From More Work to Easy Work

I have been awfully busy for the past two days. We are working towards the financial year end and two people from my department are on their summer vacation, which means that the I am responsible for most of the work for my accounts. Not such a bad thing actually since I get to really prove myself at work and earn brownie points with my boss. I am slowly picking up the glitches, making analysis, consulting my boss on most of the important matters and getting the opportunity to make sound decisions.

Ever since coming to the UK, I have been mentally unchallenged. And now after one and half years, I am finally finding my bearing. You see, I hate mundane administrative work and my job has pots of that. I like to work with figures and achieving targets, that's what gives me the buzz. I am just not cut out to check shelves and merchandising and ensuring that everything is as per brand guidelines. I am also not the creative sort, so to work on units and stands is just not my cup of tea. From this year January onwards, I have been made in charge of hitting the targets. The last one week of every month, that's the time I enjoy my work and now that it is the end of financial year end, I have to make sure that we achieve the target of entire 0708.

In Dubai, my ex-boss was my role-model. She was pushy, stubborn to the extent of really being mean. But you know, she got me to move my ass and get things done. And in the end she would reward me with a hefty salary hike and I loved her for it. I learnt that I could do much more than what I thought I was capable of. She entrust me with extra responsibilities and made me work many a late nights, and in the end I was promoted. So when I got myself a transfer to the UK, I was expecting my new boss to be a different version of my previous. But alas, this one turned out to be a diplomatic and understanding person. Not that I should complain about it too much. But in Dubai people lived to work, where as in UK people work to live.

And its only now that I am enjoying that part of work - I can stop working at 5:30 in the evening, schedule a meeting around my doctor's appointment, take leave even when its the financial year end. Now how good can life get. But hang on....where's the hefty pay rise at the end of it?