fromaquizer this is it
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3 weeks ago
Today this is my mission, by friday arvo i want to leave the office, ontop of EVERYTHING
How to succeed in my new job
It made me
Very Happy 
"I have to say this first year at my first job has helped me become more mature, friendlier, more confident when talking to people, and more outgoing."
How I did it: I was simply nice to everyone, and now I have a lot of friends. I made sure I handled my share of responsibility when it came to what needed to be done. I did little favors for coworkers when they asked me, and well I still do. We all get along, and help each other out. Now that I've been there a long time, I help the new people as much I can. Regardless of whether they ask me or not, anything I can do to make their first and second week a little simpler.Working at the same place for a year feels surreal. I'm wondering where the time went, but I'm happy because I have a job that most people would dislike, but I love it there. Sometimes I have so much fun, I forget I'm at work.
Lessons & tips: -At a new job, enemies don't do you any good.Treat everyone with respect, but remember there's a good chance that not everyone's going to like you, even though you are being friendly.
-When you are trying to become everyone's friend, it's easy to see who the jerks are even when you hardly know anyone there, because there's no reason to dislike you. Thus, those who decide to have a problem with you are looking for some shit because they're jerks, but don't give them satisfaction. Kill 'em with kindness!
-Have fun with your job. Laugh at all the crap that goes on, and laugh those bad days away. Don't let it get to you.
-Be a fun coworker that everyone likes to joke with, but don't overdo it and completely avoid work so you can talk the whole time. The boss won't like that, and neither will the person that's doing what you're supposed to be doing. You have to find a balance, because you also don't want to be the person that no one wants to talk to because you take your job too seriously and you refuse to have a little fun.
Resources: Becoming friends with everyone helped. I don't dread going in to work, I like going in. All my friends are there, I see it as a social activity.
Incidentally, 4 months in, I started to crush on my supervisor, and these days I'm downright enamored with her. Shes flattered, and thinks its hilarious that everyone knows. It makes for an interesting first job.
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fromaquizer this is it
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3 months ago
Ok I can do it, but now i want to be exceptional at it!
fromaquizer this is it
Situation
6 months ago
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!
By any measure, or, a rose by another name?
9 months ago
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?
asparagoose is sitting alone wishing she had gone to bed when Graeme did
my new job
12 months ago
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:)
90 days
12 months ago
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.
Still not the smartest guy in the room
14 months ago
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.
Hmm.
15 months ago
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.
No longer the big fish...
16 months ago
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.
Quantify this how?
16 months ago
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!
