Today was my first day at my new job. :D The walk to work was terrible! I had to get out of bed and walk less than 10 feet! :shock:

I am used to walking quite a few miles every week for work, the gym and whatever else I might need to travel to get accomplished. So today was quite a change of pace for me. It was a really strange feeling getting up and eating breakfast at work, then cranking away at the work for the day.

The first thing I realized is that I will be doing more things during the day than I usually did at an actual work office. Both good and bad.

  • Frequent visits to the kitchen for oatmeal
  • Frequent visits to the bathroom from drinking so much water and not feeling like I should hold it for another 15 minutes
  • Leaving to run a quick errand
  • Managing interruptions during the day so I can actually get work done
  • Multitasking much more than usual

On first impression I was worried that I would have a hard time actually getting my work done. I have a pretty strong work ethic though and working on the computer is what I enjoy doing anyway. What I was surprised to find out was happening was more frequent visits to food central.

I was more surprised to find out how many more things I was working on than at an office. I thought that was very strange.

As expected though, there were many things I very much enjoyed about working from home

  • I can listen to my music without headphones
  • I don’t have to fix my hair in the morning or even shave
  • I don’t have to put pants on before I head out for work
  • I can eat at my desk without feeling uncomfortable and awkward
  • I can work how I want to work without anyone telling me how it should be
  • I don’t have to wear a shirt
  • I don’t have to worry about the tech guys cracking down on me because I visited a potentially bad website either on accident or on purpose
  • If I want to act like a retard I can do so without being judged

Now, for the bad things I wasn’t so fond of

  • No human interaction during the whole day can lead to some form of psychosis
  • When someone sees you acting like a retard because you had the window wide open it’s more embarrassing than your coworkers seeing you act like one :shock:
  • You have a higher potential of turning into that creepy guy who never leaves his apartment
  • You being a solo neighborhood watch and listen for kids so you can yell at them :-o

Anyway, day 1 of my new job has thus far gone well. We’ll see how things are going by this friday.