Applied Stress Analysis

Don't get me wrong; I'm grateful and pleased to have the opportunity to expand my professional experience and develop my project management skills. I just wish I had a less challenging group to work with. I can't even say this is my first time managing a project, but last time, I had just me on the project side and a fairly competent person on the contract side. Difficult contractor, but at least my own team was on the same page. This time, I have an incompetent project person as support, which actually makes things harder than having no support, and a very sensitive contract person who may or may not turn out to be competent. I've gotten to this almost zen place where I just don't care about the process anymore. Don't tell me what you've done; you've been telling me for months. Just tell me the task is complete. I'm no longer interested in the steps or minor progress; it's not progress: it's resolving the stupid issues that you created either by incompetence or by stubbornness. I just want to hear that it's done, complete, finished. Usable. The intermediate steps are meaningless.

And yes, next time, I'll do it myself. But it feels like all that training on communication and interpersonal skills and leadership was a total waste of time.