Jobiness
As of today, I am officially the Development Manager of my branch of the organization! :D I now oversee two full-time development staff, a part-time recent grad who will be here until the end of August, and any future staff joining the development team.
To be honest, I'm a bit wibbly about this advancement. Not because I won't excel at the position (I single-handedly guided my intern these past three months through Board meetings and proposal writing and a ginormous pile of reports and filing), but because added responsibilities = more stuff to do. Having staff who now report to me won't translate into less grudge work, no matter how keen I am on delegation. If anything, I'm going to need to set aside extra time to train a couple of new staff, and with two huge proposals looming and another one right at the heel of those two, I really can't spare any time to properly orient any new co-workers to the organization...
Boss Lady has been out of our office a lot (the organization has multiple offices, and she's been doing work at those other sites lately). Whenever she's not around, I end up being the one handling all development-related issues and problems. Just today, I spent all morning and part of the afternoon writing letters and attaching documentations to refute mistakes that auditors found on a couple of City contracts we have -- mistakes that we not only did make, but were made back in 2006! Needless to say, I made zero progress on my two proposals today. *eyes calendar, T minus 5 working days until the deadline*
I'm just a teeny bit stressed at the moment :\
But. I am glad about the promotion. Very happy, actually. If anything, I'm now at a junior management level and will be able to seek mid-level jobs in the future -- not that I plan to leave the organization anytime soon, at least not for another year. Or two. Or even three.
So now I'm starting Month 16 at a job I had initially thought I'd only stay for a semester. With things going well. With me liking my job most of the time... wow. Who'd have ever thought this ancient history major would ever find a steady, "real" job?
Life is strange when it throws out random blessings like that :)
To be honest, I'm a bit wibbly about this advancement. Not because I won't excel at the position (I single-handedly guided my intern these past three months through Board meetings and proposal writing and a ginormous pile of reports and filing), but because added responsibilities = more stuff to do. Having staff who now report to me won't translate into less grudge work, no matter how keen I am on delegation. If anything, I'm going to need to set aside extra time to train a couple of new staff, and with two huge proposals looming and another one right at the heel of those two, I really can't spare any time to properly orient any new co-workers to the organization...
Boss Lady has been out of our office a lot (the organization has multiple offices, and she's been doing work at those other sites lately). Whenever she's not around, I end up being the one handling all development-related issues and problems. Just today, I spent all morning and part of the afternoon writing letters and attaching documentations to refute mistakes that auditors found on a couple of City contracts we have -- mistakes that we not only did make, but were made back in 2006! Needless to say, I made zero progress on my two proposals today. *eyes calendar, T minus 5 working days until the deadline*
I'm just a teeny bit stressed at the moment :\
But. I am glad about the promotion. Very happy, actually. If anything, I'm now at a junior management level and will be able to seek mid-level jobs in the future -- not that I plan to leave the organization anytime soon, at least not for another year. Or two. Or even three.
So now I'm starting Month 16 at a job I had initially thought I'd only stay for a semester. With things going well. With me liking my job most of the time... wow. Who'd have ever thought this ancient history major would ever find a steady, "real" job?
Life is strange when it throws out random blessings like that :)