It's okay to be Overwhelmed

Jul 17, 2009

I'm what you might call a perfectionist.  That is to say, I give 100% at my job.   I have my own office and an assistant (albeit part-time) and business cards. Whoo-hoo! 

But since my surgery, I've been soooo tired all the time, I have a very hard time getting in a full work day and concentrating.  Since my job is very detail oriented and technical, it requires a lot of concentration.  Apparently, I've been letting things slip because I got called into a meeting with 2 of the partners yesterday. I emailed something out to a client that had a typo in it.  My boss was embarrassed and upset with me. She knows I usually catch things before they go out to the client, so she wanted to know what's up.  I told her, quite honestly, that I am utterly exhausted most of the time, especially in the afternoon and sometimes have a hard time concentrating.  The partners said they would rather have me there fewer hours at 100%, then pushing myself too hard and making mistakes, which sounds good to me.

i know my job is safe a) because they assure me it is all the time and b) because my position is so unique, and my skills so highly specialized and technical, that it would be both difficult  and expensive to replace me. I know this, they know this.  So I'm not worried about my job.

But I am so tired of being tired all the time.

 

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