What’s In It for Me?
I once read that you couldn’t really catch up on sleep. Not true in my experience! I do plenty of sleep-catching up on Sundays! This morning, I woke up for the usual Sunday routine: Get breakfast with the roommate. Today, we had banh cuon (rice paper with fish sauce and pork patties) and banh canh cua (crab noodle soup) … mmmlicious!
Then as usual, my rooomate, who is here doing his dissertation research on rubber plantations in Vietnam during the colonial era, will ride off to some far-flung Saigon destination for interviews and information gathering. Today, he and a fellow researcher were in search of a chicken coop for a project on bird flu!
I, on the other hand, barely leave my house on Sundays. That’s because I like to sleep. It’s a guilt-free activity and I’m able to rationalize it by telling myself I need to make up for the 5-6 hours a night I get Monday through Saturday.
So, after making a couple of Skype calls home and watching episodes of Arrested Development, I climbed back into bed and snoozed for a really long time. It’s almost embarrassing how long, so I’m not going to tell you when I woke up, but it wasn’t until I heard my roommate return from the chicken hunt!
Since waking up, I’ve spent the past few hours tinkering with a road map for said Scale Up (see last post). My favorite part of this 3-page document is:
Yes, very important question. Why on earth would this Project Manager voluntarily take on loads more work and stress than she already has? Well, I’ve got 4 ideas:
- Professional learning opportunity
- Add to resume as achievement and gain stronger reference from company and client
- Negotiate higher salary
- Possible job offer with client when I return Stateside
Numbers #3 and #4 are what would really keep me motivated if we’re talking about scaling up. So, now that I’m rested from my X-hour nap and excited by the potential upside of this opportunity, it’s time to think about how best to approach my boss and the client.
Though first, it’s time for drinks in downtown Saigon!
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Um… I didn’t “get” your other posts but I definitely understood BANH CUON and BANH CANH CUA.
I do agree with you at there is such a thing as “catching up on sleep” and I, too, do it on the weekends. Drinks in Saigon… I wish I can return to those days…
“Get”? What’s there to get? And what’s more important than banh can cua and catching up on sleep anyway?