So, how has life been?
Exciting and very busy. This is supposed to be the orientation week and I am supposed to be having an easier time. Apparently, that didn't happened in my case.
The company has a great onboarding program and my calendar is already fully booked to meet who and who. This is great. HR is about people and meeting people is great. Through these meeting, I have a better understanding of what is the business, the company structure and who does what. Just that meeting people and building r/s is very time consuming.
Unfortunately for me, my predecessor has left before I joined and I have a very new team. Thus, I am like trying to piece a jigsaw puzzle currently, trying to find the missing pieces and putting them in place. the best part? I don't know how big this jigsaw puzzle is and I have people looking up to me for directions. It is really the blind leading the blind.
The learning curve is really steep. On top of trying to figure out the business, structure and know her people, I am trying to read through the different company policies and initiatives. There are really a lot of them and this is really tough considering that my calendar is like fully booked. So I read whenever I have pockets of time, which aren't much and I brought some back too.
On top of these, I have work emails starting to come in and some were sent to my email account even before I officially joined. In other words, work is starting to "chase" me and I don't have the luxury of time to "start" working after I have settled down.
Sounds bad? Lol. But I am enjoying myself. Hehe. I am excited at what I am supposed to and had found out. I actually enjoyed reading the policies and papers and meeting people. The people are really warm.
The 2 important things that I have to work on - staying late at work and waking up in the middle of the night to prepare for work. Other than 1 day where I had training in another office, I haven't managed to leave at 4.45pm, like most of the people here. Yday, I was here until 7.45pm when Daddy Lim picked me up after his work and I actually started work at 7isham when he dropped me before heading to yard. This is not healthy and not the worklife balance that I was looking for.
What also is happening is that I would fall asleep while tucking the kids at night and suddenly wake up in the middle of the night to the realization that I have not read what I intended to and prepared for work. Then I will be up for about an hour or more doing what I intended to and headed back to bed fully awake, trying to go back to sleep. This is also very unhealthy. Lol.
However, I am still enjoying myself. Things will somehow work out. I can do it. Can do with passion. Hehe.
Mummy Lim
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