I hope everyone is doing okay. I’m entering month 18 for me at this organization. I haven’t had a chance to write in the last few days in my journal because I’ve been exhausted because of work. I have been going and going without giving myself the proper time to heal from the aches and pains of this job. I have now started working on distancing myself from the people that only hurt me. I voice my opinion a lot more now and really not bother me a bit to do so including the responses I get from anyone as long as I do it respectfully.
In meetings I have called out wrongs, people that let me down and today was no different when I have to do course correction mistakes someone else made. One of the young ladies that I don’t work with, but comes to me for help because she has no one else that can help her go through a contract. I help because I can recall I was once in her shoes and needed someone to help, minimal help, but somehow I made it through by asking questions and talking through things thoroughly. I’ll look at her contract items on the weekend if necessary, she seemed to need my review and response Monday. I showed her other HR items to help her understand the workflow.
I am no longer allowing anyone to impede in my peace and I have seen the growth within me. I got a surprise talk from the Sr. Mgr who acknowledged the absence of support back on 5/26/26 for our budget meeting with the sponsor. (Blog 5/26/26) It showed our lack of interest to our research project that carries so much work, tracking, documenting, and finances. I did a budget check-in with the Sr. Mgr today and explained where we stood currently and for her to do a review of some salaries.
Suddenly she began to follow up from prior conversations on putting together a new job title and promotion which I put on hold from back in January 2026. She tells me she’s thankful of my work and my talent to keep it all together. It hasn’t been without aches and pains and even though I asked her to listen to the almost 2 hours of our recorded budget meeting she hasn’t done it. I expressed how my job has spilled into other areas that should not be in my purview, but the staff have no other training or support but me. I was not interested in the rest I’m really busy. If I did create a new title and job for myself I’ll have to use the weekend and my personal time which I’m not willing to do at the moment. It takes a lot of market research and she should be the one advocating doing the search, not me. All the Best!
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