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Oh man, big news today. I got a new job, sort of. I wasn’t looking for a new
one, but it fell into my lap, kind of literally. The warden came by to
inform me that he and the governor had been in talks with my employer for a
special new contract. He gave me the paperwork while I was sitting in my
recliner. I’ve yet to tell you who I work for, or what I do, and I still
won’t give you specifics about it, but this wouldn’t be the first time
they’ve loaned employees out to other companies for this sort of thing.
They’re a consulting firm, and while I didn’t actually work as a consultant
myself prior to this, I’m getting a sudden promotion into it for an entirely
new sector of the industry for us. This new department will be helping other
organizations who need to manage large groups of people. We’ll help them
figure out how to sort them in the best way to be productive and healthy.
They call it Team Dynamics. I may not be explaining it right, because I’m
not in charge of that. I’m not the head of the department as a whole, just
the first team. They’ll give me a new boss once they figure out who that’s
going to be, whether they promote someone else internally, or hire from the
outside. Until then, I’ll be officially operating out of the jail, but I can
work from home when my team doesn’t have to meet in person, especially now
in the beginning, before I’ve gathered the team in the first place. Which is
good, since I’m still in recovery. My future superior may have different
ideas later, but that’s the plan for now. This is all moving so fast, it’s
crazy. I mean, we were talking about the prospect of this sort of thing, but
I didn’t think that it would actually happen.
This is a huge opportunity for me. I’ve been in leadership positions before,
but never formally. When I was a teenager, my scout troop started letting us
join a second fake American Indian tribe. I don’t want to get into all that,
but we were primarily in the “competing” tribe, so for this second one, I
was one of the older boys. I helped the younger ones figure things out, even
though we were all new. I started managing a team of new recruits when I
volunteered after a huge hurricane when I was only eighteen, just because
someone caught wind that I was good at computers (even though it was just
about being young enough to be familiar with them) so I already had the list
of volunteers in a spreadsheet, and all the real supervisors were away from
the shelter when the newbies showed up. When I worked for a tax prep
company, they put me in charge of the seasonal temps, even though I was also
a temp, because the permanent employees didn’t want to have to do it. So
I’ve never been a real boss before, and I’m pretty nervous about it. It will
be my job to figure out, not only what kind of people need to be on the
team, but also to locate the specific professionals. I’ll have to interview
them, and make a hiring decision if they end up being a good fit. I don’t
mind admitting that I don’t super know what I’m doing right now, so my first
order of business is finding an advisor. This is what I naturally know how
to do. I recognize talent in others, even if it’s not in a field that I’m
familiar with. I assigned those other scouts to various jobs by recognizing
their strengths, and also noticing what they weren’t very comfortable with.
I’m nervous, but I’m hopeful. My sentence has been officially commuted by
the governor, at least in terms of the jail time. I’ll still be required to
finish my community service, and report to my parole officer weekly. I don’t
have an issue with either of those things, though. I’m excited and hopeful
about this unexpected twist in my life.
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