Tithing, Community Service, Minor Frugalities, and Calamity at the Call Center

 I was up until 1a last night with my boss and it was magical! I think we know I already love her, so being able to spend that much time engaged with her was amazing. I don't want to minimize my contribution, but I was mostly just emotional support. 

Basically the call center wouldn't close. It was supposed to close at 5p on Thursday but the lines were still open. And we also ended our after-hours service but not all the lines were routing to the right place. And those that were routing to the Security desk, it turns out the Security Desk Line was non-operational. 

A recurring theme with my job and my co-workers is: who's supposed to know? and when known, who's supposed to fix issues? 

Everyone thinks it's the other person and everyone accuses the other of not doing any work. I know I've certainly heard it about me, and I've thought it about other people. 

Tithing and Community Service

Sorry, God but tithing $12,000 just seems ... I mean who would I even give it to? So I converted that much money to hours based on my hourly wage. Between estimated net and gross, I hope to volunteer between 157 to 207 hours this year. that's an average of about 4 hours a week. I count family time as volunteer work. 

Some of my anxiety

Well, I was creeping my boss's calendar and it seems that "my buddy" is coming back on Monday. Anxiety. I also realized the perception that I'm not doing anything is anxiety-inducing. This morning I also came to the realization that everything else I've done has had a metric. I learned to read at three (before other kids). I skipped a grade. I got good grades because that was the metric to win. At the call center, I focused on my call handle time. Getting good survey scores. Minimizing deviations and escalations and returned cases. It was just so much easier to track my progress and my success. It's something I've always known I valued. 

Furthermore, I feel like with this job, there's so much unearthing, like - I'm not going to get any credit for staying up 3 hours into the morning on a holiday to troubleshoot the call center. That's not a metric. That's not a marketable skill. I think that's what I like least about this job. After 1 year, what can I really offer to the next role, you know.  So I don't want to get stuck. I think that was another source of anxiety because if I'm moving on after 1 year, I really will need to start looking in about 3 months - eek. Talk about anxiety.  So that's a lot of it - perception, stagnant marketable skills, no metrics to target, hit, or exceed, and looking for another job. 

TV and Minor Frugalities

I'm so over TV. I definitely am over paying for it. I have access to enough free log-ins that even the $12 or $15 I pay for my cable provider's app seems unnecessary. I've tried to ask for a better deal but it didn't work. 

This became top of mind because I need to rein in some of my open cards. Chase is offering 5% cashback on internet and cable services for the next 3 months. If I prepay for the whole year, that's $40 cashback for the year.  But I don't love paying $66/mon for internet. Do I think I can get it for the promo price of $50? Ugh... 

And then my car insurance is due. It's easiest just to use BillPay, but for $2 Cashback I might just pay with my cashback debit card. 

I'd kind of agreed with myself that chasing these tiny deals isn't where I am just yet. The mental load isn't worth it to me. 

Zucchini Bread

I used to love zucchini bread. Zucchini and chocolate chip bread. 

I think I'm going to make my boss some treats for her birthday. This time I'll send it 2 weeks in advance.