Working hard for the Money!

Well I have a new job, which naturally means that I’m back to Blogging. The thing is that jobs in general suck. Work in general sucks, that’s why they call it work, not play. If it was fun it’d be called fun, instead it’s called Work.

Mostly what sucks about working is that it’s new. I don’t know anyone, I don’t know where anything is and I don’t really know what I’m doing other than following instructions. I don’t know where what I’ve created is headed or is going towards. Also at this point I’m not seeing a light at the end of the tunnel which is beginning to scare me. When I went to work before I always knew that the end of the summer was coming, that I would have to go back to school and that I could return to the life I knew and loved. Now all I see is 20 more years of filling out forms and being confused by acronyms and sitting in the same crappy chair. For 20 years!

I know somewhere in my reasonable mind that things will improve. I will make what approximates “friends” at work and I will find a groove for the actual work.

I felt a little better about the “I’ll be sitting here for the next 20 years” freak out today when the lady who is training me said the same thing about her first day. That after her first day she had the same thought, and she divulged this information unprovoked!

At least today I have my own coffee mug as opposed to using a Styrofoam cup from the kitchen.