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For at least a year I’ve been running around with multiple projects on my plate, all of which have deadlines that are either in the past or too soon to be completed properly. It is an understatement to say that we are understaffed. If we aren’t understaffed then we’ve just got too many people going in irrelevant directions. I may be one of them. Today, for the first time in what feels like a year I got a clear concise directive from the director of technology at my site to drop everything I was doing and work on a single project that was causing production downtime. I sent an email out to cancel my appointments for the rest of the day and tomorrow, knowing that the project would take at least a second full day, and went and focused on that one singular project. Email was turned off, the blackberry was put aside, and I just worked. It was refreshing.
I know I’m not the only person who has a job like this – I always have things on my plate and there is rarely anyone willing to step up and tell me that their project has to displace all others. Instead they just tell me that I “might” have to work some overtime in order to get everything done that I need to do. Like I don’t do that already. If an extra few hours of work every week would get my job done then it would have been done a long time ago.
I’m not complaining, just saying that a change in pace is nice every once in a while. I wish I’d been home with more that 20 minutes with my kids before their bedtime. I wish I had more time to spend with my wife. I wish for one day every week or two that I could spend a regular 9 hour day working on a single project without any interruptions. That would be great.
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Sometimes all you need to do is to be left alone to finish 1 thing and you will soon see lots more things been completed. It just how some of us like to work, nothing like the feeling of finishing a task especially if its something you’ve been putting off or has taken an age.
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