Making Headway

This is me all the time except I do text back.

I haven’t had time to update the blog these past few days due to my workload BUT! my hard work paid off. This post isn’t to show off or anything. I’m just very happy that this is the first time since I started on this team, I feel like I was of use and not dead weight.

After weeks of putting together an initiative I deemed would be useful for one of the subteams I support, we got a sign off to proceed with the prototyping phase yesterday. This is a huge accomplishment in a world where people are not fond of changes nor spending time to make those changes to better efficiency and data quality.

One hour before a quarterly business meeting with the boss’s boss, I was tasked to run our team meeting since my boss, Maria, was going to be late. I chased after every team member for their parts and slapped it together in a presentation. It was a whirlwind but we got it done. I always knew I could work under pressure but that was really pushing it.

But the real validation came from seeing a product I put together in use the way it’s intended because they’re starting to trust the data. Seeing them constantly referring to the tool during their meeting made my heart happy because months spent on this product did not go to waste.

I’m on a high that this week, though it’s been crazy, has been one of the best ones I’ve had since I started on this team. I’m hoping that things stay this high for a while, at least until way after my vacation that’s coming up is over. That shouldn’t be too hard, right?