"And if my pet chipmunk had lived 6 months longer I'd be in the record books now"
Perhaps it is simply that I’ve spent my entire life as a wayward teenager, and perhaps it’s the legacy of so many jobs where I was supposed to be doing something...but wasn’t, or perhaps it’s simply that this is a real company and everyone is busy. Whatever it is, I am just uneasy with having nothing to do.
I have nothing to do because I’ve been here a week, because my training is ongoing and because I haven’t been allocated any work yet. All of this is reasonable. Moreover, I’ve had people telling me that I will have nothing to do, that it’s okay that I’m doing nothing, that they themselves did nothing for weeks - months - after starting, and that the other new starters are, similarly, currently doing nothing.
And yet.
You would think this would mean a longer update. You would think, having not updated for months, I would have plenty to say. And I do. I work for Millward Brown now. They’re a global market research firm, and something of a deviation from The Universities of Medway Students Association, which is where you may have last heard of me. As you can imagine, this change has lead to a great many massive changes in my lifestyle and mood (and username) and comes with several anecdotes. All of which, I’m fairly sure, I have both the time and permission to go into at length.
And yet.
I’m the new girl. Having co-workers look over my shoulder and see LJ - acceptable though I’m sure that is - just doesn’t feel right. This is the one place I’ve ever worked where I can see myself being here a while, so even though it doesn’t matter, somehow it matters more.
That made sense in my head...
I have nothing to do because I’ve been here a week, because my training is ongoing and because I haven’t been allocated any work yet. All of this is reasonable. Moreover, I’ve had people telling me that I will have nothing to do, that it’s okay that I’m doing nothing, that they themselves did nothing for weeks - months - after starting, and that the other new starters are, similarly, currently doing nothing.
And yet.
You would think this would mean a longer update. You would think, having not updated for months, I would have plenty to say. And I do. I work for Millward Brown now. They’re a global market research firm, and something of a deviation from The Universities of Medway Students Association, which is where you may have last heard of me. As you can imagine, this change has lead to a great many massive changes in my lifestyle and mood (and username) and comes with several anecdotes. All of which, I’m fairly sure, I have both the time and permission to go into at length.
And yet.
I’m the new girl. Having co-workers look over my shoulder and see LJ - acceptable though I’m sure that is - just doesn’t feel right. This is the one place I’ve ever worked where I can see myself being here a while, so even though it doesn’t matter, somehow it matters more.
That made sense in my head...