It only Wednesday

This week has been nutty.

My boss quit Monday. This could be good news for me career wise, but our senior manager has a gaggle of unqualified, unexperienced friends that he's been bringing in to the department - so we'll see. He and I have a meeting tomorrow (that I initiated) to talk about the program. A promotion would be financially significant, but would come at a price to my work-life balance, which I have protected. I don't work weekends, and night time work is a seldom occurrence for me. I'm not lazy, but I enjoy "at home tp" and don't want "work tp" to invade that space very often. I don't need the money...but I do have a vision for our team and since I'm mostly managing the work anyway it seems like a natural fit. I am pretty mouthy - i.e. I speak the truth which makes me a little unpopular. People say they want honesty, but if you fail to tell them how wonderful they are, they don't like it.

In addition to that yesterday I was "invited" to a meeting with one of our program managers who blind sided me with a request to the be business owner of a key initiative for our department. Sounds good right? Well - it's a 60% time commitment. So, now I'm stuck with having to figure out what to do - I've got one gal about to go on maternity leave and one who is brand new, like shiny new penny new. I need to get her up to speed quickly - AND keep the two interns and one leadership program kid busy for the next six months.

Oh lord... I'm going back to bed.

I decided to stay at MegaBank this year because of the weight loss journey, my thought was that I'd coast in a job I could do with my eyes shut and focus on getting healthy, maybe start to date (yeah!) and then move on after things stabilized (for me). My mistake was assuming MegaBank would be stable. Changing jobs is an option, but I do NOT want to move. I love this area and I have a huge system of friends who make my life really wonderful.

My head is spinning, and now it's time to either call in sick or get moving. I'm not a call in sick kind of gal - so off I go.