Feelings on my new job

There is a palpable energy that comes from starting a new job. There is a partial sense of information overload as all of the details of your new responsibility are laid out before you. After having worked at one place for so long, I had become familiar with most all of the aspects of the job. This was good because I never lacked for something to do since I knew how to do pretty much everything. I seldom got bored as there was always a task or situation to take care of.

The interesting thing about a new job is getting to learn “how to work” all over again. While my previous experience with customers and cash-handling help, the environment and goals are a whole new ball-game. So far I enjoy the environment, and the people I have met with whom I will be working are great. And as far as the energy goes, it makes it exciting to go to work again. Not in the yay-I-can-pay-my-bills exciting, more like the yay-I-like-my-job exciting. I know there may come days in the future where work may become mundane once again, but there is actually a more immediate negative to my new job.

I want to be at the same level of experience I was at my old (now part time) job right now. But that came from eleven years. It isn’t so much a familiarity thing, although that is a part of it. It’s a confidence thing; you are ready to handle more of the situations thrown at you because you have that experience behind you. But in-spite/because of this, I have this sort of nervous anticipation at jumping head first into this opportunity.

Also, I am very glad to experience first-hand the reality of some bad situations preparing us for new and better possibilities. It is rather miraculous to get a good job in a new city known for being “cut-throat.”