Succeed in my new job

I have got a new job as an “Account Executive” for a web design company, this is my first real, grown up job, and the first one that is really on my choosen career path. I will be doing it part time and juggling uni studies! I have no experience and am v scared and daunted and really want to be good at this!

I’ve succeeded in not being laid off in the last two massive 10% staff cuts that were intended to save the company millions and make stockholders happy.

So. If I’m still here I’m making the stockholders happy?

That’s good, right?

I get so sad around christmas sometimes that I just stop. I crawl into bed and remain there until sometime in January.
Obviously this means I cannot hold down a stable job, but this year something happened and I got a good job… I am scared I am going to lose it.

I want to succeed in my new job and to me that means making it through december with no days off or tears and doing the very best I can:)

It’s my anniversary today, and I didn’t get fired!

I’m taking my success where I find it this week. Things are still tough, I’m still the small fish in the big ocean, but I’m also still there.

Just keep swimming. Indeed.

And I’m very certain that will never be the case.

I’m pretty far from succeeding at this point, and it’s starting to hurt me a little. My attitude/mood has not been the best, and I’m a distracted me with my own little issues and goings on keeping me absolutely nuts.

How many jobs should one person have before they are committed to the asylum. I’m thinking of writing a book, The Boy with too many Ideas, A Cautionary Tale.

But tomorrow it’s back to the cube. Be awesome, dammit.

This was my desk for the first two days. Then I got a monitor. Only a monitor.

The company laptop followed, and some very minor training. But a long week of absorbing this new language at occasional meetings and trying to grasp at bits like melting snow.

It will take time. Be patient. The flood of too many things to do will come so soon.

I know I know.

Next week I start a job where I will no longer be the smartest guy in the room (at least when it comes to computers). This is going to be a bit daunting, but ultimately, I’m hopeful (while frightened).

I must stretch and find new ways to kick ass. Goodness, let’s hope so. I need to kick it.

This is important.

I guess succeeding is always worth doing, even if just for a while. But I am not my job, my job is not me. I’ll always feel quite seperate from my employment. I will always try hard and work smart, but success is difficult to define. One week when I was particularly successful I was least appreciated and most exhausted -so go figure!

This goal is complete in so far as it could ever be measured. I can see there are more important things to be doing, like staying healthy and being happy – not necessarily anything to do with today’s workplace!

I’ve been working at S&S for two months and it’s going good. 4th of July was crazy O_O

Today was my fifth day of training at my new job…first job other than working next door to my house at camp. And everything is going well. By talking to the customers everyday and being in a friendly atmosphere, I have become more outgoing :D I’ve already used the register and even handled cash (which I need to get used to because I’m as slow as molasses lol) I like my job so far. I’m positive it’ll stay that way too! Stop & Shop by the way.