Friday, December 08, 2006

Sydney Day 2 Part 3: The Electric Strikes Back!

After finding out about my first rotation, we headed back upstairs to have a meeting with one of the guys who is a head honcho of our division, he was a young well dressed man and we met him in this colourful and scenic meeting room (The whole bloody place has ridiculous views) where he started telling us about how great this company is to work for compared to other places and how it is team and people orientated etc, I was a bit skeptical until he started going into detail about the places he has worked and the situations that had arose, it was a bit of an eye opener. He then showed us around some of the "cool" bits of the building which included this cafe high up in the building which again looked like something out of a futuristic design magazine, I had no idea that corporations like this would even go to the effort to make a workplace so comfortable/enjoyable for their workers.We sat down in one of these "booth" tables at the cafe and I felt like going to sleep and started to realise how tired I was, head honcho guy started going into detail about our entire division and how it all works etc, it was pretty interesting and I learnt that this guy was very smart and a brillant communicator, I guess that is why he is head honcho guy eh?
After all this we headed over the the building we would be working in, it was about a 10 to 15 minute walk through some serious heat and humidity, something I'll have to get use to! Luckily for us we were shown a way to pretty much walk the entire distance underground, I never realised you could traverse so much of Sydney's CBD underground! Anyway we got to the new building, signed in and headed upstairs to the cafe/lunch floor to meet up with the guys that would be my immediate contact through my first rotation, again, nice people and seemed really excited to have us grads coming to join them.
Anyway long story short, left these guys and headed down with grad guy to grab a beer along the harbour, tried to catch up with some of the other grads but they had to catch planes home. We chatted a bit about our lives and the whole grad process thing and how we really think we are going to enjoy working where we are going. I then left after two drinks (feeling quite drunk!) and headed to grab my gear and get home to Melbourne.
And that is that, I think you can tell I am excited about where things are headed, I've never really had a feeling like this before and it is a little frightening. Usually good things fall away from me! Here is hoping the good times keep rolling :)

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