First Day at Work
Rather, second first day at work. What a completely different experience it has been! My new work colleagues actually expected me to “produce” work on the first day, compared to my previous employers who had waited for 2 years until they decided to stop wondering what I was doing (which was virtually nothing). In fact, I’m not exactly sure they noticed that I’ve resigned and have not been in for a week now.
I can’t say I didn’t have my doubts. Being introduce to a little more than a dozen faces in under 5 minutes is not exactly doing me a fair introduction; I will have to embarrass myself several times now for having to ask for their names again, however, not one of them failed to return a smile and easy feeling that would go long enough to buy one another’s a cup of coffee.
Going back to university is absolutely awesome, though to work rather than study. Still, I never felt a stronger sense of belonging for any other environment. It even goes for when I’m in my lowest, that I would default to learning.
Those who congratulate me for my new appointment often miss the point and talk about how I took a decision to change careers. I didn’t change careers, I just started one. This is proving to be, understandably, confusing for the mass, since I’ve been of many skills. Some think I worked in IT, or teaching, or medicine, or in advertising, or in one or the other.
So there you go, this is as much as I’m ecstatic about my new job as, so much that I decided to pause the existential style of writing and adopt a dear-diary one. This, however, will not happen for a long time to come.