ACCOUNTANT BY DAY

I started my new job today.  Everyone seems friendly and they are chatty and nice.  I am trying not to like it too much, since I feel that I wound up being disappointed by my last job and part of that might have been based on how much I let myself like it in the beginning.  My cube is huge and it has a marker board and lots of things.  The lady in the cube facing mine has a lot of plants and a fish in a small aquarium.  The ladies around me talk a lot and have radios and I think things will work out fine.  When I have been here a while and have my bearings, maybe I will get a fish too.  I asked her if it had a name and she sounded surprised when she said, “No, it’s just a fish!” but not an unfriendly kind of surprised.

It feels weird to be doing such different work and to be in a completely new situation.  I feel a little out of place.  But I think I probably felt the same way at my old job, just without the cautiousness that results from leaving a bad scenario.   This is probably to be expected.  Not only did I change companies, I completely changed career tracks and I’m doing a regular accounting position for the first time and booking journal entries and stuff.  I just need to get the hang of things and figure out what this place is like and just be here a while before I can relax.

The one thing that makes me kind of sad is that I told a lot of people at my old company that I wanted to do lunch with them, but I didn’t think about the fact that I can’t keep my car at the office.  Because of the parking situation, I have to park almost a mile away and take a bus to the office.  So that makes lunch plans kind of unfeasible.  I wonder how long the waiting list for the paid parking by the office is.

Maybe I will name my fish Simon.