Employment Chronicles, Day 1: Day 1

Today was my first day at the new temporary job.  It took them a few days to get ready for me, and then they weren't ready for me anyway, but I have been on the other side of that situation, so I understand.  I had to borrow someone's password, and the password had a deeply religious theme, which made me smile.  I also got invited to devotional and some other spiritual gathering each week, although I would not get paid for that time.  I thanked them and passed.  As a group, the World Vision people seem as serious about their religion as any church congregation.

I get to ease into this role; tomorrow my new co-workers are having an offsite meeting all afternoon, and Thursday another one all day.  I will not work at those times, so my first week is 3.5 days.

On a practical note, I went into the Robert Half timecard system and logged my first 8 hours today, so that was fun.  It made me feel like a contractor, logging my hours.  I haven't actually been paid by the hour in forever.

Getting up and going to work was easier than I thought it would be.  Four and a half months off didn't throw me off my schedule.  I guess I have been doing this for so long that I can just go right back to it.

It has been fun writng the Unemployment Chronicles, and again, thanks  to everyone who read them.  However, this is it.  After today, I will still write on occasion, about whatever I want, not necessarily about being unemployed.  And there is only so much you can say about being employed; it's really not OK to say everything you think about your work, out on the Internet where anyone can see it, which means you really can't write honestly about it, which pretty much kills the whole idea.  I still have at least one rant about corporations to write, but I won't write about my experiences at World Vision.  Today was fine, and the people were nice.  I'll go that far.

Maybe I will go back to political rants.  A half day tomorrow -- time off already.  Woo hoo!