Since I started my main day job in December 2020, a lot of my job has changed. I started part-time and moved into full-time. I started with solely doing direct client communication and slowly shifted into spending a few hours each day with direct communication and then the rest of the time doing other projects and tasks. And eventually, that shifted into no direct client communication outside of very specific messages I sent and almost completely focusing on projects.
Most of the projects I’ve focused on have been regarding managing our client records. This has a lot of different components to it, but I do tracking for clients from the time they sign up until the time they cancel. And there are a lot of things to track during that time and I feel like what we track has only increased recently. This might be because before this was my main focus, nobody had the time to do this work. So it’s something that we probably needed to do for a while but never had the ability to do. Some of these tasks can take a lot of time because I’m going back through a few years of past data to update our systems, but I know it will be worth it for us as a company when it’s done. And once I finish the old data, it will be pretty easy to update each month going forward.
Earlier this year, my manager reached out to me to let me know that they wanted to add some additional responsibilities to my role. This process has taken a bit longer to get set up than expected due to some unexpected things with work that took up more time, but it’s finally starting to be in the works. I’ve had a few training sessions to learn the new tasks I will be taking over, but the work won’t be my responsibility for another month or so. I also will be taking over a few other tasks that a co-worker was doing before but they have left the company. Many of those tasks were things we were working on together, so it’s not a huge change for me other than I’ll be working on them alone.
I remember pre-pandemic when my main job was my box office job and I would spend a lot of time reading or doing other things while I waited for the phone to ring. I know it sounds weird to be doing other things while I’m being paid for work. But I could work a 7-hour shift and only have a handful of calls. So there would be several hours where I was doing nothing and I needed to do something to fill my time. And yes, it was nice to get paid to essentially do nothing at times, but I did get bored quite often. I don’t think a lot of people realize how boring it is to just sit and stare at a screen all day and not really do much.
And now, I’m pretty busy for the entire time that I’m working at my main job. It can get hectic and I have to balance a bunch of projects at once sometimes, but at least I have something that is taking up my day each day. Time does go by faster when I’m busy, so that is nice. I don’t have as much time to do silly things as I did before, but that’s ok. I know I’m still very lucky with my job because I get to work from home and I don’t have a lot of issues that many of my other friends have said their jobs have. I work with people who understand this is a day job and not my entire life. If I have an audition or something else that is a conflict, it’s not a big deal like it’s been at other jobs. And even with my new, busier schedule, I don’t think it’s overwhelmingly busy. I do get stressed when there are a lot of things that need to be done at the same time, but it also isn’t life or death if I have to ask for an extension.
I’m sure I’ll figure out a new groove with work once I fully take on these new tasks and I’ll have some days that are crazier than others. But I’m excited to be continuing to work my way up at this job and have more opportunities to do some good work. Even with it just being a day job, I do take pride in what I do and make sure I do the best of my ability. And I’ll have more chances to do that now and to make sure that I make my mark with the company.
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