The First Day... For The Second Time
Oct. 10th, 2005 08:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
waitingmanSo, day one of my new job in my old industry. As I'm getting tired of texting everyone today, first days are always an anticlimax. You spend them meeting a bunch of people whose names will take days to sink in, then you sit in front of a computer & clean out your predecessor's crap whilst inputting your own, tailor your e-mail format, occasionally glancing through & then signing myriad bits of paper that various people put under your nose, then realise it's 5.30 & time to go. The end.
The day was only remarkable for a couple of things. Firstly, that I didn't manage to sleep at all last night. I wasn't conscious of any nerves or anticipation, but at one point I could hear my heartbeat in my ear & it was triphammering along - certainly not the rate of someone relaxing into slumber, so I did the sensible thing & got up & pottered around the house for a couple of hours before trying again... to no avail. I dozed for about half an hour somewhere between sunrise & 7.15am.
Fortunately, I suppose, I didn't have to start until 10am, as the ranch manager was at the dentist & had called me yesterday to give me a late start - gladly accepted. Unfortunately, I couldn't talk him into making it my permanent starting time...
As to the future..? Only time will tell.
The day was only remarkable for a couple of things. Firstly, that I didn't manage to sleep at all last night. I wasn't conscious of any nerves or anticipation, but at one point I could hear my heartbeat in my ear & it was triphammering along - certainly not the rate of someone relaxing into slumber, so I did the sensible thing & got up & pottered around the house for a couple of hours before trying again... to no avail. I dozed for about half an hour somewhere between sunrise & 7.15am.
Fortunately, I suppose, I didn't have to start until 10am, as the ranch manager was at the dentist & had called me yesterday to give me a late start - gladly accepted. Unfortunately, I couldn't talk him into making it my permanent starting time...
As to the future..? Only time will tell.
