The experiences and exploits of a college grad trying to make it in the "real world:" leaving school and friends in New England, moving south, and living with her boyfriend. Watch as I pretend to be an adult.
Elija's gone up North for the week to visit family and friends. While I miss him (a lot, actually, we have't spent much time apart since May), it's probably just as well he's not around at the moment. Things are absolutely crazy at work. I really shouldn't even be taking the time to write this, but, well, my brain feels rather like exploding. Our vender relation/marketing person is leaving. I'm leaving. And one or our most senior office people is moving, and so will be working substantially from home. Of course none of us is really disapearing. Nancy will pass most of her duties on to the office person, and carrying on telecomuting for a little. I will continue to do as much as I can from Raleigh through September, and then cut down to 20-40 hours a month in October. And the office person isn't leaving so much as changing jobs. She'll be taking on some of Nancy's duties, and some of mine. Nevertheless, all this change has thrown the office into tizzy. Responsibilities are being shifted around. New people are being hired. All sorts of people are being trained. Yesterday I trained two people we are hiring as contractors to do spreadsheet work. After about two weeks work coordinating with Nancy, we finally had a bunch of material developed for them, and a confidentiality/contract agreement worked up for them to sign. Training went pretty well, and I was happy with their understanding of the work. Then, today, one of the people sent in a spreadsheet, and, as our office manager put it, "It was a disaster." There were actually only two mistakes, but they ran through the whole spreadsheet, and it had to be fixed and sent back to the contractor so they could see what it is supposed to look like. I felt like a total failure. I know it's silly, and no one cares all that much, but I still feel like an idiot for makeing these mistakes/oversights during training. *sigh* In addition to the training, I have been given a number of new projects that are all ganging up to make my head swim. I'm apparently going to be in charge of handling weekly updates for some web advertising we've started- not that anyone informed me of this. I just started getting emails asking why the links weren't updated. A new data feed for another Froogle-like site is in the works, and should get done this weekend. I spent most of Wednesday drafting the confidentiality agreement/contract for the new hires I trained on Thursday. If there was any question in my mind regarding whether I would ever want to go into contract law, that has now been answered- hell no! And yet, before I leave, I need to draft a boilerplate confidentiality agreement that is more general for the other new hires we'll be doing in the next couple months. In addition, at some point I'm supposed to sit down with out bookkeeper and gather the information we'll need to develop a budget for 2006. Somehow, despite the fact that I've been putting in hours like crazy, I'm behind on a ton of work too. I need to catch up on my closeout/sold out lists, do a froogle feed, do spreadsheets for the fall lines of three venders, do descriptions for two venders, work on our second quarter financials, and train someone to take over for me in the web management aspect of my work. So this weekend will, most likely, be devoted to work. Well, it's almost 4:30 and that means it's time for me to lug my cute D&B tote laden with spreadsheets home, where I will pour myself a very large glass of wine and try to catch up.
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