Getting Going Again
Starting a business is difficult. While there was a pre-existing business in place, it was just one woman doing her thing. While she does have an office that is set up and a billing person, neither the office nor the billing structures are set up for me. More importantly, there is not a large group of people sitting outside said office asking for my services. Nope, I have to go find those myself. The woman I work with has been AMAZING regarding marketing. She has new ideas every day. I get these cute emails all the time. She thinks she’s annoying me with them, but honestly, I couldn’t be happier about them. She’s thinking about the part of a business that, for whatever reason, my mind doesn’t think about on its own. So I’m happily (at least usually) entering back into the world of professionalism – reading the latest research/information about ADHD (since I presume to know something about it and am now a bit behind), making lists, and generally “Getting Things Done.”
I’d pulled out my old PDA again and was starting to use it for listmaking, but all the software for it is pretty outdated. Since it was upgrade time for me with Verizon, I opted for – drum roll, please – a Blackberry (aka Crackberry). I love that I can just throw tasks, ideas, and appointments in there with only a couple of clicks, and it’s all sync’d up with my online stuff. MAGIC!
Crack
There are now two phones in my purse at all times: one for work calls and the other which contains pretty much everything I need to do my job: calendar, address book, email, even MP3’s to listen to. I even went so far as to download some free online talks about ADHD to get my mind back in the right mode of thinking. It’s HARD when you’re out of the game for a while. I’m SO glad I did that, because what I learned from listening to it a few days really caught me up so much, so that today, when I met with a psychiatrist who will hopefully be sending referrals my way, I sounded as if I had been thinking about all of these things all the time for the last year, rather than about things like getting a job and the licensure exam.
Me in work clothes, wondering what’s up with the stupid bow. My work clothing collection is limited, but I need to use credit for buying assessment tools (IQ tests, Memory tests, etc), not clothing.
Comment by downstairs-Jen
July 23, 2008 @ 10:36 pm
I vividly remember watching Six Feet Under in college and seeing that hot redhead, at some point when she was working in a an office, always wearing these incredibly adorable silk charmeuse tops with bows near the neck under her suits, and then after work she’d just be wearing the top and the skirt.
I wanted that so badly. I think mostly because I wanted to be a skinny redhead, but I think I wanted the bows just as much.
For the record, now that I have to wear suits 4-5 days a week, I never ever wear a shirt with a bow. But I do have some in silk charmeuse, and even as a plump nearly-brunette, I think I’m still pretty hot with the jacket off.
So glad to hear that things are working for you!!