Work has been unusually heavy lately… I think I’m in one of those excellent “bubbles of work” where a lot of little, value added tasks all accumulate to form a giant monster that ends up devouring work days with status meetings, design sessions, and educating others. Honestly, it feels a lot like the later years at my last position. I know enough about the projects that are going on to be “needed” on a lot of fronts, which results in a neverending cavalcade of meetings.
The last two days, I’ve not gotten lunch until after 2 pm. Some of you might say “well, at least you get lunch”, but I’m consciously making myself take that time so I don’t go completely insane. I think this is just one of those momentary periods of pain that one tends to go through in a big project so I’m trying to keep upbeat, but it has been tough the last week or so. I’m continuing to transition into a role that requires me to do less coding and more leadership, project definition, and planning. I like this change in work, however it is forcing me to view my job skills in a different way. My value to the team is no longer in coding up Awesome Stuff, it is helping to enable others to code up Awesome Stuff and realizing that and appreciating where that value comes in has been part of the problem.
I’m working through it, slowly and surely!
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