Month nine

I am currently in month nine of my new job. I appear to have integrated myself well enough into the organization that I get the comment that it feels like it has been longer. In the next month I have to turn in my performance review on the work that I have done so far, as well as outline what I want to accomplish in the next year.

This morning I have a meeting with a department head in Pharmacy. I still have department heads to meet in both my colleges. I am embedded in three classes and have plans for at three more. I need to get a curriculum developed for the for credit course I asked for.  I have started a research project and have an idea for another. If all goes well, it will result in at least three papers. This morning there came an opportunity for partnering on a meta-analysis.

The problem comes from my employment terms. I am on contract and so all this planning and work may just drop off the edge. But I made a decision earlier this week. No one is telling me that I should pull back. No one is discussing the what if. So I will just continue. The university can consider it’s reputation and the college can consider what will happen if I have to leave. I will have done my job well. As a liaison, I think it might be harder to ask me to go, but it won’t be my decision to make. So why worry about it.