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Slowly getting acclimated to my new job. There's a lot to it that I haven't found out yet though. Like the grant monitoring/reports, the budget monitoring, equipment tracking, and probably bunches of other stuff.
The level of social interaction is so different from my days in public accounting. There I was working on tax returns & audits, and everything was almost constantly involving other people. From getting information from clients, discussing review comments, and the list just goes on an d on. There wasn't a day that went by in public accounting that I wasn't interacting with at least 5 (usually closer to 7 or 8) people. At length, too.
But here? Other than the one gal who has been training me, I haven't said more than 10 words to anybody. All week. It's weird. I'm the only accountant amongst a bunch of lawyers, legal secretaries, & office assistants. Part of me wonders if they'll ever deign to talk to me. Or if I'll ever get to know my new coworkers.
The other thing that's weird is that I'm not coming home feeling like I want to hole up in my apartment all weekend and not talk to anyone or do anything. I'm not coming home all-peopled-out.
My boyfriend says it's a good sign that I've found a happy balance. I assume he meant between the exhaustion that too many people does to little introverted me, and the boredom/lonelyness of no interaction. He didn't get much sleep last night and wasn't the most coherent. He said he'd sleep on whether or not he still wants to come over to visit me this weekend. He said that he's worried about how it would look to his hosts to tell them he didn't have the money to move out this month and then turn around and spend money on a visit out here to see me. I suppose I can understand that, but I want to see him dammit. We both have 3 day weekends (plus his extra day off he gets every other week makes it a 4 day weekend for him).
The level of social interaction is so different from my days in public accounting. There I was working on tax returns & audits, and everything was almost constantly involving other people. From getting information from clients, discussing review comments, and the list just goes on an d on. There wasn't a day that went by in public accounting that I wasn't interacting with at least 5 (usually closer to 7 or 8) people. At length, too.
But here? Other than the one gal who has been training me, I haven't said more than 10 words to anybody. All week. It's weird. I'm the only accountant amongst a bunch of lawyers, legal secretaries, & office assistants. Part of me wonders if they'll ever deign to talk to me. Or if I'll ever get to know my new coworkers.
The other thing that's weird is that I'm not coming home feeling like I want to hole up in my apartment all weekend and not talk to anyone or do anything. I'm not coming home all-peopled-out.
My boyfriend says it's a good sign that I've found a happy balance. I assume he meant between the exhaustion that too many people does to little introverted me, and the boredom/lonelyness of no interaction. He didn't get much sleep last night and wasn't the most coherent. He said he'd sleep on whether or not he still wants to come over to visit me this weekend. He said that he's worried about how it would look to his hosts to tell them he didn't have the money to move out this month and then turn around and spend money on a visit out here to see me. I suppose I can understand that, but I want to see him dammit. We both have 3 day weekends (plus his extra day off he gets every other week makes it a 4 day weekend for him).