September Surrender: Day Four
I’m currently at the airport. My flight isn’t for another few hours, so for now we’re all just chilling. I’m actually doing work if you can believe it. It’s because we’re just so short staffed that I feel bad another co-worker and I are up and leaving the team for a week. But it’s necessary. It’s what we gotta do. And it doesn’t matter that it’s not necessarily in my job description.
I’ve been at my current position for a little over five years now. Upward mobility doesn’t seem possible due to the rigidity of the team’s structure. So what have I done about that? Created my own position. Recently I decided to simply take it upon myself to do extra work. I’m not getting paid to do that, but I’ve discovered more of a reward of feeling like I finally have ownership of some aspect of the show. I sit there at night, tired and likely stoned, making sure each piece of our rundown is ready to go when we arrive early the next morning. I’m writing teases, I’m creating elements, I’m getting everything prepared so that the morning rush isn’t as rushed as it once was. It’s dedication to something that I didn’t think I had in me to complete, but am glad to have generated the new task at hand.
I’m sorry this is truncated today, but a girl’s gotta go. She’s got a job to do, and it’s yet another that I’m creating myself. I’ll see you tomorrow when I’m on a whole new venture in time.