Thought of the month

I often wish, during boring working mondays like today that the celphone stops ringing, all my pending emails get magical 5 star responses, every1 receives their goods or documents or samples or test reports time and so on..they'd then stop calling me or emailing me and allow me to do what i want to do.

The thing with jobs like mine is that there are 3 kinds of things to do:

a) The daily things - like quoting some1 where you're the client interface, clarifying commercial info to subordinates, calling VIP clients, following up on raw material orders and so on..they'll quickly turn into a fire if not attended to immediately.

b) The long term things - Equally boring jobs, like making a dossier, getting a plant approved by USFDA and so on - they require intense, focussed, specialized work OVER a period of time - in most places they are done by specialists who have nothing else to do.

c) The Fun things - like checking stock quotes at 12 pm in the morning, calling your favorite customer to chat, calling some planepal* (more on planepals later) to shoot bull and so on...

In an ideal case - I'd like to be dumped with a 'Long term thing' over which i can work up a wonkish obsession, frenzy etc. and do a good job - while on the side - indulge in some fun activity whenever the work gets boring - the long term responsibilty has ample 'margin of tolerance' where one can have a few bad hair days, take a day off and so on.. when im a USFDA wonk or a Project wonk - id go crazy with those details and worry about nothing else - no emails to answer and no phone calls to make.

But when one gets dumped with all kinds of responsibilities it sometimes makes one crazy in the head and SCREAM for air and worse, The Long term project takes a big hit - u spend so much time firefighting, reacting to situations that develop daily that u are NOWHERE NEAR where you wanted to be - after 3 months, after 6 months and so on..

It might possibly be because of some of my own inherent limitations and so on - but this probably is the single most important problem i have to overcome - not skillsets, not knowledge, not lack of exposure or lack of money.

Heres a slightly ridiculous thought.

If i had a genie who'd grant me a wish - id ask about an year's time where the rest of the world is frozen in one state - no one even moving - while id get the chance to catch up, complete most of my pending gigs, sit, think, value the odd stock or two like id want from the Annual report, excercise, watch movies and the likes.. you know :x

Scrolling up, im slightly embarrassed by this outburst. WTF, if it doesnt read well in the morning, i'l probably take it off.

*Yawn*