I think I like my job

[cjsmith]

This place is fun. Busy, stressful, but fun. Yesterday afternoon somebody started crankin' the tunes; the office is tiny, so we share. :-) Today it's quiet. It's random. Thursdays we have a "happy hour", with the odd result that this is the only company in my career to hand me a margarita at my job interview.

I had a scheduling meeting about my first teeny Flash project this morning. Of course there were surprises. What's needed changes so fast! The VPE listed what I had to have for part one. I said "Oh, all THAT stuff's already done." That felt good. Part two will also be smaller than I'd been thinking.

Tomorrow I phone screen yet another QA candidate. I am, to my sudden bemusement, the "hiring manager" for this. If they make me really manage, my head may asplode, but I think all I have to do is hire and then guide/check-up-on.

Tonight I will go home, NOT take my work home with me because I'm NOT behind schedule, and GOOF OFF. Wow.

Comments

[wooddragon.livejournal.com]

The fact that you like it already is a good sign to me. More'n I can say for any of my jobs that early...

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Really? I'm usually the starry-eyed one, liking my jobs early and then finding out what's what later on. Have you started out disliking (or neutral about) a job and later grown to like it?

[wooddragon.livejournal.com]

If I'm not familiar, I'm more uncomfortable, and therefore, it's harder to 'like.' However, I will say that I started journaling about my last job really early, and it wasn't good. Beckman just took me a little while to get used to.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I too have a bit of discomfort with the unfamiliar, showing up particularly with this job because it's so unlike what I've done recently. I'm very fortunate that other factors are outweighing that.

I'm shaking my head over the awfulness of that last job. Even your initial impressions, if I remember right, weren't "new and different and awkward" but "ohh, this looks Bad".

[wooddragon.livejournal.com]

Yep, I could see from almost Day 1 (but not the two interviews, although there were a few warning signs that I glossed over) that I was screwed...

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Ugh. *shiver* There but for the grace of God go most of us at one time or another. I guess we just have to get out of the bad ones as quickly as practical and hold on to the good ones as best we can.