Making the big bucks (day 11)
I got my first pay check last Friday. It was nice to see a check that was nearly twice the size of any check I've had before, especially considering the check was for one week instead of two. However, I forgot about the fact that the more money you make, the more they take away in taxes. Boo. Oh well, it's going to be nice to have a steady income.
It amazes me some days at work for the things I get paid (pretty well, at that) to do. Our lab is having a good bit of downtime right now, so they're really not quite sure what to do with me. My mentor sent me down to help out in H lab. What did I do in there? Well, in the morning I peeled labels off of plastic containers, swept them out with a shop vac, and put new labels on them. The afternoon? I put labels on brown paper bags, massed them, recorded the mass, and then put them into a box in bundles of ten. Today was actually the first day I was looking forward to going home. Perhaps tomorrow they will actually have something for me to do instead of bouncing me around to "learn."
It amazes me some days at work for the things I get paid (pretty well, at that) to do. Our lab is having a good bit of downtime right now, so they're really not quite sure what to do with me. My mentor sent me down to help out in H lab. What did I do in there? Well, in the morning I peeled labels off of plastic containers, swept them out with a shop vac, and put new labels on them. The afternoon? I put labels on brown paper bags, massed them, recorded the mass, and then put them into a box in bundles of ten. Today was actually the first day I was looking forward to going home. Perhaps tomorrow they will actually have something for me to do instead of bouncing me around to "learn."