Needs People, Likes to Interact
I am currently sitting in my office, alone, typing.
The reason that I am really not loving my job is pretty clear to me - my working conditions.
To be honest, the work itself is and can be challenging (as long as I motivate myself to do it as I know that otherwise I could do nothing and continually get away with it here). I am designing learning and training seminars, on topics that I love. I get paid to train students, and research self-development stuff all day long.
It is and can be very motivating work.
I love conceptualising learning and development
I love training and facilitating with students
I love new ideas and pioneering
BUT...
I can safely say, I HATE my work environment. I work in a decent sized office (we just got moved), with no windows and away from all the other workers that work in another corridor of our building. Sometimes no-one need pass by for hours on end, and if I really wanted to, I could not come into work all morning or even all day, and chances are that nobody would notice unless they came over my side of the office.
I work with a fellow Polish trainee, which helps with the sanity but we are also like chalk and cheese. I am the ultra expressive type and she is the more quiet relaxed thinking type. I long for a team again, a group of people who all take turns in driving towards the outcome. I wish for at least one other expressive individual to join me in the days activities.
Often I make excuses to go to the other side of the office desperate to get some human interaction going on. The thing is, there are only so many photocopies and paper collection runs you can make without raising suspicion that you are in fact not working at all.
Honestly speaking, I am a person that thrives on the energy of other people, and here I am relegated to a random room away from the my 10 or so other colleagues. Here I am working in an office environment where me organising an 'Aussie Day' party and getting everyone together was a strange and highly unusual thing. Here I am, without the ability to put on music to decrease the sound of silence because my computer does not even have a sound card.
Today I am going to ask whether it is possible to work from another office, I cannot stand this any longer. I literally feel like I am going insane and the walls are starting to suffocate me...
Give me people people people people people people people people people people people people people....
Fingers crossed for a positive outcome :-)
The reason that I am really not loving my job is pretty clear to me - my working conditions.
To be honest, the work itself is and can be challenging (as long as I motivate myself to do it as I know that otherwise I could do nothing and continually get away with it here). I am designing learning and training seminars, on topics that I love. I get paid to train students, and research self-development stuff all day long.
It is and can be very motivating work.
I love conceptualising learning and development
I love training and facilitating with students
I love new ideas and pioneering
BUT...
I can safely say, I HATE my work environment. I work in a decent sized office (we just got moved), with no windows and away from all the other workers that work in another corridor of our building. Sometimes no-one need pass by for hours on end, and if I really wanted to, I could not come into work all morning or even all day, and chances are that nobody would notice unless they came over my side of the office.
I work with a fellow Polish trainee, which helps with the sanity but we are also like chalk and cheese. I am the ultra expressive type and she is the more quiet relaxed thinking type. I long for a team again, a group of people who all take turns in driving towards the outcome. I wish for at least one other expressive individual to join me in the days activities.
Often I make excuses to go to the other side of the office desperate to get some human interaction going on. The thing is, there are only so many photocopies and paper collection runs you can make without raising suspicion that you are in fact not working at all.
Honestly speaking, I am a person that thrives on the energy of other people, and here I am relegated to a random room away from the my 10 or so other colleagues. Here I am working in an office environment where me organising an 'Aussie Day' party and getting everyone together was a strange and highly unusual thing. Here I am, without the ability to put on music to decrease the sound of silence because my computer does not even have a sound card.
Today I am going to ask whether it is possible to work from another office, I cannot stand this any longer. I literally feel like I am going insane and the walls are starting to suffocate me...
Give me people people people people people people people people people people people people people....
Fingers crossed for a positive outcome :-)
2 Comments:
I hope you get what you want & obviously need - sounds like a drag being shuffled off to a quiet corner
Thanks... been out all day and never got to asking, but it is PRIORITY next week.
WOO HOO!!
Hugs Maz xx
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