Survived First Week at Work

29May06

Last Friday marked the end of my first week at my new “real” job. Everyone at the company has been friendly and helpful. Different supervisors asked if everyone was treating me alright. Which they were, except for the normal teasing that guys do sometimes. It helped out that I had already met a few of the workers during the interview process and follow up phone calls. One of my friends from college also works in the same department. We interviewed at the same time, but he graduated a semester before me. So he has been there for about 6 months.

This past week was just orientation. I had to go to several classes and do a lot of self-studying. Nothing too exciting, but you got learn somewhere. Next week, I’ve got to go on a business trip to audit a hospital. I hope I can figure out what I’m doing! I guess they felt the best way for me to learn was to get out in the field early.

Oh yeah, the survival part in the title refers to the drive. Traffic is horrible. What normally should take an hour takes closer to an hour and a half. :(

Author: Matt   |   Filed under: Me & My Life   |  

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  1. 1 Joel Steidl on May 31st, 2006 said:

    Hi Matt,

    I noticed your post on Godbit (thanks for the write up) I noticed that you are from nashville (also my home).

    It sounds like you are doing accounting? What firm? (My wife works for Ernst & Young)

    I work for a small online marketing firm here in town, Paramore|Redd Online Marketing. I’m trying to push the web standards movement around here. (countrymusichalloffame.com & egyptatthefrist.org are a couple new ones)

    Anyway, thought I would say hello. Your blog looks nice.

    Joel

  2. 2 Matt on May 31st, 2006 said:

    Hey Joel,

    Cool. Nice to know another Godbit member lives in Nashville.

    No accounting here though the title “auditor” seems that way. That was like my least favorite subject (besides English) in college. Actually, I’m a information systems auditor. Do security, environmental, application, and other types of system audits. There are a ton of accounting people in my department though.

    Oh yeah, I work for HCA. I’m sure your wife knows about us if she works for E&Y.

    Nice sites by the way. Do you run a personal site? Good luck pushing the web standards movement. That reminds me that I need to get this blog up to standards–its still got a couple of minor validation issues.

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