Yeesh, two years! That's a long time. Rather, it feels like a long time to me.
In that time, occasionally I ask myself--
"John, seriously, what are you doing here?"
I mean, I love business and I love working for the elderly. I love figuring out new things for the business to do, and I love event management. It's just that I know that it's not something I'm gonna do forever.
It's also a little awkward sometimes when your Mom's also your boss. I mean, it's like, when does work end? Especially if you're still living at home like me. It's like, never getting away from your boss. Well, except I love my work... and we actually had to set up a rule at home that we aren't allowed to talk business.
Because we will.
Anyways, all that to say, the other day, I was working on some stuff for my Youth Group and my youth pastors have just been overwhelmed and overloaded with the stuff that's going on in their life. One of those things is that we have a talent show coming up and they're doing all the event management and they're just swamped. So I told them in our meeting on Wednesday that if they need anything as far as event coordination and stuff like that, that I can kinda head it up. I mean, I do it at work all the time.
Well, that seemed like it was a really big load off their shoulders. And honestly, I was super excited to do some administrative work. Figure out the tasks, put people to work, I felt like a glorified slave master.
Just kidding, truth be told it really was more fulfilling than I figured--to help the my youth pastors and my youth group accomplish something using a skill set I've honed at work. It's funny because administration and advertising and social networking, it's all so intangible that it's hard sometimes to gauge it or record it as a skill. But it really is.
And I'm super happy to have it and to be able to use it to help people.
Suddenly, knowing all that, I know why I'm doing my job again. And I'm sure in the future, I'll be doing a lot of this stuff...
john.
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