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How hard is having a job

Posted on August 17th, 2008 at 9:35am by Pi.
Categories: Personal.

Well, it has been one week in my new job. It wasn’t bad, I must admit. I’ve been nervous during all the week except yesterday; I think I’m getting the hang of it. The work is relatively easy, although also relatively complex: lots of rules with lots of exceptions. For now, the really hardest part is organization. I got too used to create my own methods and organization to achieve a goal, but here I must adapt to the existing organization and methods.

It’s not that I’m having problems with such adaptation, I’m getting accustomed although I still feel a bit uncomfortable. Uncomfortable because there are still many things I don’t know, and too many “I would do it in other way” thoughts. But I’ll get there eventually.

Another train of thought is the doubt about my performance as a worker. Am I getting better with the experience, or maybe I’m just not good enough to keep in there? I’m giving my best, I’m getting polished in customer service, I’m getting trained in how the orders are processed, and all that. Time will tell if I’m good enough or not; I hope I am, because I’m putting a lot of effort in doing it in the best possible way within the limits imposed by the job itself.

It must be my perfectionism, as I’ve commited several mistakes during this week. But I also saw that the other people in my department are falible; nobody is perfect. I should relax and let things go: mistakes, insults from customers, bad feelings when I can’t help them as much as I would like.

I also must mention that the coworkers and boss are mostly nice, there’s a good vib in the department. While sometimes work is hectic, there are also cool relax moments, jokes and all that. Coworkers try to help me with all my doubts and I really appreciate that. It’s really cool to be working with other people again. So, so far so good, let’s see how things evolve during the next weeks.

Related to that, now I spend too little time at home, so I don’t think I’ll be really able to keep writing stuff about movies, books and whatnot. I’ll still try to update here for the few people who keep an eye on me, but it’ll not be very often, I fear.

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