Insanely Awe-dical

It's been way too long. Way too long. Last post was regarding New Years? Feels like it's been longer. Tony posted about how he has been ignoring his blog, but I've been worse. It's good keeping up with his stuff through his blog; it makes me feel like I want to change my posts to something with a little more form, rather then streaming rants straight from brain to text.

I'm definitely working for a real company now (it's an actual corporation!) and I've realized from a couple of things that this is a real adult (read: older) workplace.

Compare to QLF: younger, more intense workers. Jobs that do not require college or higher education, or even lots of work experience. Sales department full of cocky, smooth-talking salespeople -- bright smile, slick back hair, conversation script, etc. Powerful, yet comforting voices running their mouths making the sales. Even the processing department had a lot of young people, even to the point where some where straight out of high school.

Fast forward to NGC: experienced engineers and number crunchers; project management, sectors, functions, departments, protocol. Golf chitchat (I shot a 94), watercooler and coffee mumbo-jumbo (if you take the last cup, make a new pot), cubes and the low hum of copy machines, keyboard strokes and coffee sipping. Casual/Happy Friday and Happy Mondays, internal audits, org charts, acronyms, meetings, CCs, deadlines…

There are so many acronyms, there is a website that they give to new employees that you can use to search for what an acronym means (already bookmarked). It is pretty nice to work for a company that was once called Company of the Year by Forbes.

I'm going to miss QLF. Every job has that period where you come in and don't say much because you don't know anyone. Breaking out of that period is tough, but I was able to do it at QLF (thanks to the social nature of my HR/IT positions). I hope I'll be able to do that here too, but I can't help but miss the whole feeling of going to work and knowing how comfortable I would be. Good team, good people, lots of smiles and positive characters.

Big announcement: Kate got into grad school! I'm so proud of her. She'll be attending Touro University in Las Vegas. The crazy thing is she'll be starting the day after her graduation. No rest for this girl, but I'm so happy for her and I'm so excited she'll be able to achieve higher learning and become a PA.

The scary thing is that she'll be in LV by herself -- me and her family will have to be here still, and that may be a tough transition. Hopefully some people could stay with her for week 1 to help her transition. It should be easier since most have graduated/finished school by that point (even if you're attending summer school, you have at least a week break).