New Job

This week I started the new job. Just getting out of the old place and not working for a weekend was wonderful. I had forgotten how to relax. I had put in 26 hours last weekend (that would be the 30th of June and 1st of July) and about 80 hours last week. Talk about long! I managed to get everything wrapped up at the old place though and handed off. What a sigh of relief!

Monday I started at the new company. It was great to see the old faces and people of before and even better to be welcomed as warmly as I was. It was like going to work with family in a sense. The new digs have a pretty view from the 4th floor of the building too - windows - a lost concept at work for me for the last 9.5 years. I've never had one close to my desk and now I sit right next to two of them. It's wonderful.

Sure, there is some pressure to get the tasks I have set before me completed, but I think I am moving at a decent pace. At least I hope someone would speak up if that wasn't the case. I am half way done with my first project and released that first half to production today. We'll see how well it all pans out tomorrow. I am always hard on myself and feel that I am lagging behind where I should be, but there is a slight learning curve to overcome and it is taking a little extra time for me due to that. I'm finding my groove though, slowly but surely.

Today the other two familiar faces returned from their travels to the corporate office and I got to see them again. Now I'm not the only girl in the office and there's a little more estrogen to mellow out the testosterone. I don't mind being in the minority in my business, it's a fact of life, but still...you get the point.

I got to pick out my office today! That's right, I get an office! The permanent office space isn't quite ready yet, still need to drop data lines and such, but that's minor. We'll be on the first floor of the building adjacent to the temporary space we are in now, but again, I'll get a window. Wow, my own office. Whoever thought that day would be upon me already? I feel like I'm moving up in the world.

Things are definately looking up now and stress doesn't even enter the picture any longer. I can sleep at night again (no more 5 or 5:30 am waking up and not able to go back to sleep) and don't have to work nights. Incredible. I am sure that at one point I will be asked to put in some late evenings which is fine, but in the meantime I'll enjoy my free evenings to relax.