First day blues
It's been an experience. 7AM-5:20PM with a staff meeting at lunch. I feel it's all very overwhelming. I don't know how I'll ever learn it all. InDesign isn't easy for someone just introduced to it, and there's a way they do everything at the paper. From the initial decisions on how many pages it'll be to laying it all out and figuring out which ads will go on which pages and where, how you'll fit in the stories, setting headings, fonts, letting, borders, images, resizing to fit in fields, column width, etc. And I'll have to learn to bundle and label the packs of papers, taking them to the post office. I helped(help being a subjective word considering I was pretty daft) with some of that today. I suppose .01% might be accurate. I did try though. ;)
My brain is just overloaded. I've a headache that's lasted since yesterday, and it's just worse tonight. I've taken stuff for it, but it's not going away. Dinner is a TV dinner, and I'll be in bed soon. I doubt I'll be on AIM for long. I hope everyone is doing well and apologize for not keeping up with your journals.
I have work still to do for my previous boss this Saturday. He wants me to finish painting cabinets in the kitchen of the house he's flipping this Saturday. I'll also have to work some Sundays, as the paper's staff rotates for that job in order to get the last minute changes made before sending the final copy to the printers before it comes out on Monday. I imagine I'm going to be very busy. Today was a lot, and I just hope I can get the hang of things before I freak out. Yes, I'm a bit stressed by all this.
Off to get dinner. Thanks for all the comments to the previous entry. I'm not sure what kind of design layout they use. Pretty much just basic stuff, I suppose, as it's a small paper. But being responsible for how everything goes together isn't going to be easy. *Finally goes to fetch the TV dinner.*
My brain is just overloaded. I've a headache that's lasted since yesterday, and it's just worse tonight. I've taken stuff for it, but it's not going away. Dinner is a TV dinner, and I'll be in bed soon. I doubt I'll be on AIM for long. I hope everyone is doing well and apologize for not keeping up with your journals.
I have work still to do for my previous boss this Saturday. He wants me to finish painting cabinets in the kitchen of the house he's flipping this Saturday. I'll also have to work some Sundays, as the paper's staff rotates for that job in order to get the last minute changes made before sending the final copy to the printers before it comes out on Monday. I imagine I'm going to be very busy. Today was a lot, and I just hope I can get the hang of things before I freak out. Yes, I'm a bit stressed by all this.
Off to get dinner. Thanks for all the comments to the previous entry. I'm not sure what kind of design layout they use. Pretty much just basic stuff, I suppose, as it's a small paper. But being responsible for how everything goes together isn't going to be easy. *Finally goes to fetch the TV dinner.*