Work anxiety
Dec. 1st, 2006 08:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serenissimaEventful things have been happening at work this fall -- changes in management. So far they don't affect me much besides keeping me busy, but my boss got promoted yesterday, which I expect will mean I'll be even busier.
We still have an instructor position unfilled (a position for which I'm not qualified, nor do I want). They really need my help here at the office... and I'm spending more time at work, mostly because one of the people I carpool with works longer hours now, but sometimes because I have tasks that need doing that aren't finished by 5 PM.
Administrative assistance and I are not well suited for each other. My ease using MS Office is useful, but ideally they should have someone who is much better organized. I like things to be organized, but past a certain level, I'm not especially good at keeping things that way myself. My desk is covered with many different stacks of paper. I still have a box of class attendance records from 2005 that I never ended up entering into the computer, because they were last priority.
Actually, data entry isn't bad; filing isn't bad; typing isn't bad; making flyers and PowerPoint presentations is even kinda fun. But keeping up with a dozen different tasks that need to be followed up drives me crazy. I do not like multitasking. I'd rather stick to one thing all morning, without interruptions like phone calls or requests to look up something for someone. Also, our Excel spreadsheet system of record keeping has severe faults, and although we've been asking for years now for a better package, none has been forthcoming. Getting the data back out of the spreadsheet in a useful format is a pain I have come to dread.
I want so much to take time off, but that would mean more work would pile up while I was away, and I'd return having forgotten what to do with the stuff I was working on when I left.
We still have an instructor position unfilled (a position for which I'm not qualified, nor do I want). They really need my help here at the office... and I'm spending more time at work, mostly because one of the people I carpool with works longer hours now, but sometimes because I have tasks that need doing that aren't finished by 5 PM.
Administrative assistance and I are not well suited for each other. My ease using MS Office is useful, but ideally they should have someone who is much better organized. I like things to be organized, but past a certain level, I'm not especially good at keeping things that way myself. My desk is covered with many different stacks of paper. I still have a box of class attendance records from 2005 that I never ended up entering into the computer, because they were last priority.
Actually, data entry isn't bad; filing isn't bad; typing isn't bad; making flyers and PowerPoint presentations is even kinda fun. But keeping up with a dozen different tasks that need to be followed up drives me crazy. I do not like multitasking. I'd rather stick to one thing all morning, without interruptions like phone calls or requests to look up something for someone. Also, our Excel spreadsheet system of record keeping has severe faults, and although we've been asking for years now for a better package, none has been forthcoming. Getting the data back out of the spreadsheet in a useful format is a pain I have come to dread.
I want so much to take time off, but that would mean more work would pile up while I was away, and I'd return having forgotten what to do with the stuff I was working on when I left.
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Date: 2006-12-02 01:29 pm (UTC)