Have you ever gotten tasked with a project that had nothing to do with your normal day-to-day?
It can be incredibly frustrating and seemingly pointless, especially when you already have a to-do list a mile long.
I'd encourage you embrace it and learn as much as you can from it, because you never know when that information will be useful!
Back in 2018 I got tasked with helping our procurement team benchmark stretch films that are purchased for our stores/DCs because I had the most experience with plastics. It was a big undertaking and was outside of my normal scope of work (which was already overloading me), but I went along with it and learned a ton about stretch film.
Fast forward 5 years - I'm walking through the distribution center with my Manager in my new role as a DC engineer, and I realize that they're using a stretch film that was WAY more aggressive than they needed.
I did some digging and calculated the impact of it in that building (plus the 6 others that are using the wrong film), and it came out to be $65k in potential savings.
$65,000.
Just from changing over to a different stretch film.
Just because I had led this one project years ago that made me a resident SME.
Is that an earthshattering savings? No. But for something so simple, it still helps the bottom line.
Maybe it's just dumb luck (I had no intention of getting into the DCs at that point in my life) but it's my belief that every step, every project, and every experience is leading you to something greater later in life.
What value can your current challenges (in your career or otherwise) bring to your life?
President | Commercial Janitorial Service | Construction Clean-Up | Developer/Distributor of Shannon's Diamond Shine Wax
2wHey Carry, I haven’t spoken with you in a long time. I still have all your pictures I need to send so if you ever get an address to have me mail it to you I would happily do that.