SKO Day 0: Staying Up too Late
Feb. 11th, 2025 07:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerYesterday was the kickoff of our sales team's Sales Kick-Off (SKO). We traveled to Las Vegas from various places around the US and the world, got settled in to our hotel for the next few days, and met for an evening reception. I've remarked before that events like SKO are a marathon, not a sprint. Especially this one, where we technical folks on the sales team are here through Friday. We have to pace ourselves to last multiple days; multiple days of day-long presentations and seminars, followed by evenings of planned activities and unscripted socializing. The unscripted part is made dangerous because of all the distractions that are available in Las Vegas.
So how did I do pacing myself last night? I stayed out too late socializing with colleagues. After the reception ended around 9:30-10pm— that's the "planned activities" side of things— I joined colleagues socializing at the bar in the lobby— the "unscripted socializing" side of things. ...Which is actually important to building relationships with coworkers and processing what's going on at work, as otherwise we all live hundreds if not thousands of miles apart and often only see each other on camera in formal meetings. I stayed up until after last call, only returning to my room at 12:30am or so. And then I felt jazzed up still so I got involved in doing stuff on my personal computer and didn't lay down to sleep until 1:30am. And that's with a 6:00am alarm this morning. Ugh.
We'll see how the day goes today. I'm confident I'll be fine during the day but I might poop out by dinner.
So how did I do pacing myself last night? I stayed out too late socializing with colleagues. After the reception ended around 9:30-10pm— that's the "planned activities" side of things— I joined colleagues socializing at the bar in the lobby— the "unscripted socializing" side of things. ...Which is actually important to building relationships with coworkers and processing what's going on at work, as otherwise we all live hundreds if not thousands of miles apart and often only see each other on camera in formal meetings. I stayed up until after last call, only returning to my room at 12:30am or so. And then I felt jazzed up still so I got involved in doing stuff on my personal computer and didn't lay down to sleep until 1:30am. And that's with a 6:00am alarm this morning. Ugh.
We'll see how the day goes today. I'm confident I'll be fine during the day but I might poop out by dinner.
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Date: 2025-02-12 09:12 am (UTC)