Hello,
I was at home for 3.5 years and have just gone back part-time. Prior to break I had always worked and been quite successful in senior sales and latterly executive search type jobs. I have been lucky enough to get a role doing what my last job was, in exactly the same field and it is 3 days a week. However I am feeling this sense of forboding that it is not going to work. I fear that other members of the team have not bought into it. This feeling is due to niggly things, and the way they have reacted now I have live project to work on. I spoke with the client yesterday, and told them I would forward them the results of search/ findings on Thursday. The client was quite happy with that... Now, on my day off other team members have gone ahead and dealt with things directly. ( I see this from my blackberry) I am feeling a bit lost as my confidence is quite low after so much time at home, and I fear that I am going to struggle to clarify my position/ understand how things work/ navigate the politiics. I have only been there 2 weeks and my inner teenager feels like giving my week's notice ( name will then be mud in the field!) Rationally I know I am being a wimp and that I am very very lucky to have got a part-time job.
So any tips on how to handle being part-time when you are the only part-timer in the office?
Sorry for the moany moan. I have seriously lost my mojo, I used to have some balls!