My new job
So I guess it is time to blog about it. I've had a total of 9 working days in it and so far so good. The first few days consisted of my freaking out and having no comprehension of what was going on. I'd have to ask for explainations on everything about three times over, nobody had any time, and I had major I.T issues with my phone/apps/email/roaming profile, on top of all of this it was the end of the month and a lot of instructions on big deals come through at this time and are very time sensitive it was pretty bad.
I was pretty depressed coming home those first few nights, I was just thinking about what I got myself into, it is hard going from one area where you have a natural apptitute to going to a place where you really have a small base knowledge of what the fuck is going on, it is a very hard mind shift to make. On the Thursday of my first week the senior person that I will be working with most of my clients came back and really helped me get a handle on things, gave my some motivation and at the end of the week told me that I had been doing an excellent job so far. That was something I really needed to hear so that was great.
The long weekend came and was pretty much eaten up by my sisters visit, so I didn't really feel like I got to recover, I went back to work this week and felt better about the fact that it was a short week, that helped me stay focused, I learnt a lot more stuff this week, was expected to handle more ad-hoc thing on my own and basically things started to gel a little more.
So the place and people itself are also pretty good, everything is a faster pace and people work very hard, everyone is pretty nice and generally want to get things done. On that note, I noticed that if I sent emails to people they'd get back to me either straight a way or a few hours, phone calls were returned straight away, a huge huge improvement over my last area, where everyone is very relaxed on getting back to people or need constant prodding to do stuff. People just take pride in what the do here and want to help, its great.
Also Wednesday morning was pretty interesting, the guy that does the economic announcements to the media came down to our floor and basically gave us a heads up on where the financial markets are going to go for the next month from his point of view. Extremely insightful, this guy must live and breathe this shit cause he know everything about every country and every market, unbelievable, I'll be interested to see how many of his predictions come true, he is a very bullish person so I think he is an overshooter, but will see how my conservative views match up against his next month :) .
This week I'm not really looking forward to, I dunno why, I think I am still adjusting to my new working hours, yeah, I work more now. My old job was a cinch and I'd rock in about 9, take over an hour for lunch, browse the internet a lot, take 2 15 minute breaks, and still have time to do my regular work and extra stuff on top of that, and still be ready to leave work at 5pm if I wanted to. These days I get in around 8:15am and take a decent lunch (still refuse to eat at my desk all or even most of the time, it is unhealthy for your body and your mind) and finish usually around 6ish, I try to leave work earlier so I can still walk home with my work friends from my old area, but that is getting harder to achieve, 95% of the people on my floor are still at work at 5:30pm, maybe 80% at 6pm, some of these people must pull 11 to 12 hours daily, that isn't going to be me any time soon!
More to come on this topic...
I was pretty depressed coming home those first few nights, I was just thinking about what I got myself into, it is hard going from one area where you have a natural apptitute to going to a place where you really have a small base knowledge of what the fuck is going on, it is a very hard mind shift to make. On the Thursday of my first week the senior person that I will be working with most of my clients came back and really helped me get a handle on things, gave my some motivation and at the end of the week told me that I had been doing an excellent job so far. That was something I really needed to hear so that was great.
The long weekend came and was pretty much eaten up by my sisters visit, so I didn't really feel like I got to recover, I went back to work this week and felt better about the fact that it was a short week, that helped me stay focused, I learnt a lot more stuff this week, was expected to handle more ad-hoc thing on my own and basically things started to gel a little more.
So the place and people itself are also pretty good, everything is a faster pace and people work very hard, everyone is pretty nice and generally want to get things done. On that note, I noticed that if I sent emails to people they'd get back to me either straight a way or a few hours, phone calls were returned straight away, a huge huge improvement over my last area, where everyone is very relaxed on getting back to people or need constant prodding to do stuff. People just take pride in what the do here and want to help, its great.
Also Wednesday morning was pretty interesting, the guy that does the economic announcements to the media came down to our floor and basically gave us a heads up on where the financial markets are going to go for the next month from his point of view. Extremely insightful, this guy must live and breathe this shit cause he know everything about every country and every market, unbelievable, I'll be interested to see how many of his predictions come true, he is a very bullish person so I think he is an overshooter, but will see how my conservative views match up against his next month :) .
This week I'm not really looking forward to, I dunno why, I think I am still adjusting to my new working hours, yeah, I work more now. My old job was a cinch and I'd rock in about 9, take over an hour for lunch, browse the internet a lot, take 2 15 minute breaks, and still have time to do my regular work and extra stuff on top of that, and still be ready to leave work at 5pm if I wanted to. These days I get in around 8:15am and take a decent lunch (still refuse to eat at my desk all or even most of the time, it is unhealthy for your body and your mind) and finish usually around 6ish, I try to leave work earlier so I can still walk home with my work friends from my old area, but that is getting harder to achieve, 95% of the people on my floor are still at work at 5:30pm, maybe 80% at 6pm, some of these people must pull 11 to 12 hours daily, that isn't going to be me any time soon!
More to come on this topic...
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