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Like the old joke: aside from the occasional bout of anxiety and existential fear re the future, and the (still-ongoing) pandemic, and oh yes the attempted coup, 2021 was actually pretty decent for me. Definitely an improvement over 2020, most of which I spent almost literally hiding in my apartment (from disease, forest fires, etc etc) and collecting unemployment.
This year, I got to be "part of the solution", working back-office support for the county health department's COVID-19 response team. Like the graph of case counts, as the original strain steadily declined (thanks to the roll-out of the vaccine, which I was unexpectedly fortunate to get early on) before giving way to Delta and now Omicron, it's been quite the wild roller-coaster ride; at times it's felt like we were building the track just ahead of the train. My daily tasks and responsibilities are very different now from what I started the year doing, but most of that is just details. What's remained constant through all of the organizational and process changes, the comings and goings and moving from one workstation to another, is the sense of cameraderie, the "all in this together" team spirit in the face of ongoing challenges. My job is literally "admin support" (and I'm good at it and glad to do it), but they support me as well. That feeling, and knowing what we're doing for the community, has often been a balm for my soul and helped to carry me through my darker and bleaker moods this year.
It's been a great gig, above and beyond the regular paycheck, and I hope to continue working for the county - in whatever capacity - as long as possible.
This year, I got to be "part of the solution", working back-office support for the county health department's COVID-19 response team. Like the graph of case counts, as the original strain steadily declined (thanks to the roll-out of the vaccine, which I was unexpectedly fortunate to get early on) before giving way to Delta and now Omicron, it's been quite the wild roller-coaster ride; at times it's felt like we were building the track just ahead of the train. My daily tasks and responsibilities are very different now from what I started the year doing, but most of that is just details. What's remained constant through all of the organizational and process changes, the comings and goings and moving from one workstation to another, is the sense of cameraderie, the "all in this together" team spirit in the face of ongoing challenges. My job is literally "admin support" (and I'm good at it and glad to do it), but they support me as well. That feeling, and knowing what we're doing for the community, has often been a balm for my soul and helped to carry me through my darker and bleaker moods this year.
It's been a great gig, above and beyond the regular paycheck, and I hope to continue working for the county - in whatever capacity - as long as possible.
