It's a living.
Jan. 31st, 2004 12:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shirenomadWell, first full week of work completed. It's nice to be paid, but let me be honest about something... I have never had a job that required me to show up regularly at any time. The closest was Trident, which required a full 40 hours a week... on flex-time, which meant I usually drifted in around 10 am. Now I'm having to adjust to being up before 8 if I'm to be clean, dressed, coherent, and in the office by 9. I haven't had to be up that early since my last 9 am class (about two years ago), and they didn't care if I was shaven. So it's an adjustment period right now.
My boss is friendly and usually casual, though he tends to jump around in his thought processes. This can get confusing at times: he'll talk for a bit about something he's been working on or something he has, then say "Well, can you do it?" without ever specifying what he actually wanted me to do. I'm sure he thought about my instructions and was convinced he stated them at some point, but he rarely does, and I'll have to ask him to back up and clarify. This disorganization also shows in the office, though to be fair they moved in here pretty recently.
Perhaps related, perhaps not, is his tendency to show up five minutes before I decide "getting late, nothing left to do, time to go home", and plop something in my lap that keeps me there for an extra thirty minutes or more. Technically, I don't have an official check-out time, and I probably clocked under forty hours this week, but it's still a little annoying when I just spent a couple hours doing more or less nothing.
Despite all that, it's a pretty good job so far. Largely I've been creating digital versions of various forms that they've been photocopying for ages... the originals are lost somewhere in the LA branch, I guess. Making the letterhead was especially enjoyable; got to flex some artistic muscle (and practice on Illustrator). Sunny was also really impressed by my redesign of the pricing sheets. Glad to know I'm proving myself indispensable; job security is a handy thing. And I've got high-speed Net during lunch hour and slow moments. Which is, err, probably why I'll eventually need that job security. ("Okay, so maybe I did spent three hours in the middle of a busy day reading webcomics and online forums...")
My boss is friendly and usually casual, though he tends to jump around in his thought processes. This can get confusing at times: he'll talk for a bit about something he's been working on or something he has, then say "Well, can you do it?" without ever specifying what he actually wanted me to do. I'm sure he thought about my instructions and was convinced he stated them at some point, but he rarely does, and I'll have to ask him to back up and clarify. This disorganization also shows in the office, though to be fair they moved in here pretty recently.
Perhaps related, perhaps not, is his tendency to show up five minutes before I decide "getting late, nothing left to do, time to go home", and plop something in my lap that keeps me there for an extra thirty minutes or more. Technically, I don't have an official check-out time, and I probably clocked under forty hours this week, but it's still a little annoying when I just spent a couple hours doing more or less nothing.
Despite all that, it's a pretty good job so far. Largely I've been creating digital versions of various forms that they've been photocopying for ages... the originals are lost somewhere in the LA branch, I guess. Making the letterhead was especially enjoyable; got to flex some artistic muscle (and practice on Illustrator). Sunny was also really impressed by my redesign of the pricing sheets. Glad to know I'm proving myself indispensable; job security is a handy thing. And I've got high-speed Net during lunch hour and slow moments. Which is, err, probably why I'll eventually need that job security. ("Okay, so maybe I did spent three hours in the middle of a busy day reading webcomics and online forums...")
