Work

Sorry for the gap in posting I have hit the fall busy time for me! On that theme though something that really digs under my skin is peoples ambivalence towards my job. I love my job, I love the work and I love the people I work with. I will never name the company or what we do because there is a certain anonymity that should be kept. I do work in meetings though. What I do not appreciate is peoples inability to realize how hard I work or how hard my job can be.

It seems that a lot of people in my life seem to think that I do fluff work and that they could easily do my job. This hurts me because I have worked hard to be where I am today and I am still working hard to move forward and grow in my industry. I wish the nay sayers would walk a day in my shoes. It is hard to have to spend 5 days and constantly be on when I am at a meeting. What do I mean by this is that I am working 12 hour days and I do not have the ability to not smile or appear to feel like crap when sick. Even when the work day is over I am not done working because I am surrounded 24/7 by clients and I must always appear to be on my game. Now it might sound like I do not like my job but that is not that case. I love being able to meet my clients and be surrounded by the madness but it takes a certain personality to do this. This past conference was hard because I had a cold and it is hard to appear happy or perky when you feel like death but you just work through it. I guess the thing that weighs on my mind is when people say wow your job cant be that hard. Well guess what folks I have my downtime which can be a month or two at a time but when I have 5 meetings within three months there is no downtime, there is only working all day long and the distinct possibility of working all night as well. When we are busy we are all working hard. I love my bosses because they put in insane hours and I admire that they have been doing this job for so long and still love it. They give me the strength and the guidance to keep going but also tell me when I need to slow down and take a day to get better.

I guess all I want is the people in my life to say you know what you do work hard, I am sorry I think that your job is just fluff. I am not trying to say that my job is any harder than everyone else because I know that is not the case. All I want is some recognition that my job actually requires some skill and to not hear well you work in meetings that is just the fun stuff right? It's not trust me but all I want is a little respect. I try to give respect to everyone and what they do because a quarter of the time I know that I could probably not do their job. So all I ask is that people extend the same courtesy to me.

Sorry for the rant but after working two weeks straight I am sleep deprived and sick. I am off to bed and I promise a much more fun and upbeat posting tomorrow!

Till next time!
Meg