I quit my job on Wednesday (with notice) and started working at a landscaping and tree removal company as a secretary. Things were really going belly up for me at my old position, I never quite fit in, they never kept me in the loop, and I was getting burnt out for a while. I started in my new position on Thursday.
The guy who runs the whole operation is a workaholic. He does this full time, and he's a cop full time. He probably sleeps 3 hours every other night, and he's insanely disorganized, scatter-brained, and loud-mouthed. He wants to computerize his business, but at the same time he doesn't because he's been doing everything with paper the past 25 years. On my first day, I spent five hours editing general orders for his police department because he needs help in that aspect too. So I've kind of become his personal secretary? I'm supposed to work from 8am-5pm Monday through Friday. Yesterday, I left at 6:45pm and today I left at 5:45 because he keeps thinking of more things for me to do.
I learned something a little troubling today as well. He's been engaged to two of his secretaries, both of whom broke it off with him. One of them still works with him on top of her full time job, and she pops into the office in the afternoon. The two of them fight like cats and dogs because they have their own ideas about how the business should be run, and she wants him to get everything on the computers as well. So I'm leery that he's going to test my boundaries in a million different ways. His ex-fiance who still helps him out called me and told me to go home, that he shouldn't be having me stay so late all the time because if he had it his way, he would keep me around until midnight because there's always stuff that needs doing.
So I asked the cards if I bit off more than I can chew. I asked what I got myself into this time. To his benefit, these two secretaries got engaged to him, they didn't file sexual harassment complaints against him, so there's that. And one of them is still invested enough to help him out with this business (and I think they should just get back together but what do I know?)
I did a four-card past, present, future, overall picture draw.
Ten of Wands
The Emperor
Queen of Swords
Queen of Wands
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My take:
The
Ten of Wands is the overwhelmed, burnt out feeling I had at my old job, and maybe it represents how I feel now as well, as though I've bitten off more than I can chew.
I think
The Emperor is my new boss. His K9 unit, a German Shepherd, hangs out at the office and follows me about. There's a German Shepherd at the feet of The Emperor. The booklet says it's a German Shepherd. The Emperor can be controlling, but also a mentor. Law Enforcement Officers tend to be controlling. I'm also married to one--but I'm pretty good at calling my husband out on that behavior and he's pretty good at catching himself when I do. I'm not going to "call out" someone I've only recently started working for. The Emperor is someone you want on your side.
Queen of Swords? I have no idea. This one stumps me. Maybe it's the ex who helps out? He doesn't seem to listen to her anyway. Maybe it's his mother who was at the office today? She spent the day cooking and telling him how he should run things. He snapped at her before he left to go out in the field and she went upstairs to sulk or take a nap. He snaps at everyone and it's a matter of time before he snaps at me and I don't appreciate being snapped at. I get the sense it's his ex.
Queen of Wands? It looks like things will work out, and it beings the
Ten of Wands full circle with a positive outcome. It's a card that tells you that you're strong enough, and not to take anyone's ****. I think I can do this. I mean, she's sitting on a dragon looking smug as can be! I'll have to learn how to firmly set boundaries, though, which is something I haven't been very good at when there's a power dynamic like this.
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