Work Work Work

Is it a bad thing that all I want to do is sleep? I guess reading stuff all day long is a very tiring thing. I do know that when I really start getting into things I will really enjoy my job, but it’s just that I need to get to the point where I can get really involved. I have started getting involved in some program specific stuff . On Tuesday I was able to participate in a project meeting and I was given some project specific tasks that I get to work on. I just don’t know how good of a thing this is. I am going to be the Mission Assurance Expert for the Department, but fortunately I am just starting with one project. This is pretty exciting because I am going to be networking with some very important people. I will also be the main contact within the department for the Department of Defense and the Missile Defense Agency.

So everything started out as me just being the Mission Assurance Expert for the main program in the Department and just rarely traveling. The next day, it turned into me being the Mission Assurance Expert for the entire department and traveling a lot. Now, it has turned into me being the Mission Assurance Expert and the Risk Management Expert for the department. I’m not too sure how I feel about all of this. It is a great opportunity but since there isn’t anyone but me working on this stuff that means I will be the only one who knows anything about it. Also, the whole Mission Assurance thing is something new for Rockwell so I am literally defining it for the company, which is a lot of pressure. At the same time, no one on the team knows anything about the Risk Management stuff either so I don’t have any guidance for it. My manager doesn’t like what Rockwell has in place for Risk Management standards so he wants me to come up with a new way of doing it. Once again I run into the problem that I will be the only one who knows how to do it. I think this means that there is going to be a lot of work for me to do and not very many people that can help me with it. I also run into the problem of it becoming all projects and not just the main project. This could be challenging, but I think I will enjoy it….for the most part.

What I really like about this is that I will be involved in all parts of the project. I will be helping with all sides of the design, which will be a whole lot of fun. I will be able to do some DSP too . I guess we will just have to see what happens because I am sure it will be different than I thought it was going to be. It already is a lot different than I thought. Anywho, I am going to relax and watch some TV before I head to bed, which won’t be too much longer. I guess I need to do some catching up on what has happened up until now, but that is for a later date.