When I had my meeting about my contract ending at my data entry type job, we discussed what things moving forward would make sense for me to do for my job tasks. I’ve been doing the same type of work for a long time for that job, but it hasn’t made sense over the past year. My job was mainly related to posting information regarding events, and there weren’t really any events happening. We did shift to posting virtual events, but it wasn’t the same and I was struggling to find events in time to share.
I was starting to do a little bit of work with social media for that job (funny enough, similar work that I was doing for my social media job so I had lots of ideas about what to do). But there weren’t a lot of things I was doing with social media because it wasn’t something that was being done before so plans were being created and not just followed.
I’ve also occasionally had other tasks with that job, like doing research for annual updates. But for the most part, I was always doing event work and only recently started to do some social media work. And when my contract ended, the meeting I had about what my next contract would like went into what new tasks I might take on as well. And it was pretty clear that it was time for me to move on from the events work. It may be done in a different way now, and I’m actually excited by what the website might look like when that is completed. But since I won’t be doing what a majority of my job has been, I have been getting ready to train on my new tasks.
The majority of my work with my new contract will be doing QA-type work. This won’t be a huge difference from what I was doing before, but I’ll be checking information already on the site and not adding new information myself. I haven’t trained on that just yet, but I should be getting trained in August once a few things are set up for me to be able to access the sections of my work website that I need to be in to work. But this week, I did some discussion about the new plans going forward for the work I’ll be doing in social media.
I have been doing social media work for this job this month, but it’s been a bit limited. I’ve been sharing posts that other accounts have created and promoting events in the community. It’s similar to what I would have posted before on the website, but I’m now sharing it on social media instead. But there is more work that I can do and that’s what was discussed in my meeting this week.
I’m excited about the new opportunities I’ll have soon. I’m going to work on some content creation and also setting up templates so others can do the work. This is work I’m familiar with from my union service, so I’m glad I have the opportunity to use those skills for another job. And it will give me the chance to build on what I already know how to do and I’m sure I’ll learn things that I might not have tried in my union service work. And of course, I’m excited when any of my day job work lets me be a bit creative and that’s something that I haven’t always gotten to do so it makes me really happy.
I’m slowly going to be transitioning into my new tasks with my job, but I think this is all positive steps moving forward. I’ve been with this job for so many years and it makes sense that things would change over the years. And the pandemic might have sped things up a bit with how quickly they changed, but I’m ready to adapt quickly. And maybe things will change when I get my next contract or I get this contract extended. But for now, I’m ready to see what I can do and what other things will come my way.
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