It is time for another weekly entry again, but if I want to be optimistic about it, it means that I have survived a full work week which I wasn’t looking forward to.
It was definitely a busy week, arguably the busiest one since I started work at this place, but it probably won’t remain as such for long. The coming weeks are probably going to be busy, not only from the tasks which belong to the individual contributor me, but also the various things I will have to handle as the supposed lead role but not given any official recognition nor compensation for it. Perhaps I will talk more about that at a later time, or maybe not at all, but it’s not really the most important thing that I have managed to learn this week. Previously it was merely rumours that I have heard some a couple of sources, but I pretty much got confirmation that it is not just mere rumours.
Sure, it is not officially announced yet and the changes are thus not yet in effect, but it is going to be such a controversial change that it would almost certainly force me to make a decision that I would have delayed for at least a while more. Oh well, if it comes to that, then I guess I will still have to follow through with what I had thought about. It will not be a glamourous part of my career and probably many will consider it irrational, but I think it is probably better for myself at a personal level, given how I have managed to witness many more things first-hand even though I have not taken over some of these duties for long. While I may not have worked in many different workplaces before, I guess just being in the workforce for some years has led me to be able to detect some of these red flags. Not sure how much time I have left, but I will try my best to remain professional and true to my own ethics while I am there.
Backlog wise, it continues to be slow moving. I mean, it isn’t very realistic to have a whole lot of progress if I just had my busiest work week in recent times. That said, I guess whatever time I spent on my backlog items seemed more enjoyable as I prioritised things that could calm me down or I would not feel the kind of ‘obligation’. The drafting pace is definitely slowing again, but at this point I don’t really have much energy to bother about it. Depends on how things really go, maybe it will pick up again later this year, or maybe I will be “worse off” and it dwindles further. Lol, but I think I will prioritise the relaxation process rather than trying to push the numbers up.
I guess this week’s entry is probably on the longer side in this category, thanks to my relatively long writing related to work. In fact, there’s a lot of things I haven’t said and maybe I will talk more about it in future. Maybe it still wouldn’t happen, but it is definitely not happening today. It is probably not going to be a pretty week ahead once again, so here’s me hoping I survive it relatively okay. Or maybe I shouldn’t care all that much anymore and do the bare, bare minimum. We’ll see how next week’s entry goes to find out how it went for me. Lol.
p.s. Happy Mother’s Day to those who explicitly celebrate it.