Day 10: Staying Organized

I can’t do it.

With the impending move, our workload and, ya know, life. I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed on this beautiful Friday afternoon. But that’s the way it goes, right? All of us have too much to do and no time to do it. You blink and the week has vanished.

When I was just fabricating, I had many methods for laying out and building custom ductwork and fittings. When I was building everything by hand, I used many shortcuts and templates to help me get orders done more quickly. AI before AI, lol. I was in the shop by myself, running my own show. I had a pretty good system if I do say so myself.

Now, I am working to build the company with other people doing the physical work. It’s a great thing. But it comes with a whole set of skills that I am learning on the fly. More paper. More screen. More phone and text. More human resources. It’s not what comes naturally to me. Or any technician for that matter. Here’s a great book I read a long time ago that helped me to understand the differences.

I've handled many of these in the past, but they weren’t the administrative work that comes with building the company for the future, which is what I'm focused on. In the past, it was: take an order, make the order, collect money for the order. Simple.

Wearing all the hats becomes overwhelming. So I’ve had to trust more people and learn a new set of skills. The new habits will take some time. We’ll get there. Maybe I should read that book again?