Random Update
Once again I've let a lot of time slip by without updating. Time for another new month's resolution about that.
The new job is going well. It's a really big change going from an office of 25 people at a public university with a complex and sort of arbitrary set of rules about how to do things to an office of 4 people in a private firm with the main rules about how to do things being 1) get the job done and 2) don't piss off the guy whose name is on the sign. Fortunately, said sign-guy is quite nice and patient, so the latter is not very likely as long as I'm doing the first one. It's sort of stressful, in that I'm learning everything from scratch when I've been used to knowing my job so well that I could do it in my sleep, but that's a good kind of stress. It's also almost the opposite of my old job because there, I was nominally part of management and was responsible for making a lot of things happen and keeping other people in line, but I didn't have any actual decision making power. With my new job, I'm totally the low person in the chain of command, but I actually get to decide how and when to do the things that pertain to my job and I don't have to worry about what everyone else is doing. That part is a huge relief. My coworkers are nice, and I have just enough to do to keep the day moving quickly without feeling overwhelmed.
Otherwise, I really haven't been doing much. I had taken this quarter off school, but I'm getting back into classes in a couple of weeks. I've been feeling down a lot, but I can't really attribute it to anything. My best theories are emotional hang-over from my old job situtation or the last bit of getting birth control pills out of my system. I've been off them for right at four months at this point, but I'm not really sure how long it takes. I was on them continuously for six years. So, I'm taking a wait and see attitude. If I continue feeling badly, I'm going to see my medical doctor first, and then decide where to go from there.
The new job is going well. It's a really big change going from an office of 25 people at a public university with a complex and sort of arbitrary set of rules about how to do things to an office of 4 people in a private firm with the main rules about how to do things being 1) get the job done and 2) don't piss off the guy whose name is on the sign. Fortunately, said sign-guy is quite nice and patient, so the latter is not very likely as long as I'm doing the first one. It's sort of stressful, in that I'm learning everything from scratch when I've been used to knowing my job so well that I could do it in my sleep, but that's a good kind of stress. It's also almost the opposite of my old job because there, I was nominally part of management and was responsible for making a lot of things happen and keeping other people in line, but I didn't have any actual decision making power. With my new job, I'm totally the low person in the chain of command, but I actually get to decide how and when to do the things that pertain to my job and I don't have to worry about what everyone else is doing. That part is a huge relief. My coworkers are nice, and I have just enough to do to keep the day moving quickly without feeling overwhelmed.
Otherwise, I really haven't been doing much. I had taken this quarter off school, but I'm getting back into classes in a couple of weeks. I've been feeling down a lot, but I can't really attribute it to anything. My best theories are emotional hang-over from my old job situtation or the last bit of getting birth control pills out of my system. I've been off them for right at four months at this point, but I'm not really sure how long it takes. I was on them continuously for six years. So, I'm taking a wait and see attitude. If I continue feeling badly, I'm going to see my medical doctor first, and then decide where to go from there.