work insanity

so it's day two on the new job. already i am slightly tearing my hair out.

here's the thing to remember: i'll complain about being busy and stressed, but deep down, i love this job even when it's killing me.

while i am glad not to be a victim of this latest round of layoffs, i am certainly feeling the repercussions. a giant reorganization is taking place, and a big part of my daily role is changing to something i'm totally unfamiliar with and, i'll be honest, totally scared of.

as is typical with my agency, training is vague and complicated and short, and they were ready for you to start doing the new job yesterday. i've already gotten a few requests from eager superiors trying to get me to help them with this new stuff, and i literally have to stop them and say "okay, yeah.. i'm not done being trained yet. i have no idea how to do what you're asking for." scary, right?

but it's sink or swim here.. and i'm determined to swim. so i'm shouting from the rooftops for help and it seems to be working. i've set up calls with people who know what they're doing, so they can walk me through these exercises and get me up to speed. i WILL figure this shit out.

on top of all this, all these random jobs are coming out of the woodwork and i don't want to turn them down, but i am already feeling overwhelmed.

to add to the stress and make it an official "stress trifecta", there are three people who share my job role on my team, and we all split the workload. we're all getting trained on this new job role and we're all equally overwhelmed. well, yesterday i just got word that one of us three just resigned to go work elsewhere.. which means... MORE WORK FOR ME! that's right, we're not hiring someone to replace him, just spreading the work around.

i'm bracing for insanity. i'm bracing for long nights.

but i'm also stoked to get back in the action.

ask me if i'm still stoked in a week though, and i'll probably give you a death stare as i pour myself another shot of whiskey.