The problem about being good at what you do

This is the 9th week I've been serving in the ministry... The main responsibility of the team I'm in is to take minutes, notes for the lectures. We're tasked to turn colloquial ramblings into prose that is well organized and easily understood. It is no easy task. It is even harder when I pride myself never to turn in work that is subpar to what I'm accustomed to.

So I guess it's my fault really that out of the 9 weeks, I've been tasked to write up notes for 6 of them. My co-ordinator is very excited that she gets to work with 3 amazing note takers this year and despite her extraordinary praise of my work, I'm not pleased when she continually asks me to be the main point-person for each week's notes. There are 7 people in the team, so how does it work out that I've done 66% of all its work? Hah. It's come to the point where I'm getting very peeved and instead of bringing me closer to God, I seem cheesed off by the unfairness of it all. Of course, I'm supposed to make use of the gifts I've been gifted... But you know, I'm not sure if there is true equity in all of this.

This brings me back to the time when I was working at Capitaland. I will be first to admit it's an amazing company. It is a progressive and aggressive real estate firm with an almost international footprint. Still, I was put off when I, a manager, was given 4 projects to handle at one go when my colleagues who were the same level as me were only given 1. Yes, I was paid marginally more than them, but certainly not 4 times more. And, the real reason why I chose to work for them was that it was a real estate development firm. If I wanted to slog away and pull all nighters, I would have stuck on to investment banking.

Alas, that is the problem of being good at what you do. People naturally gravitate to you when they want some thing done. Oh crap.