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First day of work went well. The people who were there when I arrived didn't know what I was supposed to be doing, and the network was down, and nothing couldbe done about it. The person who knows what I'm supposed to be doing is on vacation. The person who knows a little (the director) was 2 hours late because of all the flooding.
SO it was interesting. I have the equivalent of 200 pages of alien text... wait, no, I have the equivalent of maybe 50 pages of information written on small scraps of paper and post-its. Passwords, account names, URLS, etc. Half of it I could understand but didn't know what to do with, and the other half is a complete mystery to me. I have two computers (and my own office which, yes, has a window looking out into a happy forest and a dead cicada on the windowsil) and files were all OVER the place on them. No idea whathalf of them are about... but I managed to find some and understand some. It'd be better if I had some idea what was going on. But the stuff the director did know was all hardware. I am CRAP at hardware so I looked like a fool. I've never been a network admin before and here he is talking about system volumes and backing up databases and restarting the network and committing passwords to memory and not telling ANYONE at work. Yikes. SCARED! I feel VERY overwhelmed on that side of things. But strangely optimistic at the same time.
But the people are soooooooooooooooooooooo nice. One of the girls just started working there two weeks ago, and everyone's just really friendly. Definitely my kind of people, too. I especially liked the "When to Use Who vs. Whom" explanation on the whiteboard in the conference room. I love those people. *G*
I have to go in early tomorrow to start up the network (OMG I'm terrified- NO idea what I'm doing, LOL) and then go to orientation for the day. Then I'm going to my old job at 4:30 to work for a few hours. It's only Monday, though, and I'm already exhausted. I didn't get much sleep last night. Was nervous and hungry and nervous and I kept waking up every 10 minutes, scared I was going to sleep through my alarm. Then Maxwell Demon woke me up at 6:30 by chewing on a granola bar wrapper (yes, I can sleep with the TV on 5 feet away but the soft sound of a cat chewing plastic wakes me up and makes me sit straight up). I watched a bit of Angel on tv (which was on when I woke at 7am... and 7:06am... and 7:15am... etc. and on when my alarm went off at 7:45am) so that was a nice way to start the day. Nummy Angel and his Irish flashbacks...
Anyway... I'm overwhelmed but happy. I think I'll be more excited once I get into the swing of things and figure out what goes where and how to access all the files everywhere. And when person comes back from vacation with actual assignments for me. heehee
SO it was interesting. I have the equivalent of 200 pages of alien text... wait, no, I have the equivalent of maybe 50 pages of information written on small scraps of paper and post-its. Passwords, account names, URLS, etc. Half of it I could understand but didn't know what to do with, and the other half is a complete mystery to me. I have two computers (and my own office which, yes, has a window looking out into a happy forest and a dead cicada on the windowsil) and files were all OVER the place on them. No idea whathalf of them are about... but I managed to find some and understand some. It'd be better if I had some idea what was going on. But the stuff the director did know was all hardware. I am CRAP at hardware so I looked like a fool. I've never been a network admin before and here he is talking about system volumes and backing up databases and restarting the network and committing passwords to memory and not telling ANYONE at work. Yikes. SCARED! I feel VERY overwhelmed on that side of things. But strangely optimistic at the same time.
But the people are soooooooooooooooooooooo nice. One of the girls just started working there two weeks ago, and everyone's just really friendly. Definitely my kind of people, too. I especially liked the "When to Use Who vs. Whom" explanation on the whiteboard in the conference room. I love those people. *G*
I have to go in early tomorrow to start up the network (OMG I'm terrified- NO idea what I'm doing, LOL) and then go to orientation for the day. Then I'm going to my old job at 4:30 to work for a few hours. It's only Monday, though, and I'm already exhausted. I didn't get much sleep last night. Was nervous and hungry and nervous and I kept waking up every 10 minutes, scared I was going to sleep through my alarm. Then Maxwell Demon woke me up at 6:30 by chewing on a granola bar wrapper (yes, I can sleep with the TV on 5 feet away but the soft sound of a cat chewing plastic wakes me up and makes me sit straight up). I watched a bit of Angel on tv (which was on when I woke at 7am... and 7:06am... and 7:15am... etc. and on when my alarm went off at 7:45am) so that was a nice way to start the day. Nummy Angel and his Irish flashbacks...
Anyway... I'm overwhelmed but happy. I think I'll be more excited once I get into the swing of things and figure out what goes where and how to access all the files everywhere. And when person comes back from vacation with actual assignments for me. heehee
