first day at new job

I had a crap start to my first day of work with BearingPoint. I did not sleep well at all. I think I only managed 2 hours of sleep.

After putting in the effort to get up early so I'd get to the office on time, good ol' public transport conspired to let me down - almost. Firstly, the bus I intended to catch was at least 10 minutes late to my stop. Not only was it late, but it was packed full as well. When the bus finally got to the train station, I had missed my train. Not that it mattered. They canceled the train I wanted to catch. Ah, but I had left some contingency in my plans. The following train is an express train that should get to the CBD by around 8:50AM. That should leave about 10 minutes to get to the office (it's not that far to walk, and I've been there before). To my dismay, they changed the express train to stopping-all-stations. Gaaaahhh. There is not a single nice thing I can say about our public transport system - especially the trains. They are run by a company known for sewage or waste management. Or something to that effect. Go figure. I elect to be a cynical smart-arse and say "start with shit; end up with shit".

Luckily I managed to get to the office without being stupidly late. 9:03AM according to the clock in the lift. That's not too bad, and give-or-take 5 minutes versus my clock, I'd say I got there just on time given all my set backs. Bah!

Anyways, as far as first days go, it was pretty hectic. I have training tomorrow (geez talk about hitting the ground running) for DataStage, so a lot of my induction activities had to be squeezed into one day. Particularly those activities that need to be completed during this week. My training starts tomorrow and ends on Friday. I'm glad, however, since it's training I want to be undertaking. So on first glance, they are looking out for my interests. Also, the people there seem to be really friendly. There's a light-hearted-ness to the banter, so my initial impressions are good. There seems to be a sense of community for the greater interest of everyone (and not just for the sake of the company's interests, either).

There seems to be a gig being lined-up for me that could utilise some of my existings skills. So I needed to complete my BearingPoint CV as soon as possible i.e. today! Luckily my existing CV is a good one that I could refer to and use as a 'template'. This exercise still took most of my day to complete. I still have a stack of forms to fill out before the end of the week. Hopefully I find some time in between training to fill them out.