The Work Blues

Lately I’ve been feeling despondency towards work. Or to be more exact, the excitement of the job faded away after the first two weeks, which were very frustrating. The previous girl left so I had no training at all, and the business manager who hired me was also new, only a month or so on the job. All the procedures and rules we had to follow were a pain. But rules are rules and I’m used to them by now.

After the initial two weeks, we had Ema come in full time so things now aren’t as bad as they used to be. This blog has always been a place where I can say what I want to but I figured, if I didn’t complain about work here then I wouldn’t have such a negative views. That worked well. Anyway, now that I think about it, I should have written about it since it’s the best way I know how to deal with it.

I’m usually good about work, but this past month, things have been piling up with my school projects so I’ve missed out a couple days at work – which is never a good thing. I got in trouble jsut today about it but I’ve resolved to not miss any more days of work from now on mainly because I don’t want to look for another one that will work with my part time schedule. The people aren’t so bad here and more times than not I get so sit here and do my own thing. It’s the work (when I do have work) that makes me a bit depressed. So I asked one of my bosses if I could be an intern for the feasibility studies we do here. As a consulting company, it’s doing pretty well.

At least this way I can apply what I’ve learned to work and maybe get some good stuff to write on my resume. Most likely I’ll be doing the grunt work and number crunching. As well as putting together the powerpoint slides. It’s better to get something out of work than nothing. This way, I won’t feel like I’ve wasted time.

But why can’t I feel a bit happier about it?