New job!
I was pretty amused about starting a new job on 6/6/06 & it began rather ominously... I had no umbrella and showed up with a dripping ponytail, feeling decidedly UNCLASSY. :) But the other people in my department are amazingly nice, friendly and down-to-earth - I felt so comfortable with them immediately. I'm taking over for another recent college grad who just found out that he was accepted into the Peace Corps, so that was the news of the day as I got a tour of the bank (it's corporate headquarters, so there are six floors) and met some of the people I'll likely be working with. I might only be the front desk person, but I still get the full advantages of the department heads' window view - I just glance up and I can see a whole lot of trees and sky!
I also really enjoy wearing nicer clothes - not necessarily Expensive Clothes (which I can't afford), but something outside of my poorcollegegirl wardrobe. It makes me feel... more clear-headed and competent. At my old job, everyone came in wearing whatever they'd worn to class (or maybe to bed the night before...) and the division between Work Time and Casual Time was non-existant. In a strange way, I think having a clear boundary will be wonderful - when I go to my office job, I will leave behind part of who I am... namely, the girl who lounged around the house depressed & having long pointless AIM conversations for most of the day, or spent hours obsessing over negative things.
Honestly... there is nothing like the feeling of accomplishing SOMETHING, even if it just means that now I don't have to worry about being able to at least pay my bills, and that I'm learning how to be part of a professional group of people.
More than anything else, I want my life to make sense right now, to feel like I am doing positive things and making healthy choices. I spent too long in the weeks preceding and following graduation making poor decisions and stressing out... I'm glad to have a schedule and a sense of purpose again.
I also really enjoy wearing nicer clothes - not necessarily Expensive Clothes (which I can't afford), but something outside of my poorcollegegirl wardrobe. It makes me feel... more clear-headed and competent. At my old job, everyone came in wearing whatever they'd worn to class (or maybe to bed the night before...) and the division between Work Time and Casual Time was non-existant. In a strange way, I think having a clear boundary will be wonderful - when I go to my office job, I will leave behind part of who I am... namely, the girl who lounged around the house depressed & having long pointless AIM conversations for most of the day, or spent hours obsessing over negative things.
Honestly... there is nothing like the feeling of accomplishing SOMETHING, even if it just means that now I don't have to worry about being able to at least pay my bills, and that I'm learning how to be part of a professional group of people.
More than anything else, I want my life to make sense right now, to feel like I am doing positive things and making healthy choices. I spent too long in the weeks preceding and following graduation making poor decisions and stressing out... I'm glad to have a schedule and a sense of purpose again.