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Planet-Black0psFirst Day at Work
And so it starts! Day 1, working as a web developer for South Wales Fire & Rescue Headquarters.
I didnt really have any first day nerves - well, not as such. In my mind I was fully confident - I was only phased by the initial complexity of the old building (Lanelay hall itself). Had to pop there a couple times to get a few forms sorted, but nothing bad.
I rest my case about the staff being friendly - very friendly actually. My manager's great! Extremely helpful and understanding, and great to 'general chat' to (as we get on with work of course :)). There are three of us tucked in a room which used to be the ICT department's kitchen - in all honesty though, I did not notice that until it was pointed out. Its a quiet little room - easy to concentrate in, but at the expense of no air conditioning! Can't have it all I s'pose. There are windows, and there is a fan nicely behind my chair, so if summer does decide to show itself, there are some ways of making the temperature bearable. There's just the three of us in that room (in respect of other staff's privacy, I'm not mentioning names) - the team itself is, as expected, very friendly.
After having a guided tour of the place, it was time to get on with work. First day, first week, so a suitable time to get used to the software they use (Sharepoint 2007). It seems to be a content management system, but the pages themselves are just pages - we create a new page, wallop some content in, set it to a template, and voila. Not really the way i'm used to, which is to pull the data for each page from a database. Then again, its using aspx, and I come from a PHP background - my aspx skills are generally beginner at the moment, but im a fast learner :). Keeping a positive note, its interesting to see Microsoft's side of the web development fence.
Getting to sleep last night seemed to be an absolute strike of luck. I honestly cant see how I managed to eventually get to sleep, but I started the day with 4 hours sleep. I didnt stay up all night, I just need to seriously adjust to a proper sleeping pattern.
First full time job - seems daunting in one sense. Spending 5 days a week on the same computer doing the same job for 8 hours - brings back my old "is this really how were meant to spend a life?" question. That has popped up a few times, and I have had (what I expected) a few second thoughts when I start to give in and pay attention to the negatives, but generally i'm bouncing back and looking at the positives. The money to me is NOT a positive - its a bonus. I cant look at a job and think "woohoo! money!". The job has to have some meaning to it. It's early days, and a culture shock, but here's hoping a good regular schedule will keep things on track.
Free gym, too!
I didnt really have any first day nerves - well, not as such. In my mind I was fully confident - I was only phased by the initial complexity of the old building (Lanelay hall itself). Had to pop there a couple times to get a few forms sorted, but nothing bad.
I rest my case about the staff being friendly - very friendly actually. My manager's great! Extremely helpful and understanding, and great to 'general chat' to (as we get on with work of course :)). There are three of us tucked in a room which used to be the ICT department's kitchen - in all honesty though, I did not notice that until it was pointed out. Its a quiet little room - easy to concentrate in, but at the expense of no air conditioning! Can't have it all I s'pose. There are windows, and there is a fan nicely behind my chair, so if summer does decide to show itself, there are some ways of making the temperature bearable. There's just the three of us in that room (in respect of other staff's privacy, I'm not mentioning names) - the team itself is, as expected, very friendly.
After having a guided tour of the place, it was time to get on with work. First day, first week, so a suitable time to get used to the software they use (Sharepoint 2007). It seems to be a content management system, but the pages themselves are just pages - we create a new page, wallop some content in, set it to a template, and voila. Not really the way i'm used to, which is to pull the data for each page from a database. Then again, its using aspx, and I come from a PHP background - my aspx skills are generally beginner at the moment, but im a fast learner :). Keeping a positive note, its interesting to see Microsoft's side of the web development fence.
Getting to sleep last night seemed to be an absolute strike of luck. I honestly cant see how I managed to eventually get to sleep, but I started the day with 4 hours sleep. I didnt stay up all night, I just need to seriously adjust to a proper sleeping pattern.
First full time job - seems daunting in one sense. Spending 5 days a week on the same computer doing the same job for 8 hours - brings back my old "is this really how were meant to spend a life?" question. That has popped up a few times, and I have had (what I expected) a few second thoughts when I start to give in and pay attention to the negatives, but generally i'm bouncing back and looking at the positives. The money to me is NOT a positive - its a bonus. I cant look at a job and think "woohoo! money!". The job has to have some meaning to it. It's early days, and a culture shock, but here's hoping a good regular schedule will keep things on track.
Free gym, too!