It was an important day in the office, we were expecting a meeting, and before that, I needed to prepare a report which would help to decide the product pricing and so on. Actually, it was going to be a benchmark-type test. If I don't complete, they stay stuck, no data to work on and to deliver to the other ends.
From the morning to the afternoon, I worked my heart and soul, making excellent preparation to observe and ask questions. Running tests on and on, taking screenshots, dumping them on the docs and documenting little by little for future reference when I will be sitting for the ultimate report writing. Keeping notes of the key points helps to write the final report, and that was my task since the morning.
During a demo at the conference in the afternoon, suddenly I saw my phone’s light blinking on and on. Asking the phone on hand, I realised that I got plenty of texts that I didn't notice, and so I'm receiving calls. It's my family. When I picked up the phone, she was crying due to a medical injury. I just said, “Sorry guys, I need to end here, it's a medical emergency, and I must leave now. Will be completing this as soon as possible.” and I just walked out of the office and rushed home.
It's all about priority, can't sit on to be on the waiting list for approval. It was an emergency, so I had no time to match the equation. Alhamdulillah, everything is fine now.
But the thing is, in that moment I might have handled the situation like that, but the thing is, now even after office hours I gotta keep pace with the flow, assign tasks, review and all. In a word, I'm kinda stressed from multiple directions, yet the show must go on.
Actually, it's like the compensation that I'm trying to fulfil more than the expected amount. How so? The report I was supposed to make, I'm gonna go a few steps ahead and initiate more test runs with different metrics, already did a few and gonna make that report as realistic and close to perfection. I'm writing a long report that would satisfy all the questions and gonna provide my feedback from observing all the stats and metrics. They would be happier seeing the beauty of the work.
So yeah, it's never a loss project when we do sacrifice stuff and take them easily. As the person in front is ideally gonna make for that gap, most of the times these gets paid multiple times. Just like that, I'm doing what I was supposed to do with lots of satisfaction and gonna make them benefit as well.