First day!

Well today was relaxing for the most part…

Except that I find out my direct supervisor/lead is leaving!

He gave his notice on Thursday!

Now I’ll be without a direct lead.

It also means I get to take over quite a bit of what was on his plate…

at least related to ISO27001.

This should make for an interesting transition.

A definite sink or swim opportunity.

And I say opportunity because I tend to swim than sink.

It’s that afraid-of-drowning/failure thing.

But I get to take over the “mafia list” and manage all existing relationships.

Perhaps build some new ones too.

Excited for the challenge…a doable one I believe.

The only thing that it kind of throws off is my goals that I wrote in my last post.

I said I wanted to learn to relax.

I just don’t how I will be able to when I get a brain dump all of tomorrow and the rest of this week.

I only have this week to learn most everything that is in that man’s head!

And then he’s gone.

Like a whisper in the wind.

I thought that I would have a whole week to just get acclimated and do all my “new hire” stuffs.

But NOOoOOOOoooo!

At around 4:45pm today EL asked me how my first day was.

I told her it went by fast and I felt like I hardly got anything done…and I still need to do so much more.

But there’s not enough time in the day!

And she says, “That’s your mentality coming from WXYZ!”

And it hit me like a medicine ball to the face!

Yes, that IS the mentality from my former employer.

Two peeps left around 3:45, a few more at 4:45, and there were three of us left at 6pm.

I can’t believe I stayed that late.

Well, not really that late, but yes, late on a first day!

No more of that…

Tomorrow I’m leaving home at 7 to be at work by 8 and get the brain dump at 8:30.

Lunch will be around 11:30 and by 1:30pm I’ll get another brain dump.

I need to get some good sleep tonight to be on my game for tomorrow.

Aye yi yi!

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