The End Is In Sight

After what seems like months of tired, endless, extremely stressful days at work, I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.  After Monday is over, I’ll be able to take a step back, take a breath, and say I survived it all.  The days of coming home, eating dinner alone because everyone else has already eaten, and falling asleep at about the same times the kids do will all be finished.  I’m still surprised that when I walk through the door at the end of the day, they don’t look at me with blank stares and ask, “Who are you?  Haven’t I seen you somewhere before?”

And as far as work goes, that also means the end of getting pulled in every direction possible  (at least I hope it does!).  That means I can actually start something and finish it.  For those of you wondering what has been keeping me so busy, I’ve been overseeing the hiring and processing of about 1,000 new employees, 800 of which have occurred this past week.  We’ve had 100 new people come in each day to fill out oodles of paperwork, get fingerprinted, and receive orientation.  It’s gotten so bad that they’ve actually given me 2 more supervisors under me because they realize the need for it.  And while I do sometimes worry about someone performing better than me or them realizing that they really don’t need me, I will say it has been somewhat liberating to direct some of the problems to someone else to handle.  I’m sure they will do fine, but on the first day, one of them had the deer in the headlights look when I sent 4 people her way in the timespan of 2 minutes.  I actually never visualized how many fires I’ve been putting out until I saw how many people I directed to someone else to handle it.

The one thing I will say, though, is that I don’t know if I would have been as capable to handle my job if it hadn’t been for motherhood.  Motherhood has given me my major training in multi-tasking, and there is no way anyone unable to multi-task is able to do the job.