Tuesday, March 22, 2005
A curse or a gift?
Most of today I spent in the office at MasterVisions. It was my usual day to help clear up the logjam from the weekend, namely three days of orders, drop-ship inquiries and the like.
It was more hectic than usual. Granted, I went in a little later today because the kids were off from school and I decided to sleep in a little. And I really didn't get started on the tasks until nearly lunch time because Mark and I spent so much time talking about directions for the future and discussing what specific projects I would work on.
But, still, I was rushing to get through my normal Monday tasks and barely got them done even though I stayed until 5 PM. Managing the drop-ship program has become a major portion of my Monday. I never would have guessed that it would turn into such a huge part of the business.
It's also becoming more clear that transitioning this daily work to Mark will not be as quick and simple as either Mark or I thought. There was no time for training Mark on some of the things I had planned to, and everywhere I look, I see another task that I'll have to bring him up to speed on before I can turn it over to him.
It seems I've become pretty tightly integrated with MasterVisions and it's going to take time to transfer those responsibilities. Is that my curse or my gift?
The same thing happened when my "two-month" consulting gig at Wells Fargo turned into eight years. Even then, my work there ended only because an edict was issued way above my supervisor's head that all long-term consultants throughout the company had to go.
I just seem to step into a position and quickly gain so much trust that I'm given almost unlimited freedom to carry out my work as I think best. Which leads to absolutely nobody else there having any idea how to do what I do.
This is the second time it's happened now. It's bizarre. I've never known of anyone else where that's happened even once and it's happened to me twice.
But the transition will happen and life will move on. That's the exciting thing about life; you never know what'll happen next.
Embrace the unknown,
Jeff
Most of today I spent in the office at MasterVisions. It was my usual day to help clear up the logjam from the weekend, namely three days of orders, drop-ship inquiries and the like.
It was more hectic than usual. Granted, I went in a little later today because the kids were off from school and I decided to sleep in a little. And I really didn't get started on the tasks until nearly lunch time because Mark and I spent so much time talking about directions for the future and discussing what specific projects I would work on.
But, still, I was rushing to get through my normal Monday tasks and barely got them done even though I stayed until 5 PM. Managing the drop-ship program has become a major portion of my Monday. I never would have guessed that it would turn into such a huge part of the business.
It's also becoming more clear that transitioning this daily work to Mark will not be as quick and simple as either Mark or I thought. There was no time for training Mark on some of the things I had planned to, and everywhere I look, I see another task that I'll have to bring him up to speed on before I can turn it over to him.
It seems I've become pretty tightly integrated with MasterVisions and it's going to take time to transfer those responsibilities. Is that my curse or my gift?
The same thing happened when my "two-month" consulting gig at Wells Fargo turned into eight years. Even then, my work there ended only because an edict was issued way above my supervisor's head that all long-term consultants throughout the company had to go.
I just seem to step into a position and quickly gain so much trust that I'm given almost unlimited freedom to carry out my work as I think best. Which leads to absolutely nobody else there having any idea how to do what I do.
This is the second time it's happened now. It's bizarre. I've never known of anyone else where that's happened even once and it's happened to me twice.
But the transition will happen and life will move on. That's the exciting thing about life; you never know what'll happen next.
Embrace the unknown,
Jeff
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