Woo-hoo…I’m an employee
With benefits and sick/vacation time and everything! Yay!
Ok, nothing has really changed with the job, I’ll admit. I already worked on things that most companies I worked for in the past would never have put a temp on, so access hasn’t changed. Still, it feels a little more secure (even though I know that’s an illusion) and that makes me happy.
That’s one problem down – and quite a number a head of me…but I’m happy, so happy, to scratch one off the list and move on. I’ll get my life back in order even if it is a small step here, a small step there…and at a snails’ pace. At least I’m moving in the right direction.
New job
The first day is over. I’m really pretty tired, which is funny. I got up at exactly the same time as I have been normally lately and I got out of the house. I wouldn’t have thought that my job would have caused this, but I suppose it is mental tiredness as opposed to physical.
Overall, thus far I would have to say that the job isn’t as bad as I thought it would be but it also isn’t as good as the agency said it would be. (Surprise, surprise. I will also say that I’m done with agencies. Yes they found me this job, but only after I informed them that I had a serious job possibility.)
We shall see how this goes.
Up and down, like a merry-go-round…
Today has been an up and down sort of day. I accepted a job through an agency. That was an up – I certainly need a job. However, I felt pressured to take it and that just made me angry. In addition, I gave up on a job that I was hoping to hear about today because…well, they’ve been dragging their heels, taking their time.
This job is good because it will provide a paycheck. It will also provide decent benefits. It isn’t a bad drive (that is a HUGE plus right now, with gas prices being what they are). There’s a small gym onsite, though I probably won’t be able to use that because I’ll need to get home to see the kids.
It is bad because it isn’t what I hoped for. The environment is different. I’m going to be dealing with angry people on the phone for at least part of the day, every day. Yay. That’s what i need – MORE stress. And it doesn’t pay particularly well. There’s a certain disappointment in that; it isn’t that I didn’t expect a pay cut when I moved back here – I just didn’t think it would be this big. Sigh.
So, basically, I’ve spent the day going from irritated and disappointed to relieved to irritated and disappointed to relieved….all in all, it has been tiring. I hope at least I can sleep. Maybe the relief of some of my stress will allow me that at any rate!
