I received my new employee orientation at my new gig today.
Yeah, I’m a glutton for punishment. I’m going to be, as they said, really really really part time. As in, one day a week, if that. It’ll really help on the loans.** But we’ll see if my lazy arse can handle it.
But first up, it appears that my sked isn’t impressing anyone. I was in the midst of a conversation to arrange to have security call up to let me in the building on Saturday, my first day. This was to be arranged to save me another trip midtown. Well, the person to be called couldn’t understand why I couldn’t just drive up there again later this week and get my badge. I didn’t really have a good answer: I am routinely operating on 3, 4, 5 hours of sleep. The extra 40 minutes or so that’d add to my day, round trip, could easily be taken out of that. So I capitulated. Wuss.
Otherwise, the tour was a lot like attending a funeral. All the trappings of the splendor that once was, the bits that remain. The empty desks, and the ones that soon will be so. The many reminders that they hadn’t hired anyone in a long, long time, and I barely count because I’m working so little that I’m basically a person with no union protection, no benefits, nothing.
I haven’t held a job and worked this little… ever. Even in high school I worked more. I felt distinctly lazy.
Dunno. I suppose we’ll see how it goes.
**Help on the loans. This whole financial meltdown actually is scaring the piss out of me. If all the banks seize, I can kiss my legal education goodbye. So then I’ll have to pay off the loans from this year without any income, and I’d have to try to get a job in this shitty economy. And I”ll be the loser without a JD to show for that. All this work, actually, might be for nothing.
Now that I think of it, though, that’s pretty funny. Typical Heather. Working hard for nothing.
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