{"id":36,"date":"2006-05-11T17:46:56","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T21:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/reyes\/2006\/05\/11\/first-day-on-the-job\/"},"modified":"2006-05-11T17:46:56","modified_gmt":"2006-05-11T21:46:56","slug":"first-day-on-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/reyes\/2006\/05\/11\/first-day-on-the-job\/","title":{"rendered":"First Day on the Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nYesterday 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&#8217;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.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAt 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&#8217;m the assistant manager: read: the night guy). She just came back from sailing in the central Pacific. Tomorrow we&#8217;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.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSince the programs don&#8217;t start in full swing until mid-June, I work on a very part-time basis for now. It&#8217;s nice to be able to work up to full-time. Today I mailed in my statement of intent to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cct.umb.edu\/handbook.html\">Critical and Creative Thinking<\/a> masters&#8217; 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&#8217;ll have to see about the third. Hopefully the kind folks on the admissions committee won&#8217;t mind that my application is nearly a month and a half late. I&#8217;ve been told there is a strict June 1 deadline for admittance enforced by the university. I&#8217;m sure things will work out all right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school","category-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/reyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/reyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/reyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/reyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/reyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/reyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/reyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/reyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/reyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}