So today is my first “proper” day in my new role. I did transfer into the role at the start of July, but with holiday and handover, today feels like the new beginning is finally here. How exciting. And how nerve-racking. Time to work out what the story is that I want to tell in this chapter of my life.
So my future story….hmm. I’m still working on it, since my orientation is still mid-flow, and I still need to understand a lot more about the priorities for the business that my role will target. But here are my few thoughts to date.
I want to be a Rock Star! Does that sound too proud? This definitely isn’t the Clare show – that’s not who I am. But Bob (new boss) said to me, when I took the job, that I am a Rock Star – and I loved that. Then he said, “you’re going to be even rockier and even starrier” in this role. I loved that even more. So inspiring; and something I am holding onto while I am nervous about whether I can cut it in this new job.
So there’s something about being a Rock Star in this story. What does that mean to me? It means hitting the right notes – a combination of my passions, my strengths and the business needs. For me to be a Rock Star, there has to be complete overlap of all three. That intersection in the middle is where the rock-starriness will come out, the perfect tune, the harmony, the sing-along quality. Combine that with the Sunbeam story, where I realised that I am not a Lone Sunbeam, but one amongst many of you, and we’re getting closer to the story I want to tell. The sing-along culture! Perhaps I am the backing singer, not the lead. I wonder what kind of music we’d be making? I am going to ponder that more, as there’s a nougat of something in there that’s really important to the single climactic scene of my story.
