One Year
Yesterday was my one year anniversary at my job.
I can’t believe I’ve been out of college and working for a year. As much a my job annoys me and frustrates me, I feel very blessed to have found a job in this economy so quickly after graduating. I love my coworkers and I love the fact that my office is a 5 minute walk away.
It has been hard getting used to a 40 hour work week,though. Some days I’m more exhausted after sitting behind a computer for 8 hours than when I’d be on campus for 12 hours, running between classes and giving tours. Living a sedentary lifestyle hasn’t been the best for my figure, but I’m trying to change that. There are days where I feel so old and the fact that I’ll be in this schedule for the next 20, 30 years scares the crap out of me. But then I remember I don’t have to do homework on the weekends or study for tests and that make me feel a little bit better.
I don’t know where I’ll be job wise a year from now, but for now, I’m happy to be an employed 22 year old with a 401K and health insurance. And the paid vacations are just the icing on the cake.
Woo!!! I get to go to Seattle for work!!
Sadly, I’ll be inside working for 2 days straight, but the meeting is on Friday, so I’ll be able to stick around for the weekend if I want!
I’m pretty stoked.
A “Hi Afshawn,” “please,” or “thank you” would be nice.
People these days…
Looking forward to Spring Break…
aka this Friday.
I guess I shouldn’t complain - no other company I know of gets a “Spring Break” day off, even if it’s just Good Friday in disguise.
Left: “Yay, I’m home from work! What should I do now?”
Right: “Oh, right. Finish 4 sets of meeting minutes from today’s meetings cause lord knows I won’t have time tomorrow to do them.”
This is my day today from 7 am - 4 pm. And not only do I attend the meetings, I also have to take detailed minutes. 😢😢😢
One of my clients sent me a holiday gift basket!!! (Taken with Instagram at PRA International)
Work holiday party time!
“I apologize for any incontinence.”
I sent that in an email to a doctor on one of my studies today.
Not on purpose, obviously. I was emailing Dr. Choi, apologizing for sending him an email meant for Dr. Chiu (you can see how I made a mistake) and I spelled “inconvenience” wrong, as I always do (too many letters!) I hit send, and the spell check popped up as it always does. I quickly hit “ignore” for the first word and “change” for the second word, but I must have really butchered “inconvenience” because spell check changed it to “incontinence.” I noticed it a second too late, and once spell checked, our emails automatically send, so there was nothing I can do.
One of my study managers called me about 2 minutes after it happened for an unrelated reason, and she about died of laughter when I told her what happened. I’m still chuckling a bit too. You know, in between the feeling like a total idiot for messing up an apology email.
Granted, I have been beyond busy at work since I got back from NY and it’s going to be like this for about another week. My brain is pure mush.
Free work lunch! (Taken with Instagram at George’s at the Cove)
The picture quality is terrible so you can’t tell that the shirt is this soft satiny pearl-colored checkered deal…but this outfit was met with rave reviews today. I even had red lips to match!
I went to a headache clinic for my migraines last week and the doctor gave me 2 different types of medications to try. One is a triptan…my previous doctor prescribed a triptan before and I had awful side effects. The new doctor assured me that since all triptans are different, people who experience side effects with one may not experience side effects with another. The one she prescribed me was generally well tolerated and side effects are generally mild.
Well…I took it this morning as I had a migraine while at work…and within 15 minutes I started experiencing intense side effects. After another 15 minutes of debating what to do, I finally told my boss and she allowed me to go home for the rest of the day.
So now I’m home, experiencing a heavy feeling in my arms and neck, weakness in my legs, and nausea. At least my migraine pretty much went away…
Hahahaha it’s been an exciting day. I’m now working in another cubicle till they get this silly cable fixed.
I leave my cubicle for 2 minutes to go get tea and when I get back this 10 foot cable is coming out of the wall & all up in my space. Notice the fallen ceiling tiles. So weird.
Today was a nightmare day at work. My workload has increased exponentially in the past month as I am now on 4 studies and my study team has realized that I’m competent, efficient, and will always say yes if someone asks for help. So now I’m consistently doing tasks out of my job description. Which is fine, I want to be known as a hard worker who helps the team out. Also, in exactly a month, I’ll be taken off 2 of my studies and added a new, big time, super-visible-to-senior-management study. That study is my companies biggest contract ever and is a monster of a study. It’s actually 5 studies rolled into one. Right now, there is only one project associate (my position) on the study, and she is just swamped in work. So, the 3 of us who will be added to the study over the next few weeks are helping her out and working approved overtime because everything is happening so fast and furious.
tl, dr: work sucks right now
