When Monday is not a drag

This is one Monday that I’m more diligent and excited than usual – that’s why I have to blog about it.

For almost 2 months now, I’ve been dragging myself to work. It’s not that I don’t like my job right now. In fact, I like it and there’s an 80% chance that I will fall in love with it given a few more weeks. The downside of it is waking up at 6am to make it to Ortigas at 8! I’m not a morning person. When I was working in Makati, my call time was 10am and I used to get up at 8.

Add to that the adjustment period I had to go through. Retail is definitely a different animal from a dotcom. My current CEO is the antithesis of my former CEO. What’s more, I report directly to him.

In my early weeks here, I had some difficulty reading him. I couldn’t get it if he was serious, if he was sarcastic or if he was trying to be funny. Because of that, I spent sleepless nights thinking of how I will present my concepts to him to win his approval. I was (and still am) working very hard to prove myself – that I deserve the position, that I deserve my title.

Today, I managed to write off 9 out of 10 tasks in my to-do lists by 2:30 pm. I am now working on finishing the last one. I’ve been very hyper since this morning and the people around me tended to conspire to give me that high feeling – the area operations managers being more helpful than usual, suppliers and clients easier to coordinate with.

Top all of that with a pat on the back from the CEO, with a remark that we’re about to roll out our big project because I managed to finish an important part of it. He also approved my manpower requests.

Ever since I started schooling, Mondays tended to disagree with me. So this is one Monday I will never forget. I’m just hoping this will go on for the rest of the week.