Work, work, work

This week has been almost unbearable at work. Not only am I having to make sure that our office runs as needed and that all the team have the support that they need, I also have to ensure that the new guy in the US is getting all the help he needs (for some reason, that takes a person on the other side of the world to get done), I also have to get everything straightened out and sorted before I head home for my holiday next week, and I have a major event with some of the biggest names in the Singapore market attending, and I’m having to do it on my own. The only real positive of this week was a message from our CEO, saying that he had noticed that my name seemed to be coming up a lot whenever anyone had anything to say about our office, and that he was very grateful for all my efforts, so that was nice. The call from Google to see if I would be interested in talking to them about a new role they are building out in their local team was very nice too...

            It sort of serves me right for volunteering for the role of Chair for a big industry committee, but in the past, and for other events I have at least had one or two people in the group who are keen to actively help out as much as possible. It seems to be a very different case this time around, and so 85% of my time this week (at least) has gone on trying to plan the event, source the speakers, replace the speakers who cancelled at the last minute, shape out the training sessions and supply the trainers and moderators).

I seem to be starting the day tired and ending the day tired, but it’s Thursday, the training room at the big LinkedIn offices is set up and ready for my guests. Now all I have to do is hold it together until the end of the day, remember every ones names as I introduce them, and get through to home and steak time in one piece. Wish me luck.