#admin work

Did some admin things today. Primarily updated my website. My blog has a December update, which is frankly a miracle based on how badly I let that slide this year.

I also added a GenAI Statement on my website homepage, and in my FAQ, promising that no GenAI would ever, to my knowledge, be used in my writing, or in my covers or character art (hence the 'to my knowledge' part. I can vet artists, but no one's perfect and GenAI is getting better and better, sadly)

I want, and definitely aim to, restart up my monthly newsletter in the New Year, so I wanted to try and get on top of refreshing everything now, before I finish 'work' for the year on the 19th.

I've still got to go through my emails and delete anything I don't want or need, and then archive the stuff I do need to keep in the 2025 folder, but that's probably going to be a job for after Christmas to account for anything that comes in end-of-year.

If you ever wanted to break into an office role, admin work is where it’s at right now. I’m an executive assistant, but I’m being approached for all kinds of admin roles. Some I’m am super overqualified for, and others I can probably do but I would lose any form of flexibility that I need.

The pandemic hit this profession HARD. Assistants, be they administrative, executive, legal, personal, are typically women. And a lot of us have kids, and combine that with wfh and remote schooling, the demands on their time tripled, and they left the workforce.

I’m doing two interviews a week for my current company, and we can’t hire fast enough.

If you’re thinking about making the pivot (I shifted from retail management to EA), this is a good time to try.

Hello! I am Aina and this blog has been around since 2014(?). The purpose of this small blog was to share and enjoy my multiple interests and to posts any of my own personal thoughts and works.

This blog is currently under maintenance as throughout the years I have neglected in keeping this place tidy. This means that there will be changes in tagging system and may have some changes in themes.

Anyway, that's all from me :)

I started brainstorming Angelfall initially because an editor asked me to participate in a thing. The thing is on hold for several reasons but I'm still interested in doing the thing.

Angelfall might be too long to put in the thing, but I have another series that would work for it.... Only the thing is on pause.

It would be good to have my story ready for when the thing comes off pause but it's not a critical need right now.

Currently, the business is half involved in the next Kickstarter for the Bone Witch, which I think is The Target I need to start looking at on a day to day basis when the monthly work of the membership is done.

Ah. That's what I need to do. I need visibility on the membership details going out each month so I can batch tasks.