One of the people in my three-person department got fired last week and for the first time since I started this job in January, I have enough work to keep me busy for most of the day.
It’s an adjustment because I’ve spent the last six months or so developing the habit of “do whatever the fuck I want on my computer as long as my email is open just in case I have a client with an issue” and this week has been “Oh God these people won’t stop emailing me, jesus christ!” and “Who are you again? Haven’t I already answered this question three times today?” and it’s been a little exhausting. I’m starting to get the hang of things now, but this week was a lot to take it.
The other really bad thing is that it’s thrown off all my plans for quitting this summer. I know that this isn’t necessarily my problem, but I don’t want to be responsible for the chaos that will ensue when I quit and ALL my company’s clients become the responsibility of the one person who will be left on my team. Somehow, I don’t think that I will get very good references if I do that...
Build myself a freaking portfolio website.
Write content that I can actually put on said website, on this blog, and on my Linkedin account.
Update my resume so that it reflects more of the client relationship stuff and less of the social media marketing crap.
Figure out where I want to work and how much of a commute I will be able to reasonably manage.
Actually apply for other jobs.
I’m giving myself until the end of September to do those things. That’s two months. If I were really gungho, I could get all of that done in two weeks. But I’m not, so that’s where we are right now.