Again, I don’t really know what to say lately.
Work is so GD busy that I’m overwhelmed and I feel like every step I take is one step forward but puts me two back. I can’t get it all done, but I’m trying. And I know it will never let up. This is how it’s going to be since my product manager was let go on the day I left for France. I was not in a place to worry about it then, but it sure is catching up with me now.
In addition to the role I was already playing as a team leader to this group, I’m taking on two additional full time roles (the PM who was fired and her assistant). Luckily, there is one other assistant in this group who actually has her shit totally together and is helping me, though she works for someone else. She is a lifesaver and I’m eternally in her debt.
I’m also now working on these projects that are celebrity endorsed (licenses), so I get to work with divas and 3rd and 4th parties who are extremely hard to chase down. My schedules revolve around theirs (mostly West Coast - Los Angeles folks who have TV shows and we always have to work around filming schedules, etc.).
Oh, and haha…I am also working inventors who pitch their ideas to me as if I’m one of the billionaires on Shark Tank! That’s kind of fun too, but these inventor folks are sometimes as hard to pin down as the celebrities. I literally just had a conference call postponed for the 5th time by an inventor whose product we are actually going to take to market. One would think that we - the manufacturer and marketer would be the most important people on the block, but apparently not.
So, in a half an hour (after 5PM for me), I will be talking to a multiple Emmy Award-winning television star, trying to pitch him logos and product design updates. This guy is extremely handsome and not modest in the least. On our last phone call I asked him to send me headshots and full body shots and he asked me if I wanted him to send me one of him in a Speedo. I wish I was kidding…and I also kinda wish that he’d done that.
Anyway, the only reason I’m able to tap out an entry now is because I canceled a meeting so that I could look at something else before my 5PM conference call. And now I need to go ask my engineer if he’s made any progress on the design I’m supposed to discuss with the TV star in a few minutes.
I’m tired, y’all. Almost too tired to think about the election…either that or I’m in denial. I’m too afraid to wrap my brain around it all.
I wish I could just go into hibernation for the next 4 years, but I can’t even imagine what the world would/will look like by then. I honestly hope it’s still here. I hope I’m still here. I hope for so much…
xo,
GS
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