 hrs a week I'm working at a site trying to not neglect my duties as an interpreter and as a mentor of the new staff that we have brought on board because there are so many other permanent rangers here who do.
How do I win? What can I do? Besides clone myself and work a total of 80 hrs a week for just one salary.
*throws arms up in exasperation*
FML!
Venting needed.
Recently I got scolded by the Volunteer Program Manager at my park for falling behind on certain aspects of my job as the Volunteer Coordinator. Some of it was justified. I haven't been as efficient as I could be when it comes to using the time set aside in my schedule. BUT on the other hand, I also have been trying very hard to catch up on the backlog of everything that snowpiled (literally) on me when I missed a couple of weeks worth of volunteer hours in a row due to vacation and snow closures.
So here I am an hour and a half past the time that I would be done working, catching up on work emails. At home. For the 4th time in a week.
My frustration lies in the fact that I keep getting told that I need to make sure that I take my off-time and leave work at work. Yet when I do, I fall behind and can't get everything done because just 20 hrs a week to maintain a volunteer program of 100+ people and grow it at a rate of 10% a year is simply impossible! And the other 20 hrs a week I'm working at a site trying to not neglect my duties as an interpreter and as a mentor of the new staff that we have brought on board because there are so many other permanent rangers here who do.
How do I win? What can I do? Besides clone myself and work a total of 80 hrs a week for just one salary.
*throws arms up in exasperation*
FML!