This is going to be a quick one. I am going to do my best to keep these two worlds at bay with each other. But, it is probably worth some commentary after my first couple of days.

It was a two days over twenty-two months since I clocked into a desk job. There are definitely some pros and cons. I have to say that in some ways there have been some struggles. I am a contractor to a contractor and it can be a real sink or swim experience in this remote/Covid/big company atmosphere.

Sitting in on a couple meetings, I have seen where I can probably hit the ground running. It feels like old hat listening to project representatives sort of muddle through their assignments and not sure of how to proceed. I wanted to jump in an participate, but I don’t think that is exactly my role and it definitely wasn’t my assignment. I was just invited as a courtesy, something to do.

The culture seems positive. So far, it seems like there are reasonable amounts of work and the deadlines don’t feel killer. Often, that is a double edged sword leaving lots of time places for mediocracy to hide. It is one of my pet peeves, we will see.

I think that I mentioned this earlier, but my schedule is Central Time. So, I start work at 6AM but the nice thing is that I am finished by mid-afternoon. Being out of practice, the time in between end of work and bedtime sure does fly. I will have to get in the habit of more rigorous scheduling of my off time activities if I ever want to get anything done.

So far, we have managed to suspend the home office location in favor of not being sure where the best location would be. I haven’t started anything yet other than I bought a door over the weekend and it is not like I have had any time to do anything anyway. The weekend was packed and yesterday I committed to helping my son with his car.

Like I said at the top, I intend to go back to writing about skills and literature and all the things I have been doing over the year. But, I thought a couple of first impressions would make a quick check on this task.