It’s been rather stressful over here in the land of hospitality as of late. Everything is at a fast pace right now, and though I used to enjoy my job, I’ve been feeling more and more disenchanted.
I don’t want to say I feel this way because it’s become so hard. I like a challenge, it’s nice to have use my brain and think. To work around an obsticle and create a solution. But I’ve been finding more and more things piled on my shoulders, more and more things that I don’t have the training to do, more and more things that get added to the To-Do list. When your action list is three pages long, and gets longer every day it starts to feel like you are drowning.
It’s come to my attention that I may have been unofficially promoted into a position where I kinda feel I am incompetent. I’m not delusional, I am very realistic about what I can and can’t do. I am fully self-aware of what my shortfalls are and how much training I am lacking right now. And it is showing. It is crunch time and people are looking at me and I feel like a deer in the headlights because I am not capable right now to do what they want.
It’s frustrating. I want to be able to take the reins and do all this,but the knowledge isn’t there. I hate feeling like this. I am never in a position like this.
BUT… I have a plan. Thanks to a good talk with my SIL yesterday I feel better about this whole thing. I am not the first person to be in a situation like this, and I am sure that I won’t be the last. I have my list, and I am going to get as much done as I can.
I am going to get a training plan in order (also on the three page to do list), and I am going to master this.
I can do this.
Of course you can do it. Don’t let them freak you out and demand more training.