The Glamour and Glitterati
September 29, 2009 | Filed under Family & Friends, Uni/Work
Out on the town on Saturday night with a friend from Sydney, we somehow ended up walking in on Fashion TV’s state finals for Model of the Year. Because that’s evidently the circles I always socialise in here in Melbourne – with the glamour and glitterati, perving on half-naked model wannabes, sipping champagne, snorting coke, and dancing till dawn with go go dancers at Love Machine. Don’t let any other reports of me being a boring stay-at-homebody fool you.
In other news, I have a new job to replace the one I lost. It’s one day a week, to start in late October. I’ll be an all-around receptionist, administrator, and organiser for a one-woman psychology practice. I’ve been thinking about my lack of direction, and am trying to view this as perhaps the type of role that would be best for me – essentially organising and restructuring the practices, procedures, and policies of small organisations so that they run at peak efficiency. I did it at a former job, am in the process of doing it at my current job, and I know that I’m good at it. I’m good at implementing spreadsheets to reflect income and outgoings, at creating databases of details, at enforcing privacy policies to secure company documentation.
The problem is of course what I do once everything is perfectly organised and streamlined for efficiency, I get bored and need to move onto the next small company I can whip into shape. Oh, and then there’s the problem that these sort of administrator, “jill of all trades” roles never pay a great deal of money which could prove to be a problem when I’m in my forties and still only earning $40K a year. Unless of course, I get into freelance consultancy for big businesses in the field of organisational efficiency, in which case, I have no idea where I would even begin to look at getting relevant qualifications for such a role.
On a happier note:
- I have a ticket for the Black Eyed Peas concert this time next week! $20.50AUD off eBay.
- Oh, and I’m going to Britney Spears in November, but I bought those tickets at full price months ago.
- I’m crazy in love.
I hardly know whether my life is good or bad right now.
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What day are you going to Black Eyed Peas?
nadine on September 29, 2009 #
Congrats on the new job. :)
What day are you going to the black eyed peas? Might see you there – I’ll be working there on the Wednesday, I think it is.
Rebekah on September 29, 2009 #
I think it doesn’t matter how bad your life might be going; being crazy in love makes it all great! (:
Anna-Erica on September 29, 2009 #
Well done on the new job! And on crashing an awesome party (pics or didn’t happen). And on going to see Brits :)
Lilian on September 29, 2009 #
Sounds like you could consider progressing into ‘change management’ later in your career. We recently had someone in to do exactly that for us, she was freelance and it’s all about short to mid term projects sorting out various organisations. For us it was 3 days a week for 18 months (an unusually long project for her) as Interim Chief Exec. It was great cos she could come in and sort out all the crap, get the organisation on the right tracks for someone else to come in and build on those foundations, nurturing it over the long term. Sometimes you just need that short sharp shock to sort everything out.
I think by her stage in the career she found all her work through connections in the sector and recommendations. Not sure how she started out in it but I think what you’re doing could be counted as relevant experience.
I was going to dig out some links for you re your last post but my laptop’s broken at the moment… Will try to do when I can as I’ve been going through a similar ‘I have no career direction’ phase.
Ruth on September 29, 2009 #
YAY NEW JOB! I think it’s awesome that you’re so good at organizing and streamlining processes – it’s a really great skillset. I do think you could probably turn it into a consulting thingy but I have no idea how.
Meggan on September 30, 2009 #
Judging from what you wrote, I think consultancy would suit you. Why not check up on the bigger consultant companies, such as McKinsey? If you can land yourself an internship, you can almost land yourself a job.
Yingna on September 30, 2009 #
So cool! Congrats on your new job! ^_^ It seems consultancy really does suit you. I’m pretty sure you might be able to do something with it in the future. Good luck! d-(^_^)
Noellium on September 30, 2009 #
My opinion? Your life is really good right now. Enjoy the concerts!
Stephanie on September 30, 2009 #
I would say the ups outweigh the downs, be happy! :D It’s great that you have such amazing organizational skills… if only I was half as organized as you. :P
Regina on October 1, 2009 #
Uh oh uh oh uh oh oh no no.
Props to anyone who gets this reference and how it links in… ;)
Reply: Got me looking so crazy right now?
M on October 4, 2009 #
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