Another new position....

Since arriving at my job here Feb 21, I have held two different departments, and am about ready to move to another one. And maybe I'm the only one who finds that surprising. In 6+ years with the company prior to this, I held only three positions, total. (I was very much at home in Fabrics & Crafts!!) I was interviewed Friday afternoon for this new position, and the Store Manager congratulated me first thing this morning. It was nice to hear "no matter how many times we looked at the list of names, we kept coming back to yours". Guess I'm doing a few things right, huh ? It's a lateral move, different responsibilities. More paperwork (which I'm good at) and a need to be organized, on top of things, and able to jump into several different hoops, if it's called for. (None of that has ever been a problem for me in the past ... but I'm not in my 20's any longer!! haha) I'm supposed to begin training right away, as the gal I'm replacing leaves in 3 weeks, I believe. Ought to be interesting, considering I have a full plate as it is with my pharmacy department. (Maybe that's why it works well for me... I'm the kind who takes ownership?)

Most of my day was spent answering questions about a new computerized back room program we've just begun (I went gung-ho and started a week earlier than the rest of the departments! lol) , so I've been helping my peers with a lot of that. And, spent a half hour training a co-manager from another store on some of the working details of this new system, as well. It was nice to be singled out for that :)

Which brings me to the second half, the reason for this post: Why is it that when we do good things, we don't hear about it as often as we'd like to ? For example: When my kids were growing up, my ex and I would take the kids places .... a train trip into SF, an outing to a park, a zoo, a museum, things like that. But because we were there, the kids didn't have to expound every detail joyfully (like kids do!) to us, but would talk about how wonderful it was to their grandparents. We adults got to hear second hand how excited the kids were after such a trip. And I'm thinking its kind of that way with our jobs, as well. We're busy doing what we do. And continually wonder: "Am I doing a good job? Is this the way I'm supposed to do something?" Why do we assume the worst case scenario? and not the best? Is it possible to live by the adage "No news is good news" ??? I say YES! While it's always nice to hear good things about ourselves, in reality, if we're doing a good job ... isn't that what we're paid to do ?? If you were doing a bad job, don't you think they'd tell you by now? So, the next time you get to wondering about your job performance... keep that in mind: No news is good news!

HUGS to everyone!