Week 1: 2014-02-08

Well this past week was my first week on the new job.  New chapter in this noob’s life.  My three words for this week…

• New: Everything is new.  I’m taking the T to the office, I’m meeting new people, I have a new office, I have a new laptop, I have new words to learn, and new concepts to learn.  It’s great.  It’s forcing my neurons to form new linkages, which is a great way to know that I’m alive!
• TLAs: There are so many new three letter acronyms (TLAs) that I have to learn!!!  It doesn’t stop at TLAs, there are so many new concepts, or words being utilized in with specific meaning.  It’s going to be interesting.  I hope I can learn this fast enough.
• Sleep: I’m pretty amazed by the amount of sleep that I’ve needed this week.  I think it may be tied to everything being new and my system being overstimulated, but i’ve regularly gone to bed at 10:00/10:30 and slept right through to 6:30,  I didn’t use to need this much sleep… it’ll be interesting to see how this goes.

• 6 Weeks: I have six weeks to pick up as much as I can to step into the shoes of the person that I will be taking over for… This will prove to be interesting.