Restructuring in Days of My Destiny

So we're restructuring the business. I've been left to do it all, to contact HR consultants and work out what I want. Funny how it's what I want all of a sudden when we are a committee.

I'm starting to like the Treasurer a bit more lately. Last night she emailed me and told me I'm doing a great job - which everybody has said - but she also warned me not to try to do everything and that others WILL sit back and watch and let me do it all and burn out.

The thing is....... I'm not trying to do everything at all. I'm simply an effective worker, researching where necessary, and not even for the committee's sake but my own! Lol. I get the feeling they're not used to an efficient person like me. So when the Director was still here, she wasn't good at what she did and so it was all about how crap she was at her job and how she never communicated or wrote reports properly... and yet here I am, getting back to people by the deadlines I'm given, and then I get told not to do too much? What the hell, ladies...

At the same time, I'm finding there's no friggin ORDER to anything. I've got the admin lady emailing the whole committee asking who will have children at the next meeting - and yet the child minder emails ME to ask!!! Like what?! And then the Treasurer gave me the contact details for some HR people that have worked with us before - and then the previous President is telling me that she also has a contact .. and turns out it's the same contact, which means more emails. Blah.

I found out that we are registered as a "charity" - when this happens, then committee members can be paid for certain work they do. Of course there are terms and conditions and I want to find out more, because seriously.. this role is pretty big and I don't see why I SHOULDN'T get paid. Talk about false advertising, farout.. all I was told at the start was that I would need to check emails a few times a week..... yeah right, that's just the beginning.

Anyway I'm still hopeful that things will improve. People need to:

1) Listen 2) Behave 3) Stop trying to micro-manage 4) Trust those that are in the positions to do their job 5) Have a set communication flow when people don't do their job.

In other news, my studies are going well. I'm so close to finishing my second-last assignment. I want to get it finalized by tonight so I can send it in the mail tomorrow. Then I'll start on my last module and after THAT I will have a Skills Gap assessment to do (due to the big chiefs changing the course since I started it. I need to do this Skills Gap thing so that the old version of the course - which I am on - is still nationally accredited).

It has crossed my mind to be Acting Director, or to perhaps even go for the Director position once we restructure and we outsource the parts that I happen to have no skills in. I was talking to L about it and I think he wants me to go for it. I think I could do it - it just feels a little bit daunting... but I think I could. Just need time to think about it, which is convenient, because restructuring the organization will take around one month. So that gives me time, lol. Anyway..... two other people have also told me I should/could be Director. So that's good feedback. But yeah....... we'll see what happens there. As L said, I'd still be in the field - as in, I'd still have something to do with Education and/or children..... as long as I finish my course and have that under my belt, then nothing else really matters, right?

But then I don't really know how much more involved I want to be in this organization aside from the role I already have. I don't know... it's in such a mess. It might not be in such a mess once we restructure though..... so.. something to think about.