Today I started getting o do some actual work. It’s fairly simple really, I was just asked to put some old drawings into the computer. Not too hard normally, but learning this new system will mean that it will take time. That’s good though, I learn best by doing. I’m trying to enjoy this time. I’m given a lot of slack because I’m the new guy and they don’t expect me to know how to do the work, but I’m sure as soon as I really get the hang of it I’ll be very busy.
Meanwhile I go back and forth between excitement with a new job and general frustration. The people at this job, as I think I may have mentioned, are all nice people to work with. I’m very much a creature of habit though, and after being unemployed for a year, I am having a hard time adjusting. I’m not asking the reader for sympathy by any means though. I’ve done a decent job in the last year of not getting into the habit of staying up too late and then sleeping until noon, but adjusting to the new sleep schedule has been pretty brutal. That’s one of the biggest reasons I look forward to moving; it will give me an extra hour in the morning to sleep and get ready for work, and another hour in the evening to play/relax. The toughest part of the new job is that I am so tired, and I owe my employer my best, which isn’t what it should be because I am so tired. With time, that will change, and with the move it will get much better. In addition to the sleep thing, being a creature of habit I have a hard time adjusting to new things. I’m happiest when I do what I always do. Yeah, it makes me sound boring, but I’d rather be happy and thought of as boring than frustrated and be thought of as exciting.