Real World... WOWzers

You can start to see my voice and ethusiasm die down by this email...

October 2007

Let's start off with the crazy stuff that started happening with my supervisor. She no longer works for the company. I think she would have benefited much from taking the class on ethics in the business world. After the no shows at work and countless other violations of everything I feel like I learned in that class, she was gone and no where to be found by the end of September. This end result left me to be supervisor-less. So then I thought this was a blessing in disguise, as I were to report to my Director. Great exposure. Great ability to show him what I can really do. Oh wait. He's leaving too! He commutes from out of state every week and I think the two year run was enough on his plate. Plus, I'm not sure how much he had to do with my supervisor leaving. Nevertheless, we met today, and concluded, again, I will be mentor/supervisor/one woman show here until further notice.

Which probably brings me to point number three... I don't think common sense was a subject taught in college. But I generally feel as though most of the students I encountered at school had some common sense. I feel as though sometimes the work place can get so hectic that common sense is the first thing that flies out the door. We have some consultants at our company, and all of sudden, a bunch of them get yanked from the project that basically affects the ENTIRE company's well-being, and the lovely consulting firm decides during the first week and a half of implementation, that it would be a good idea to reassign those who were the pilots of this ship we are on. I think I see an iceberg... and we're headed towards it! I think that sentence is a summary of how my department feels right now. Either way, I think common sense lacked.

On a side note, things are going well with networking! I must say, that being involved probably helped me a lot in getting over my fear of meeting people from all walks of life. I am running for a couple of vice president positions in the association I am apart of and headed up a committee for 2008. But what is great is one of my co-workers is running for president of the association and she was basically endorsed by the Board of the association to be their slated president... so it's a face lift for the association as well as the executive board. But she has been a great role model and very successful thus far in her career of only 2.5 years so far!

In terms of my co-workers, I've seemed to have noticed that it is evident who among us new hires were involved in school and activities while others went to school, studied and went home. I think it is in the way we communicate with one another and the mindset we each possess about getting involved in the company, doing something a little extra, and just know that the time invested in something that is often times irreplaceable, but what you put in and often times what you get from it. Although working at company is not a mandatory x number of hours of overtime, there are days that are long just because of the things that come up during the day. I've noticed that those extra hours put people in a bad mood -- that rubs everyone else around them in a not so fun way.

But I must say, I miss school tremendously. I think I miss the daily interaction of the professors I had that truly cared about how you performed, wanted you to learn as much as you could, but most importantly, gave you advice that you could take or leave -- but gave you advice. I think in the working world, it is more of a process to seek out than to really have it handed to you on a silver platter as sometimes is offered in the syllabus in the beginning of the semester, but as all grads say, some days, I do wish I were back in school -- minus the homework. :)

I am reading Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office and the Bamboo Ceiling. Quite interesting books related to business and success... I think I will be reading a lot more since it seems to shed light on everything that happens in the office on a daily basis. Currently involved with planning my trips for the rest of the year, so I can have sanity during the weekends away from work and the hectic city ... and one of my co-workers and I joke about how we can take over the world... we're like Pinky and the Brain from the Anamanics (Spelling...)! We each get wine, cheese and crackers from the other if we win.