More reason to rejoice
Yesterday I got a letter from my company saying that I've been promoted! Yippee!
I'm so happy, especially coz the appointment is backdated to Jan 1, and salary arrears will be paid together with my May salary. Wow, extra cash -- and just when I need it! Coz you know, next month my car's insurance & road tax payments are due, I need to send the thing for servicing and get the radiator checked, my mobile phone bill needs to be paid (I haven't paid it in two months, and yes, I haven't been able to use that line to call out for THAT long), my insurance endowment plan payments start, and I need to pay my housemate back for the termination fee the gym charged me to cancel my membership there. Whew. I drew up my budget about two weeks ago and the results... well, they were rather disheartening, to say the least.
Things are happening at work. My supervisor, whom I consider my direct boss (although my "real" boss is my editor) was promoted about two months ago, so now she's really busy and she's starting to delegate more stuff to us and is giving me more responsibility.
Specifically, she's put me in charge of uploading stuff to our youth website and generally maintaining the site, editing & approving readers' postings and so on. She said she'll reduce my writing work because that's only fair since I'll be concentrating more on the website.
I feel amazed coz it's like she trusts me. Being given this responsibility is scary, too, coz that means I've gotta start doing some things on my own -- no longer waiting to be given instructions all the time or assigned specific tasks at specific times. My supervisor has even told me to go ahead and delegate stuff to the other two writers in our Youth section when I need them to help me.
Before, when my only responsibility was to write, all I had to worry about was finding people to interview and coming up with the story on time. Now my job is so much more than that.
It's good to try something new, though, coz I've been a bit frustrated with the writing part of things for a while. Have been feeling a bit stuck in a rut, and sometimes we have to write about stuff we're not interested in or I have difficulty finding young people to interview (coz all my peers are too old! We usually interview youths aged 13-25). I had talked to her -- my supervisor -- in July last year about transferring out of the Youth section, and I spoke to my editor then as well, but my editor said "not at the moment" and now another year has passed and I'm still here. But things are starting to happen... so this is good.
I find it interesting that my supervisor is putting me in charge of the website, coz, well, I have my own blog (I think that's pretty obvious), and I'm also helping a Christian ministry called iBridge to build & maintain their new website. iBridge is a ministry under the Graduates Christian Fellowship of Malaysia; it aims to help fresh/young grads transition from student life into working life and to live for God in their workplace. I seem to be getting more & more into this Web stuff. Hmmm... I think God is doing something here, although I don't know what!