First Day on the Job
Yesterday I showed up to work at 9am in a white collared shirt and a baby duck yellow with light blue diagonal striped tie. And it’s a good thing, too. I had two meetings to attend on my first day. After a quick three hour briefing of all the crucial operations tools, schedules, and problems, I was put to work to resolve them. The movers came in an hour before our large, all-vendor and all-contractor summer policy meeting. We were having a little trouble with scheduling and I got to negotiate in a small conference room. Luckily, things worked out, perhaps better than we first hoped.
At the larger meeting I was a bit more silent and not nearly as important. There were cookies and bite-size pastries, however! I got to meet the day building manager (I’m the assistant manager: read: the night guy). She just came back from sailing in the central Pacific. Tomorrow we’re going to work on some Excel spreadsheets. One of my bosses is especially keen on visual representation of data, which is a healthy and productive attitude, I think.
Since the programs don’t start in full swing until mid-June, I work on a very part-time basis for now. It’s nice to be able to work up to full-time. Today I mailed in my statement of intent to the Critical and Creative Thinking masters’ program within the Department of Curriculum Design at UMass/Boston for the fall. Tomorrow after work I run over to the registrar to have a copy of my transcripts sent in. Two of my recommendation letters should be ready by Saturday. I’ll have to see about the third. Hopefully the kind folks on the admissions committee won’t mind that my application is nearly a month and a half late. I’ve been told there is a strict June 1 deadline for admittance enforced by the university. I’m sure things will work out all right.
nice outfit! and i love Excel!