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clevermanka) wrote2021-06-19 07:50 am
Saturday
Fanart: Botany Prof. Shen. Mermaid Shen Wei. Love this sketchy style.
Yesterday was a day. Everyone in the office seems cool and chill, though.
The front desk person is a Kpop fan and reads fanfic, the undergrad coordinator who has the office that branches off from mine might be a bigger nerd than me, our accounting dude wears plaid shirts with cowboy boots and loves his two cats, and y’all already know how I feel about the chair.
I met the prof who is the faculty graduate person and seems very invested in doing right by the grad students. Kind of excessively. Like to the point where he wants to continue doing some duties for a few months (handbook updates, responses to potential applicants) until I get up to speed. Not for micro-managing purposes, but he’s just real committed (after 19 years with various graduate coordinator faculty members I can tell the difference). Also he’s funny, self-deprecating, and talks glowingly about his wife all the time.
I was fucking wiped out by the time I got home. Managed an eight-word Tweet letting people know I survived but didn’t have the energy for anything else. Some of that is probably fallout from basically not eating for two days because nerves and having to be ~on~ while meeting a whole slew of people. Crossing fingers hard it eases up/I acclimate because when I got home all I could do was sit on the couch in a kind of stupor. Even music was too much. I started to feel a little better around 8pm but was still very happy when it was late enough I could go to bed. Dragging a bit today, obviously.
A full week of work next week!
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Yup, that's the first day of work. As a veteran of many new jobs, expect much of the same next week, too. It will ease up as you gain endurance, but be kind to yourself for the next month. ♥
I've got a few co-workers who have kids going into day-care and kindergarten, and they have this newfangled thing called graduated entry--start with 2 hours, then a half day, then after two week they are at the full day. I think the first 2 weeks at a job should work the same way!
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A gradual ramping up would be SO SMART! Absolutely new jobs should work like that, too.
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The anti-capitalist in me is side-eyeing that some languages do have a word for it, ๐ but ngl the sentiment is real and appreciated!
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Hope you managed to get a bit of rest over the weekend! Sounds like it's all going on all at once at the moment *hugs*
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Yay Plant Head Professor Shen!
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Yay for getting through the first day! I hope you'll like your job as much as this first impression makes it look. <3
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I keep reassuring myself that even someone without fatigue issues would get worn out after their first day of work in TWO YEARS and I'm probably gonna keep feeling tired like this for maybe a couple weeks until I settle in. Doesn't (necessarily) mean anything long term. At this point my brain is primed for catastrophe though and it's a hard mentality to get away from. You can probably sympathize.
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Getting used to a new routine is HARD and I would expect that to take some time even without health challenges. I hope the being WIPED will ease up a bit as you go. โค๏ธ
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