New! New!

I have finished my third day at the new job.  Hmmm.... it's going to be fun.  I'm quite impatient however and am chomping at the bit.  It's hard not to have direction when you're brand new and not really sure what you NEED to know or work on.  And that's the pro and con for this group.  You are trusted to make things work on your own, but then you end up in my type of situation.

So I have a plan.  I am setting up meetings with people to teach me things.  I have a To-Do list as well as a Questions list.  Most of the questions list is going to be given to Jason, machine-gun-style, next week.  I do hope he's ready for that.  I'll try to get rid of some of them before the meeting.  But for the rest of this week I kind of want to concentrate on finishing up my online training and going to a few sites to check things out.  So I don't think I'll get a chance to ask most of them. 

The To-Do list on the other hand....poor Mickey.  haha  That one is much longer. Not everything will go to him, but most of it will be things he'll have to help me with.

Hmmm, I guess it's good that I am self motivated!  haha  I think that might be a big reason why I got the job because I can handle it.

Some of the things that I miss from my previous job (other than specific people)...  Cafeteria, able to wear jeans any day I want, knowing what I'm doing..., people around me (see below) and ummm...is that it?  Maybe!  Oh ya, I can't use Facebook at work.  lol  No big loss there.

The things I love is how welcome everyone makes me feel, that I get an iPhone 4 as my work phone, someone wonderful makes coffee every morning, there's so many new things for me to learn, did I mention someone makes coffee??? and more!  It's also quieter...until the guys start talking about geeky things.  It's kind of amusing really to go from a group of mostly girls and their girl talk to a group of guys.

But I am lonely.  Let's see, in close proximity I have just a few people.  It's almost isolating.  Plus huge walls around me.  I knew this would happen of course.  I was well aware of the fact that I was losing my social network.  But I didn't know it would be quite this bad with so few people.  Not to say there aren't people around.  Just not many and they're not viewable...I could stay in my cube all day and only see maybe one other person (Mickey if he's there).   But this is a plus too because it seems like we're all a big happy family...even if I only know about half of their names to faces.   I got all of the faces...thank goodness they have badges.

But yes, no regrets.  I'm happy with this move.  I just wish I could install a chip that would teach me everything I need to know so I could get going!