Screenshot Saturday
July 10, 2021 is when I originally saved this. Phit-N-Phat was the podcast I listened to and whose advice I followed when I lost weight for the first time. Many of her posts on Facebook related to weight loss and eating mindfully. So I’m pretty sure the thoughts she references here are thoughts around food and eating habits. And the mistake being a moment where you overeat.
I’m sharing it today because the bottom half of the post reminds me of my current job. My one decision was to leave my most recent job in favor of starting a new job. I went forward. And like the last sentence says, I have no regrets about it.
I was thinking about it yesterday. In my past two jobs, I have been in a leadership position. I have had to make decisions and supervise people. I have had to tell others what to do. Not that leadership is only about telling other people what to do, but it’s a part of it for sure. I got really tired of doing all of that. I was serious when I said I would be happy just answering phones all day. I applied to many administrative assistant positions because for once, I just wanted someone to tell me what to do instead of the other way around.
That’s what I have in my new job. I noticed it yesterday when I was meeting with the other new person on my team and our supervisor. She was showing us how to do something and my coworker asked if that was something she was going to need us to do in the future and I kind of ran with it. I chimed in with an idea for how we could split that task among us. Then my supervisor said it was ok, she didn’t mind doing it. And that’s when I realized, that’s probably a task that she feels more comfortable doing because she’s the director and maybe she should be the one to do it. I am not here to take charge and make decisions. I am here to assist my supervisor with whatever she needs help with. I’m not the only one either. My co-worker has the exact same title that I do. We are both here to assist our supervisor. She’s going to tell us what needs to be done. She’s going to lead us. And honestly, that feels as good as I hoped it would.
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