Whew, today was my second day of work and it is tiring!! I am working full time now at Seattle Language Academy, and of course at the same time the wedding-planning stuff is ramping up.
It's pretty fun being a receptionist. In many ways I think I make a decent one, since I am friendly and of course I am not afraid of computers. (err... at least as long as I'm not doing anything that involves making a symlink. I did successfully troubleshoot printer problems today, so that was good!)
But, I might have one small issue. Today someone brought a container of cookies (Snickerdoodles, YUM) to a meeting, and afterward they left the cookies at reception. Now most secretaries would leave the cookies out for everyone to enjoy. I, on the other hand, gave one to the Japanese teacher because she happened to be right there, and then I ate all the rest of the except for maybe 2. Oops! But hey, it was 4pm and I was hungry! Whilst unemployed, I have gotten in this habit of having many small meals a day which is harder for me to do now.
It's really strange being the person that helps people... it's sort of like being on the other side of the looking glass. Since my old McDonald's days, I haven't had a job where I helped people. Unless you count the one time that I showed Pascal* how to write a for loop in Perl. (In fact, speaking of McDonalds, you could argue that giving someone a 1000 calorie 'value' meal isn't exactly 'helping' them, but hey let's not get into semantics here.)
I am not sure how it's going to go now that I don't have several hours a day to surf the web. I'm already not playing scramble, which is sad, and I may even have to cut back on FarmTown. On the other hand, I'm getting paid. Trade-offs! :)
*It's a funny story about Pascal - suffice it to say that he didn't stay in our lab for long, so I'm not sure how much my sage Perl wisdom impacted his life. But I felt helpful for a few minutes, which was cool.
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Well, as you are not only being friendly with people and can fix printer problems, I think that you will be doing fine. I just hope that there will no cookie boxes every day. It might have a devastating effect on you.
Amy, why are you a receptionist? I think I'm just not understanding why you wouldn't take a job where you could surf the internet 1/3 of the day than a poorly paid one that's below your ability. Is it just engineer burnout? That I can understand.
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