Aug 18
Started work 6 days ago. It's been
a whirlwind. The positive is I got a pretty decent company. They're far from
perfect, but you can't bring value to a perfect company, and if I don't bring
value there's zero chance of a permanent job. (Not that I think there's much
chance of a permanent job anyway, but hey, I can try.) And besides, as a
government-sponsored trainee I'm glad they're actually taking the effort to
train, rather than going through the motions. That's the least I could ask for.
Anyway, I'm constantly tired as hell and I don't have the energy to play much, even less the time. For the first week I managed to quietly get 1-2 hours a day fooling around with my friends in that old game Paladins (by waking up at 1 AM and playing until 2 AM then going back to bed), but yesterday I realized work is so tiring that I can't even do that.
Sept 10
Tomorrow marks one calendar month
at work.
It’s actually a pretty tough job
and I have limited time for other stuff, writing included. I average 45-50 hours
a week in the office. Normally if I have free time I would log into Onenote and
write, but since this company contracts to the military the laptops have no
internet. So I’m writing this on my phone, which I can’t do too much of as
there’s supervisory eyes everywhere.
I’m also a little bummed because I’ve been searching everywhere for interesting boss fights and find none related to my game. I feel like I need more research.
Sept 13
I just realized it's been over a
month since I last posted to my blog.
Work has taken up my life. I've
been clocking about 46-47-ish hours a week in the office. The work isn't
exactly easy, either, at least not for my tiny brain.
Problem with all my training at
university is they teach stuff, but not really how to apply it in a workplace.
Like universities taught marginal return of labor, but this company's HR has no
way of measuring that, and finance is just too busy to help. So what do you do?
The company right now just guesstimates the marginal cost of short-staffing, which
I think is problematic - the costs are much, much higher than most people
imagine, even experienced managers.
