As promised.....
So, new job. It's going swimmingly so far. The people seem really nice, and there's more young folk than I expected. Also they've now hired 2 other people from my course so I'm up to 4 folk that work there that I knew before I started (familiar faces really do help). In fact they seem to have loads of people starting work with them at the moment and I was one of two new starts in my department last Wednesday.
Work-wise they're easing us in nice and gently, so far we've been getting general introductions to the different departments and projects at the Commission and doing little drops of cataloguing and sorting of material to help familiarise us with the collection. It's not stuff I'll be working with directly as Digital Archivist, but knowing the collection will help me figure out where the digital material will fit in. I've not had to do any real work relating to the digital stuff so far, except for trying to start making my way through the MASSIVE pile of reading they've prepared for me. I'm a little worried their expectations of what I'll be able to do are a tad too high, but I guess I'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
The commuting is pretty exhausting but I seem to be doing OK so far. I managed to last 1 day with the park and ride malarky before I decided to give driving all the way in a try, turns out it's a piece of piss. With 50 mins saved in each direction, not having to deal with tourists in the city centre and free parking at work I don't me see me doing anything else. But I have come to realise that if I'm going to work there long term then I really will have to move through to Edinburgh. Ick.
That's about all for now I think. I had a truly horrible bout of 'flu last week and I'm still not 100% so I'm off for a very early night. Man, 8.15 and I'm already thinking about bed, what has this world come to!
Work-wise they're easing us in nice and gently, so far we've been getting general introductions to the different departments and projects at the Commission and doing little drops of cataloguing and sorting of material to help familiarise us with the collection. It's not stuff I'll be working with directly as Digital Archivist, but knowing the collection will help me figure out where the digital material will fit in. I've not had to do any real work relating to the digital stuff so far, except for trying to start making my way through the MASSIVE pile of reading they've prepared for me. I'm a little worried their expectations of what I'll be able to do are a tad too high, but I guess I'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
The commuting is pretty exhausting but I seem to be doing OK so far. I managed to last 1 day with the park and ride malarky before I decided to give driving all the way in a try, turns out it's a piece of piss. With 50 mins saved in each direction, not having to deal with tourists in the city centre and free parking at work I don't me see me doing anything else. But I have come to realise that if I'm going to work there long term then I really will have to move through to Edinburgh. Ick.
That's about all for now I think. I had a truly horrible bout of 'flu last week and I'm still not 100% so I'm off for a very early night. Man, 8.15 and I'm already thinking about bed, what has this world come to!