Today was good.
Or that’s the spin I am going to put.
Basically, I messed up today and then I realized that … I can’t mess up 1/8 times as well. There was nothing except misinterpreted communication like, I have all the data and understanding to interpret it but … I hadn’t done as thorough of a job on an adhoc project as I usually do on a repetitive one and I messed up on that adhoc task. And that led to me comparing my performance and I found past 8 cases in this week where I correctly solved adhoc requests. This time, the only time that a client was on call and boss was traveling too, I was wrong, and boom. It led to an hourlong call where, to be fair, I was just feeling resigned. No matter how much effort I put to automate or delegate or no matter how many emails or prep docs I write to make sure nothing goes wrong, something is inevitably going to be wrong, and I am going to be on the wrong end of the gun there.
I will be honest with you. It is a little bit relieving and that in itself is scary.
Apart from that, you already know how usual day to day is. Bye Tess.