Sean Bossinger’s Doings

Not much new is going on in my neck of the woods.

I am pushing myself to stay interested in my job at FIU. I guess we all fall into a career slump every now and then, but it's hard when you're a manager, to stay motivated when there's no push coming from above to produce the highest quality work possible. In that regard, I guess it's a double-edged sword that I am a manager.

As an entrepreneur, I have to push myself to produce the best possible product that I can; but as a manager I can sit back and be a slacker. Right? No… not quite. Because if I become a slacker, many of the people who report to me might also become slackers. This is not cool, because if that happens, than we start to have customer service problems, and that's not good, because as an institution of higher learning, we need to provide the best possible service to our customers: the students, faculty, and staff.

So, I'm working on some stuff at work to try to ensure that there is more than just me in place, as a go-to person, because I have way too many direct reports (19 at last count), and not enough of a business strategy to deal with all of the people who report to me (some of whom read this from time to time).

In my personal life, I've made some changes that have made life with better. I've tried to help out more around the house. I've taken on the dishes as my own to do (we don't have a dishwasher), and that appears to have made things better for us.

I've slacked off on the bathroom duty, which is also mine to do. I should be back on task with that by the end of the week this week. We'll see what happens.

I am taking a small vacation this week, like many other Americans. I promised myself I would take off, if I could, Monday and Tuesday of this week, which happen to be the two days before July 4. We already get July 4 as a holiday, so it'll be nice to have off and be with the family.

What's new with all two of you who read this?