First Day at Work

~Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas.
~Paula Poundstone

Oh my, first day at work. Well, we didn't really work... but it was my first day there. It's at Beehive Clothing and I'll be sewing :) There are six of us new employees-and everyone seemed to know who we were. They did have a stand as they read our names at the devotional though...

I've had one other job before-and it was really informal. I worked at Custom Events. We put on carnivals with inflatables and rock walls and food and everything. I didn't need an interview. We had a meeting with parents and they told me where to meet for my first day. They kind of just stuck me on the job... not like it was hard to figure out though :)

This job is really different. I had the interview and test with a physical therapist. Today, and I think tomorrow, are, like, orientation days. We got cards and pictures taken for them. We watched a movie on working in the church. We went over a million forms that are so over my head. And then we went over insurance stuff... oh goodness!

I'm hired as a full time employee. But I'm doing it more as a summer job-that I started really late :) I'm leaving for France September 8th. They don't know that and I feel kind of bad about that. I can only work a month and a half... But I need the money and it's a job and they said in the forms I could quit whenever... :)

Oh, and we have a family vacation next week at Snowbird. For the last few weeks I've just planned on going up some afternoons and on the weekend... But apparently we get the whole week off! Well, I'm excited about going on vacation, but I really do need the money-and then I'll just work even less before I quit. But, next Friday IS a paid holiday :)

We also got to go on a tour-which was super cool. It's amazing how everything works! We got breakfast and lunch-only two hours apart though... and it felt a heck of a lot like middle school and high school. There wasn't much I wanted to eat and I wasn't particularly hungry. And though they gave us a paper with so much money we could spend-I used less than half that. I sat with the other new employees-but we were all really quiet. I never transferred schools or moved but I'd imagine it would feel a lot like that-besides having the group of other new people.

I'm kind of excited but also worried I won't be able to do it very well. And I've never had a full time job and eight and a half hours a day seems like a long time :)