Happy Tuesday. I’m in the office in body but not in soul. There’s a million and one things to do, and I will get to them - I’m mentally preparing for the day.
My kind-of counterpart has just walked in the door. She gets here ½ hour later than I do and digs in before she even sits down! It’s pretty amazing. I wish I could just come in guns blazing every morning, but I have to sit down and gather my thoughts and drink some coffee and read reports (and my horoscope!) and prep myself. It’s going to be a decent day because I only have one meeting (how did that happen?!) and I can get a lot done, but I’m still a bit miffed that boss is MIA…I mean, not really - I know I can reach him eventually via email, but…whatev.
I have a phone call with a headhunter first thing tomorrow morning. We were introduced via a friend of mine who is a former haute couture buyer for one of the big luxury companies. This could be interesting and I’m looking forward to what her thoughts might be. The way I understand it is that there are a lot of junior positions out there and not many at my director and above level. I’m hearing that people are taking lesser-paying work just to have a job. I suppose it’s because my industry is changing rather quickly. I get that.
But I want to do something else - maybe create something? As in, create a job that doesn’t exist that people might not even know they want/need yet. I have all of these little ideas rolling around in my brain about what my passions are, but I can’t seem to form them into a marketable idea!
Meanwhile, time’s slipping through my fingers and my company seems to be sinking right before our very eyes. Sure, my project that I started last year is JUST now starting to take off (exciting!), but we need to take it into the millions of dollars before I can call it a success. I do have one big victory under my belt, which is a ½ million-dollar deal (YES!), and the rest of the sales so far is $250K, so…it’s a start, but so much more to go…and people are dropping like flies around here. After the big layoffs in October, nobody has been comfortable so they’re finding work elsewhere. All the good peeps are leaving. It’s a bummer.
…later…
OK. Gotten some things done. Good news is that the big financial meeting has been canceled for this week and I have been asked instead to give a presentation at the town hall meeting on Thursday. In a way this is a very good thing as I love giving happy presentations, but in another way, it’s bad news in that the CEO doesn’t want to talk about numbers this time! UGH.
So I will put together a happy presentation and set the other stuff aside.
It’s a funny coincidence as Super Geek has been texting me about how he’s leading a town hall this week at his company and how he needed to help his staff practice giving their parts. I told him to throw in some jokes here and there, and he’s sent me some horrible, punny ones. He makes me smile, for sure, but he doesn’t make me throw my head back with laughter like The Scot does. Why can’t we have it exactly the way we want it?
I am looking forward to dinner with Super Geek on Saturday - did I tell you? We are going for sushi at this cool restaurant in my neighborhood. He wants to walk the arts district and around my neighborhood parks and that makes me happy. He’s also invited me to a book signing for one of his author buddies in two weeks. I think he’s into me.
I have also lined up a dog walk date with a new Bumble guy on Sunday afternoon. I’m not super excited, but I’m hoping to be pleasantly surprised. You never know, right?
That’s all I got for a Tuesday morning. Need to get back to work.
xox,
GS
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