really is frustrating right now.
This has been a terrible week, I`m totally exhausted and worn out. Mainly because of work, which is just unbelievably stressful this week. I`m still editor through this week, because the culture editor wanted to have some time to spend on other things. I appreciate the opportunity and the faith he shows in me. At the same time, it is ridiculously stressful. There are just a million things going on this week, all the other editors keep giving telling me about things that is so important to cover in the culture section, we don`t have by far enough people or pages to cover it all, and when I don`t follow up on things they keep sending me e-mails and messages. And then a couple of the other journalists have written some quite bad articles that were not at all what they promised to write, and ofcourse, I take the heat for it, since I`m editor. But there is just no time at all to tell them to start over and do something else. And people constantly keep nagging me, telling me to fix problems they could very well fix themselves.
I know it is part of the job, but it is just very overwhelming at the moment, and I don`t have the experience to just deal with it calmly, like the culture editor does.

The thing is though, I`m stepping up, taking responsibility and working seriously hard, being culture editor during two of the busiest weeks of the whole year. And what do they reward me with? Nothing. Nothing at all. Not even a contract through september, even though they know very well they will be needing me, at least almost 100%. Crappy idiots! The culture editor is fighting for me, but he doesn`t get to decide this unfortunately.

Crap. The newspaper businesses are struggling in Norway though, the paper I`m working at is one of the very few doing really well. Many of the others are laying people off, or at least not hiring, so just finding another job is seriously difficult. Crap.

The chief editor is back from holiday now, and only gave me a contract for August. The two people I`m filling in for both work 60 % now, so there is really just an 80% job left, and it`s hard to know for how long.
I really think he is being unnecessarily mean though. I have worked there for a year now, always said yes to working whenever they need me, taken responsibility even as editor, and get great feedack on my work. And he gives me a contract 2 weeks after my previous one expired, and only for 2 more weeks. The 80% job will definitely be open for at least a month or two more (and 40% of it permanently), he could at least have given me a job through september. He really takes me for granted.
These jobs are hard to get though, which he ofcourse knows, and I do love working there.
The culture editor is fighting for me though, he said he has made it very clear that he thinks I should get a full time job there for a lot longer than just august. But this seriously arrogant guy will very likely just ignore him.
Crap.

The poodles think all weekends should be exactly like this one. ;)