Fulfilled Life @ Work

An intern at work asked me on her last day whether my job makes me feel fulfilled. My immediate answer was: "Yes! I'm happy where I am and with what I'm doing though I'm doing too good a job of it." Then I met one of my good friends who I consider an unlicensed and unqualified therapist and knows that I work late at least twice a week. He then went on to diagnose me as clinically delusional and in great denial.

My job is a Systems & Policy line of works. I help update and maintain certain policies and manuals. I'm also responsible for creating systems that will improve the efficiency and the returns of our stakeholders. There is also a Service Excellence component

I've thought about it more the past few days about what is it that I want to achieve here. I sincerely believe that I can help it be a better place than when I first came in. I'll help set up ways to short cut tedious work and document oft repeated ones. I've always thought that lazy people can be very creative. I want to provide a policy updating system such that the next guy who has to do it has a proper process flow to follow and not go scratching his head for months about how to go about it. Everything has to be online of course.

I foresee that I'll get quite a few opportunities to create stuff to improve how things are run. I see my job as trying to make everyone's life easier and more efficient. And that appeals to the beach-rat in me.

I'll also get to use my web design concepts in trying to simplify huge amounts of data to the most relevant ones and lay it out in an easily consumable manner.

Right now the office is doing a lot of fire-fighting, reactive work. I foresee that management will want that to change. We're short of staff and over-worked. Heck, I want it to change. Every little thing that our stakeholders do or let happen to them that we don't expect, we jump and panic. It's very operational kind of work.

I'm not sure if I have too many things on my plate or I'm not handling it efficiently enough. A few of my stuff are behind time and I really don't like to do sloppy work. People expect young single people to work their asses off. Fine but we really cut loose too.

The biggest plus is that I have like the greatest bunch of guys to work with and that makes it all worthwhile. I definitely would not have stayed this long otherwise.