No Sleep for the Wicked
- Izobelle
- Dec 16, 2020
- 5 min read
Updated: Dec 16, 2020
Wednesday. 4:18 AM. I'm up and have been doing some work stuff since 1:00 AM. As we are about to launch our new product this Friday, my schedule has been hectic.
My role is that of a marketing copywriter, but my tasks can get really varied and include:
Handling social media comments on our FB page (LOL - that would be me replying to your comment if you make one)
Writing FAQs (which is what I'm doing right now because our new product needs its own set of help articles)
Proofreading (almost all written content will have to go through me, even those from other departments)
Conceptualizing and creating art and post copies for social media (all the art and post copies on our page, with a few exceptions)
Drafting newsletters, SMS, and articles (yep - every marketing email and texts you receive from us basically)
Making advisories (between regular maintenance schedules as well as emergency ones, plus service interruptions and holiday reminders, my day can get jam-packed making urgent advisories on top of my other tasks)
Drafting emails (to be fair, our CS team and/or legal team handle the clients and their issues, but in certain instances when the situations and issues are complicated, and they need to be explained thoroughly, I come into the picture. No joke - I find this one challenging but also very interesting because it pushes me to write and explain things as simply as I could but without missing the whole point. I like it. However, it can be very time-consuming to backtrack on what happened, understand what the issue was, and analyze the fix our team wants to propose to the client, so as much as I love this task, it sadly can affect my other schedules).
Writing UX copies (We have a fantastic team of devs but let's face it, just as I have no idea about coding and programming, they're also on the same boat when it comes to writing. Hence, they usually come to me to ask for help with creating UX copies, error messages, notifications, email templates - the works. I have no problem with this, tbh. It's still writing, albeit just another discipline. It's fun.)
Writing canned responses and occasionally handling CS (Yaaaasss - canned responses, as clueless as I was about them when I started, I've learned that they are actually what the CS use to respond to clients immediately. Of course, it has to be tweaked before they send it out, but as a quick guide, canned responses are always there to the rescue. Since I've been making canned responses, I've also stepped in on some occasions to do client support tasks like actually responds to clients myself. LOL. It can be challenging, especially if the client is rude. For a non-CS person like me, it can get emotionally traumatic easily, haha.)
I don't know why I started this post with a litany of what I do tbh, but since it's already there, I might as well keep it so that you guys have an idea what I actually do in a day. LOL.
On to other things, it's already December 16, with barely two weeks left before 2020 (unprecedented times!) ends.
A lot of shitty things happened this year, with the pandemic topping the list and other things like the death of Kobe Bryant, wildfires in Australia, etc. making it way worse.
On a personal note, it has also been very challenging for me. I decided to move back home, which comes with its issues, especially since I love the freedom to live by myself.
I moved out when I was 16 to go away for college and have not been back home for more than two weeks at most since then.
It's admittedly a huge adjustment for me to be back home indefinitely right now and learning to live again with several other people. If you've noticed in my older posts, I prefer to live alone, and while I had a housemate, she was not around most of the time.
This is on top of all the family issues we are dealing with right now. My parents' relationship has been very rocky ever since the lockdown started, and my brother currently could not walk because of his gout. It could be worse, so I'm just thankful that it's not.
I admit that my parents' situation is very exhausting and emotionally draining since I have to witness it myself daily and, more often than not, get caught in the middle of it. It's like being caught in a cross-fire between my mom and my dad's issues, and I have nowhere to run because that would mean I would have to take sides. It's hard.
It helps a lot that Bijan is around, so I have someone to talk about it at least.
This brings me to my next topic - Bijan. If you're not aware yet, he's my ex. Yep, the guy I've been talking about in my previous posts. We had our issues as well, and unfortunately, we couldn't make things work.
For a while, our breakup had been really hard to accept, and it was even harder to talk to him and pretend that I was okay with what happened between us.
Heck, it took me almost three years to completely get over a guy I dated for two weeks in 2016, so I guess I was also scared it would be way worse this time around.
Yes, my breakup with Bijan was way worse because we've been together for a while, and it hurts even more so.
Call it maturity or stupidity or whatever, but after weeks of feeling so bad for myself and thinking that I absolutely didn't want anything to do with him, I decided to do something different - I accepted that if we couldn't work out as a couple, we could be friends at least.
As I've mentioned in my older post, he's a really good guy. I've also said that maybe if we were not in an LDR, we could have made things work but looking back now, I know that's also not set in stone.
So with that in hindsight, I figured why not be friends. I mean, he already knows my story, he met my family personally, and during this pandemic, it helps to have someone you trust to talk to.
Despite everything that happened, I trust him, and right now, I'm glad we're friends. LOL. Am I stupid for doing this? Should I cut it off?
I mean, despite what I'm saying right now, I still don't know how I would feel if I find out he starts dating again - whether I will be okay or get hurt even though I have no right to feel that way. I guess I'll find out in time (maybe by then I could completely and absolutely cut him off from my life - who knows.)
With that out of the way, here's my last point for this blog (I can't believe how random my topics in this post are... LOL) - MY FREAKING PASSPORT HAS EXPIRED.
I know, I know - travel for leisure is still generally prohibited right now but it's just so weird to feel that I cannot legally go out of the country if I want to because I don't have the primary document I need to travel.
I've tried setting online appointments to renew it several times, but there are no available schedules. I'm not sure if this is due to the pandemic or that all the slots had been filled up. It sucks. Man, I just want to renew my passport. Urgh.
Anyhoo, that's it about my life right now. I think I should get some sleep. See ya.
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