Bramble Tamble

Project control, while a fairly new field in the business world, has all of the excitement of a Discovery Channel marathon on the Pennsylvania Dutch.

It was with this in mind that I dozed off today reading a three-inch binder (stuffed with double-sided pages) detailing my company's project control processes.

Welcome to my new job!

Seriously - I spent the first 10 minutes or so after waking up this morning sitting on the edge of the tub with the biggest case of the nerves I've had since the hour before my wedding. I mean, throwing up nerves.

Fortunately, they are easing me into the position, which has its low points (inadvertent naptime, as detailed above) and its high points (the fact that I have plenty of time to stock up on anxiety medication to deal with the inevitable case of overwhelm that will set in in about a week's time, when I start working on my projects. With a net, thankfully, else I'd lose my mind).

Oh well. I think I'll get the hang of it. My immediate supervisor threw a lot at me on my first day (yesterday), painting the scene with broad strokes from a palette of many colors, making me wonder what exactly it is I've stepped into. I'd still appreciate a prayer or three, though, if you're into that sort of thing.

A person needs to eventually leave his comfort zone. I've had front-desk/CSR-type jobs almost all my working life - not because I love working with the public (I'd be much more of a people person if it weren't for people), but because that was really all that my employers and I would deem me qualified for, having only a high school diploma to my credit up until about two years ago. And I could have easily went for another admin assistant/personal bitch-type of job, and I considered it, because I'm still not certain I'm qualified for what I'm doing now.

Hopefully in about 20 years, I'll look back when I'm the president of my company and say, "I worked at the front desk till I was 32 years old." And, if I'm drunk when I say it, I'll add, "And that's 14 years of my life I'll never get back."

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