Work-a-thon
I’ve been so busy in the last few weeks that I haven’t had the time or the energy to blog.
Unfortunately, I haven’t been out on the razz; I’ve mainly been working. Instead of my contracted hours (7.5 a day), I’ve been spending up to ten hours a day in the clinic, and have even been writing reports on my days off. It hasn’t been much fun, I can tell you.
I mentioned how much work I was doing to my supervisor during supervision the other day. I told her I had been staying late to finish off reports and had even taken one home (actually, I am constantly taking reports home, but I didn’t want to look incompetent). She said, “oh yes, I took a report home once - never again!”
I don’t always spend ten hours a day in the clinic, and I do have a lot of work on at the moment. However, I do seem to spend more time at work than my colleagues. Why is this? Am I just really bad at managing my time and workload?
Mathschick suggested that perhaps I’m being too much of a perfectionist in my report-writing. That may be part of the problem, but even when I write ‘less-than-perfect’ reports, it still takes me ages. Perhaps it’s because I’m so easily distracted and end up checking my e-mails/fantasising about politicians every ten minutes when I should really just be knuckling down and churning the damn things out.
Oh I don’t know.
What I do know is that I hate constantly having reports and case notes outstanding. I hate rushing to meet the deadline of two weeks that is set between seeing a child and completing the report. I hate always having to juggle about ten different children’s cases. I hate staying late, and I hate working at weekends.
Basically I’m really desperate to leave SLT …
… which makes the fact that I start a new non-SLT job next week very good news indeed ;-)
pierre l replied:
Hello SG. I trust you are telling us that you are leaving your SLT job and starting something different rather than having two jobs. So, congratulations, well done and good luck.
October 28, 2007 at 12:47 am. Permalink.
Mya replied:
Hang on a minute? Have I missed something?? Is this the job you hinted at a few weeks ago? Best of luck with it - whatever it is!
Mya x
October 28, 2007 at 7:19 am. Permalink.
Brennig replied:
I think there’s a piece of information you’re neglecting to tell us!
Bad SG, naughty SG!
Good luck with it though.
x
October 28, 2007 at 9:31 am. Permalink.
Miss Despina replied:
Congratulations, gorgeous! I’m so happy for you.
Love and my lateral “s”,
Despina
xx
October 28, 2007 at 6:43 pm. Permalink.
princesse replied:
Hooray! Congratulations on the new non slt job! New beginnings eh?! Grand!
As for the whole outstanding reports and notes…I really hate that too. It’s almost like a phobia of mine. I can’t stand knowing I have reports to do, which is why doing my dissertation (which you will remember took oh so long to complete) did my nut in!!!! My sympathy is with you petal!
October 28, 2007 at 8:01 pm. Permalink.
lutra25 replied:
I could go into far too much detail about SG’s perfectionist streak. I only need to think of our GCSE music composition, which involved SG throwing dice until 4am to come up with a piece of “perfectly random” music, which she made a score of and then proceeded to throw it all away cause her piece didn’t sound good enough. Perfectionist indeed.
I rest my case.
Maths Chick x
October 28, 2007 at 9:51 pm. Permalink.