Progress

I finally feel as if I am making progress in my new role at work. As always with anything new I was intimidated, insecure I was not up to it, that my skills were not good enough.

But like most things, the secret to cracking an insurmountable task is to just get started. The fear usually dissipates after the 1st step.

So this week I kicked off one of the tasks which seemed the most intimidating. I called a workshop, told them what my objective is and just let them run with it while I desperately tried to get it all down on paper. They came up with a technical solution in 30 minutes! I then documented it, knocked up a visio map of the process and delivered the document all in the same day.

I then started on the other list of things I have to deliver by the end of April. I realised that I can achieve all of these things.

I finally feel like I can do this, I don't have to know everything - I have a whole team and we are working in a collaborative style which is how I work best.

I also completed and handed over my massive deliverable to my other client. It was a 30 page document analysing all of the external suppliers of data. But not without rocking a few boats. I was reported to the account manager who manages the external relationships outside the company. My process was quite straightforward I thought, but this numpty could not figure it out. I talked him through it on the phone, I explained it all via email...but he could not understand it. If he is in the data industry he should understand terms like 'derive' for feck's sake.

Anyway, he messed me around and I kept allowing him more time for submission, but when he came back to me on the day I was delivering and asked could we have a teleconference next week I just lost it. I phoned my project manager and asked him to deal with it as I have a tendency to have no patience, and if you are behaving like a moron then I have been known to make that clear by my tone of voice. Not that I do it deliberately, but the Virgo in me makes me snappy.

That's my excuse and I intend to keep using it :D

I did feel better when my project manager phoned me back to say he also thought the guy was a fuck wit. Apparently he told him straight up he had lost the potential of a contract. So mr fuckwit phoned the client and had a go, reported me for violating the contract over the use of the data they provide. When the client phoned me I explained to her what the objective was, that I had not used the data anywhere, we were doing due diligence on the suppliers to determine which one we would use. She seemed to grasp it quickly, so that validates his fuckwittedness.

I feel such a weight off my shoulders having delivered - it was a huge piece of work and I am quite proud of having achieved it. I just got to hope that my client is happy with it and I can focus all of my attention on my current client.