One Year In Office

Today marked my one year working in this company.

Regret? None

Well, except maybe the killer hours i have to put in, going back at 8pm is a luxury.

My second day in office last year i was sent to a refinery for a week. Then it was outstation all the way until end of November.

Things has pretty much settled, to an extend. Now all i does is to manage the portfolio work. Those mess cleaning days when i took over in March are pretty much over. It was smooth sailing for a couple of months and now, the workload is coming back.

Do i love this job? Well, it is mentally challenging, much like any other race i enter. It is fun, just like any race i enter. It is frustrating at times, just like some of the races i enter.

In short, if i work as hard as i play. I won't go wrong.

And i'm so bloody tempted to just ask if the next person that comes for interview if they doing what i am doing. So far, it has been disappointing.

At times, i felt i'm biased as i was used to run the show alone (my previous assignment as the one-leg-kick engineer), and i expect others to do the same. My expectation for the juniors are pretty high and i do feel sorry when i push them too hard.

I push them hard because i push myself hard. No excuse for not pushing, right?

So, while i celebrate quietly in my small little cubicle in this office of 43 people, and enjoy the mee hoon that my mum just cooked this morning, i'm not discounting the fact that i am hoping better offer will roll in and give me more time to do the things i want. Perhaps it's not the right thing to do, more so in a public space such as this.

So, lets celebrate today by going through the weekly 2 hourly meeting with client. I will have anohter hour meeting with the US office tomorrow, otherwise it is the usual weekly meeting with the country managers of the other offices dealing with the same portfolio and come Friday, it would be the country manager/functional manager meeting for the Middle East Asia (MEA) region. Only day i am meeting/tele-conference free is....Tuesday.