Some facts about my new job

• I am now a web editor for a Known Entertainment Journalism Venture, though I am still learning how to do the most basic of functions, and am very much a small player in a large organization. It's an interesting change of pace.
• And I feel fairly confident that the checks won't bounce. That's always exciting.
• The schedule is also new and exciting -- I start in the afternoon, and the hours typically run into the late evening.
• This means I have my mornings free, thus giving me the benefits of unemployment (sleeping in, time to work on my own projects, reading books for coverage under the covers, making my own coffee, sleeping in) with the benefits of employment (not having to sell organs on black market in order to make rent).
• And I have TiVo and friends who can stay up past 10. So it's really a pretty good arrangement so far.
• And as a part of my daily routine, I am posting TOMORROW'S NEWS TODAY.
• Please do not be too impressed. Most of tomorrow's news revolves around people getting new jobs after ankling old ones.
• I still have not figured out the dress code, and thus have been overdressing to a large extent, which puts me in the position of either having to keep it up, or do a dramatic downshift to Chucks.
• Based on my observations, I'm probably better off taking the former approach. I am going to need nicer shoes.
• But that's okay. Because I realized on my first day that this is possibly the first real adult job I've ever taken, the first time I felt taken seriously as an employee right from the start. I mean, I've had swell jobs in the past, but none of them greeted me on my first day with a desk, computer, and phone (complete with phone extension!). It's incredible, the difference that makes.
• So things are good for right now. And the future, as always, remains unwritten.

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posted by Liz  # 10:29 PM

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Aha, better to comment here than on your feed. Go you, I say! Yay!
# posted by  Robbie : December 11, 2007 11:29:00 PM PST 

Go you with the employment! And the real job!!!
# posted by  Annie : December 12, 2007 2:44:00 PM PST 

Congrats on the new gig! I remember the elation of having my own extension. It gives you that "I matter" feeling. Don't worry - it passes.
# posted by  Brice : December 12, 2007 5:54:00 PM PST 

Thanks guys! And yeah, Brice, you're totally right. But oh, this fleeting sense of power!
# posted by  Liz : December 13, 2007 2:39:00 AM PST 

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