I’m soooooo feeling whiney right now. I don’t want to go to work tomorrow. This was a 3 day weekend and it still wasn’t enough time off. The summer is always our busiest time at work and I’ve been so crazy lately that I can’t imagine what the summer is going to be like!!!!
It was easier when I was a Project Manager and I just had my own clients to worry about and I had complete control over how busy my schedule was going to be and I could actually get on top of my schedule. Now I’m constantly in demand by the people in my department as well as by my boss and the other managers. One of my peeps said to me earlier this week, “It seems like you have a hand in a little bit of everything across the company…” It was pretty depressing to hear it. The girl who was the manager of my department before me got burnt out after almost a year in this position and I swore to myself that I’d learn from her. Now I feel like things are a little out of my control and I’m headed in the same direction. I frequently tell other people “No” and I am realistic with people about what can and can’t be done… But somehow a ton of shit always ends up on my plate. I guess it’s because there are a lot of changes that have to happen within the company since we’ve grown so fast over the last few years and my department happens to be in the middle of everything.
I keep thinking that if I could just figure out a way to organize myself I’d feel better. It was easier with projects because we have CRM software that client info is tracked in and I perfected my method of tracking projects with it. Now that my tasks aren’t client specific, I need to find another way of organizing myself. I have a copy of MS Project, but I haven’t taken any time to try and learn it and I think that it will be too complex for my needs. I used Outlook, but I think that just using the tasks in Outlook might be too simplistic. I’m like the freaking Goldilocks of organizational software. For now, I’m using Remember the Milk because I have a dashboard widget for home, a yahoo widget for my work computer, and access to it from my iPhone so I can always access my tasks… Oh, and it’s free. 
I’m not in love with it yet… but it might grow on me. I’m also reading David Allen’s Getting Things Done and I’m liking it and think that it might help.
I just kind of wish I had an office at work. There are so many ideas that I have to improve the department and processes that I’d like to flesh out and I’d like to take some time to get organized but having a cube in the middle of the room makes me too accessible by everyone and I never get things done. So an office with a door and air conditioning that works. That would make me happy.
Ok, enough whining. Must try and relax and not think about work so that i can unwind and actually get to sleep tonight before I go and get all amped up again at work tomorrow.
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