Last week was the most intense at my job yet, and late on this Sunday night I am psyching myself up for the same thing to happen again.
The number of volunteers has skyrocketed since my posting on Hands On, a website for volunteer opportunities. This has coincided with a flood of calls from clients who haven't heard from their holiday sponsors, all of whom didn't read my carefully written directions. So now I must track them down and check that they have contacted their adopted families.
I actually enjoy the coordinating and office work, it's the directing of volunteers I like the least. I feel falsely enthusiastic, I have to monitor them, I have to try and say "um" less and talking above a mumble. Sigh! At the end of the week it's a bit exhausting. Returning emails, calling those I need to - I like solving those problems, using my "soothing phone voice" to reassure holiday sponsors and responding to food drive interests.
I should be in bed and settling my brain into sleep in 20 minutes, but the sooner I am in that place, the sooner I return to four days where work engulfs me. So for now I keep watching Dexter, empathizing with a serial killer and eating Lindt chocolates.
Well, goodnight all. I hope your work is less stressful than mine.
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