Christmas is upon us …. and I’m finally stabilising things at work.
It’s probably the best Christmas gift I could have given myself, given how absolutely chaotic everything has been at work for the past 3 months.
After struggling for two months, dealing with chaotic schedules, holidays, finances, and just the overall stress of adapting to a new job, I’m finally in a good place. I’ve made my demands clear on how I want to tackle my new full time job, how I want to free up more time for my personal life and just overall work on ironing out huge issues with scheduling and time management.
To their credit, Messina has agreed to a lot of my demands and are currently working on ensuring that my start to 2024 is as smooth as possible. I’m working more normal hours, tackling more responsibilities and will be doing less grunt work.
All of which is music to my ears. It means I can spend more time with my partner, friends and hobbies. I can also give Fed Square more availabilities, and just focus on my personal health which has been taking the longest hiatus for 2 years now.
Stability breeds discipline and I cannot wait to get myself in a more disciplined state of mind going into 2024. I want everything to be more orderly and less chaotic, because by being in more control of my work hours, I can then devote time to my fitness, hobbies and partner. It also means that my finances should start to stabilise and that is the whole point of working full time.
No more different amounts of money coming every week, no more weird hours (except on rare occasions), more time dedicated to stuff I want to work on …. there is simply no cons to this.
And I want it to work out very badly.
But even though I have all these hopes and dreams for 2024, I know that I got to put in consistent effort and work to ensure that my precious stability stays stable. All this effort did not come easy. I had to be honest, brutal and critical with my feedback, whilst making sure that I was understanding about how chaotic the event industry is, in general.
In a lot of ways, the past two months have created so many opportunities where I learned a lot about myself, how my partner is so incredible supportive and patient despite the hardships and how I need to be firm yet professional about how I go about things.
I’m excited for 2024, simply because I finally landed a full time job and it is starting to pay off. My hours should start to regulate and with that ….. my whole life will finally experience some proper discipline.
I cannot wait.
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