It's been a while since my last blog update, but no, I haven't gone out of existence yet. I've just been very busy with graduation, work, and life in general. But lately I've had more than a few thoughts on my mind, especially since I will be officially 'reaching adulthood' in the next five days. One of these things, of course, is work. For those of you who haven't been told, I'm working full time at the local Air Force Base as a lab assistant. It's a very kind and awful change for me. (Yes, I contradicted myself.) The hours are longer than school, but the pay's pretty good and I think overall not having to pay as much for college will be worth it.
So, this day's blog theme is going to be everything I've learned from work so far, because a lot of people have been asking me how work is going. So here is the list of twenty things I've learned from work:
1. Nobody on base drives the speed limit.
2. There are zillions of police cars on base, but none of them seem to notice that nobody drives the speed limit.
3. The government takes forever to do things.
4. The government actually pays you to sit around and do nothing while they take forever to do things. This is a process called 'in-processing' where you sign a bunch of paperwork that says the same thing over and over again.
5. As noted above, the government is very repetitive.
6. My car gets 35 miles per gallon. Considering the drive to where I work is about forty minutes, I'd say that's a very nice bonus for me.
7. There are lots of adorable little animals on base.
8. The 'bird's nests' at the optical range I work at look suspiciously like beehives.
9. You need to make sure you use the right card key to open a locked door, otherwise you will frustrate yourself needlessly for up to ten minutes.
10. I am the IRL equivalent to Portal 2's Caroline. My boss is Mr. Johnson, I spend all day 'testing', and I was offered chocolate cake last week. <_<
11. It is really a self-esteem booster when you get to name a camera.
12. It's not a self-esteem booster when you begin talking to said camera as though it was a real person.
13. It's really not a self-esteem booster when the camera decides to go nuts after you talk to it as though it was a real person.
14. It's a big relief to figure out it wasn't actually you who ruined said camera.
15. Office chairs are not comfortable at all.
16. Friday Burger Burns are now probably the highlight of my weekdays.
17. IPod Nanos are lifesavers.
18. PCs really are better than Macs.
19. Never take anything personal on base. Everyone has been trained to think that anyone around them could be a possible Russian spy.
20. Getting a paycheck after two weeks of excessive learning is really really awesome.
(Also, Super 8 was really really amazing, you all should go see it now. :3 )
