A little bit about my new job at The Cutie Pie Company.
It’s stressful.
My boss is the founder and CEO. She’s young and super smart and continually manic. Her brain is moving 10,000 miles a minute and she’s impossible to keep up with.
It’s not that I’m slow! I mean, it’s one thing that I’m new and the assumption already is that I’ve been there six months rather than six weeks, but it’s literally assumed that I know exactly what I’m doing and my team should reflect that.
It should be exciting, but I’m chained to my desk every minute for fear that I’m going to miss one of the thousands of slacks that hit every second of the day. I feel much more like a…what are those things? A switchboard operator? Figuring out which project goes to which designer and then I have to check their work and give feedback and make sure every little “i” is dotted and every color looks like a sparkly little confection here at Cutie Pie.
And to top that off, I am not only the Design Director, in charge of ALL of the design work we crank out here, but because I have a product development background and the PD team is short-staffed, I’ve also been assigned PD projets. So, just layer another half a job on top of the wayyy over full time job and that’s how that is going.
But I’m not giving up, no sir and no ma’am.
I do feel like I’m going to have to somehow morph some things that are ridiculous right now and utterly unsustainable and focus on my strengths, which are mainly strategically bringing new concepts, ideas and stories to the table. And that way, we can build product around those stories.
I have to do the concepting stuff in my free time because there’s no time to do that in the office, but I think if I can play my cards right, I can figure this out and work it to everyone’s advantage.
Because I don’t know how long I can hang on being a task scheduler. It seems I’ve already fallen behind and gotten on my boss’s bad side today. The good news is, I’m not the only one. I mean, at least I’m not alone in my feelings. Literally NO ONE can outpace this person.
But honestly, when you’re a cancer survivor, you really don’t want to feel like this. You don’t have the luxury of years to waste feeling TENSE ALL THE TIME.
So things must morph.
I’m working on it.
GS
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