First Day

So the much anticipated first day of my "real job" has come and gone. I'm completely relieved that all of the nervousness and planning and worrying is over because I am more than ready to move on with life.

It went well. Very well. The people I met (two of the head honchos are still out of town from a conference last week) were all incredibly nice. The job itself seems perfectly interesting, even with plenty of data-entry to get things caught up and running more efficiently. I am glad that the position is new because they are just so happy that someone is there to help lessen the load and there isn't a set standard of what I have to do every day.

One of the guys wants to sit down and discuss the whole housing concept with me (he read my paper I wrote on affordable housing that I included with my resume), and he seems like he is going to make sure that I have every opportunity to learn about the decision making they do and the reasons why the fund exists. I also get to attend weekly meetings with their software developer as they work on an updated version of the asset tracker they created and use.

I think its going to be really cool. It's totally casual, I may even get away without heels, which would be fantastic! I have a desk kind of out in the open right now, but I will eventually get a bigger desk that will be sort of cubed in. I also will be getting a brand new computer with a 17" monitor...fantastic given the amount of time I will be staring at it!

I have keys to the building and office, a parking pass, business cards on the way, a super comfy big office chair, and all the Ronnoco coffee, soda, and juice I can drink. I doesn't get more office-y than this. I also found out that we get paid every other Friday, just like at Target, so I won't have to rearrange my bills or anything. I also get paid THIS Friday! And Monday is a HOLIDAY. And it's possible that tomorrow could be a snow day, or at least a late start...and we get to wear jeans when it's bad out!

All in all, I'm pretty satisfied. It felt strange though, working at a desk and realizing how different it will be than retail. I mean, obviously there are huge differences. Retail is constantly going and if you stop you get in trouble or you get some obnoxious person pleading for your help. At an office you can take a mental break whenever you need to without a million people literally waiting for you when you snap back into it. I like working on my own, too. I like being able to think things through without constant supervision and opinions. I think this is going to work out quite nicely.

And it is all proof that everything really does happen for a reason.