Sod's Law

A law also attributed to Murphy. I finally get vaguely organised and finally feel like I know just about what I’m doing in this job when I’m about to leave! I was really organised with all the payments I had to make this year after last year’s baptism of fire (hitting the ground running, or kind of just hitting the ground), have kept excellent records of all the schemes I have administered and have been solely responsible for submitting our quota of studentship applications, keeping track of all their application information, liaising with the research council, organising their award letters and payments all in good time, not to mention try to reconcile accounts and return information to the council about last year’s expenditure and confirming the projections for this year.

For a change, I am actually feeling a tiny bit of job satisfaction (not quite as much as I will feel when all the copies of all the various payment forms and other copy documents are finally housed in their respective files and my desk if finally free of its mountain of paperwork), which is no mean feat, considering how messy things have been administratively, how stressful the job has been and the fact that I am still working at a higher level than my job description on paper allows me to get paid for, for several months without an assistant on what used to be a two-person team. I am just about getting the hang of it and then…I finally get another job. I am so thankful for that job, don’t get me wrong. But it feels like I was just getting to grips with everything and now I’ll be starting again. I suppose at least this means that I can leave things in a state of organisation (of sorts) and that it should be relatively easy for whoever takes over to pick things up (and if it isn’t, well, it wasn’t for me, so you’re not the first). Plus, I have realised that I need to keep my brain busy and challenged, or else I just get bored. I probably need something new to keep me on my toes. But I like actually feeling confident in my working knowledge of a job, or of the processes involved. Now I’m probably going to be the, “I don’t know the answer to that,” newbie again. To be honest, I’m kinda like that anyway, I’m just good at frontin’. ;o)