Craziness

I must apologize for not writing, but work has been crazy. What I've decided to do from now on is just give you a day to day perspective of what the working world is like. Let's start last week.

I was back in the office waiting for my project to start. The funding hadn't been approved yet so I pretty much had nothing to do. However, this is usually when you get snatched up by higher level people to work on internal initiatives and basically work on things that no one else has time to. This could be really boring, awful work, or it could be really interesting. I had the opportunity to work on a few process flows that our company is trying to develop in order to serve a broad range of clients. By gathering "best practices" in the industry, you can bring those to your clients and help them to become an industry leader.

Just as I was getting involved and really starting to get work done on these internal projects, I find out that the next day I am going back out to the client. But, it's not for the project I thought. The project either fell through or we decided to stop waiting, I'm not really sure which, but I was placed on a new project. Now I am working with a manager and another staff person my age in order to write business requirements. You probably ask, what are those? Basically it's documenting the process by which something gets done, where the information comes from, essentially what the business needs to do to get from one point to another. It's a lot of talking to different people, figuring out what they do, how they can do it better and what functionalities they need in order to complete their tasks.

So, just as I was getting involved in this project this week, I have to leave to go to New York City for 2 weeks. Though I am excited about seeing old friends (I am obviously going up the weekend before on the firm) I am scared to leave my project because I may not know what is going on when I return. Maybe they'll even replace me. We'll have to see.

All in all I am still loving my job but I feel like I am always behind schedule and have no time to catch up. I wonder if this is how it will be from now on!