This post is a good one. Expect an awesome ending.

Workwise, the last months (ok let’s be honest – my whole professional working life has been lots of drama, ordeals, waiting, etc. ) of my life have been beyond insane.



Here is somewhat of a timeline summary (excluding my month to month intern trauma, and my year long contingent woes. Also excluding the huge awful reorg, which was also awful ((no redundancy there – I’m simply stating the extent of the awfulness))).


March 3 – Interviewed for the Missionary Work and Public Affairs Project Coordinator position (upgrade from being an Admin) with Michael Gibby, Portfolio Director and Romina Uceda, Portfolio Analyst.


March 11 – Got offered the job!


March – August – Trying to figure out this job! So much to learn, and getting used to the people I work closely with. It ends up being a bad situation for me. My moral is at an all-time low. The portfolio as a whole’s morale is also low. Stressful time.


August – The Solution Manager over Mormon.org takes another job. We are down an SM. Frantically trying to figure out how to proceed, interview process starts.


September – Romina tells me that she is being transitioned to a Project Manager spot, leaving the PA spot open for someone else to come in.


October 7 – Announcement that the Public Affairs and Missionary Departments were being split. Michael Gibby was going to be the Portfolio Director over Public Affairs. Missionary would be getting a new Director.


October 12ish – Another of our SM’s leaves under sad circumstances that has everyone upset – he was one of my favorites. We are now down 2 SM’s (We have 4 total, down 2) a Portfolio Direct and the Portfolio Analyst (Romina was still doing some work, but not as much as before). Our portfolio is falling apart!


Dec 1ish – Finally get a new PD!! Ron Stutz takes the job.


Dec 10 – Romina completely goes to being the Project Manager in Public Affairs. I am the interim Portfolio Analyst, with no training. No time for training. It is the end of the year and we’re closing out projects, going over budgets and everything else that comes with the financial end of a huge IT portfolio. Still no training. And I’m doing this for both Missionary and Public Affairs.


This state of complete chaos and me wanting to literally die from stress and being overworked goes for an entire month. Note – I’m always overworked and stressed, this just takes it up to a level where I could not physically and emotionally handle it anymore.


Jan 5 – I finally got taken off being the Portfolio Analyst for Public Affairs. SIGH OF RELIEF. I can function as a human being again.


Jan 10 – We get a new SM!! Yeah! Now we’re just down one SM.


Feb-6 – We get a new SM for Mormon.org! Yeah!

Feb 21 – GET OFFERED THE PORTFOLIO ANALYST JOB FOR THE MISSIONARY DEPARTMENT.




Wow. This is just all the drama for the last under a year. My whole professional career has been so much turmoil. Internships that are promised to lead to full time jobs ending (and telling me on the day I was leaving to go home for Christmas I didn’t have a job when I came back) and being unemployed. Oh, being unemployed is the worst. Sending out a zillion resumes. Rejections. Temporary jobs that make me come home crying my eyes out.


A year of being an intern – getting my contract extended a month at a time FOR A YEAR. Interviewing for the Contingent Admin spot – also lasting a year.


And now. I’ve made it to a Portfolio Analyst spot.


I went from Intern, to jobless, to intern Admin, to Contingent Admin, to Project Coordinator, and now I am an official Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Missionary Department Portfolio Analyst.


I’ve reached a position I never thought possible. This job is hard. Not to brag or anything, but it’s hard. I have so much to grow. SO much. Lots of work ahead, but I can honestly say I am proud of where I am today.