I haven't had the time nor the interest to sit down and ramble, but I have a few minutes between running about to do just that.
This is my last week at Meijer, which I'm approaching with mixed feelings. Let me get the obvious out of the way: the good times at Meijer have outweighed the really crappy times, so despite some rough weeks and months, I've had a very good six-year ride at Meijer. Thus, I'm sad to leave behind some really cool people, plenty of quirky daily customers, and one hell of a workout (walking around that place for eight hours adds up!).
But overall, I'm more thrilled for my potential future than I am sad about leaving Meijer.
I was usually scared in high school and college about "the real world." For all the learning that I did in school, I've never, ever felt prepared to get a "real" job outside of Meijer. Now that it is happening, I'm finding myself thrilled on a daily basis. I've been told up front that the work at my new job will be fairly tedious (a programmer's kind of tedious), but I'm still thrilled. For one, I'm working during the day shift like any other businessman; I'm commuting up and down I-75 every day; I'm organizing myself to stay tasked every week, blending my work responsibilities with my home responsibilities -- I just feel all "professional-like" and it's quite a feeling.
I've spent so long "growing up" and being told of life in the professional business world that when I graduated, I stopped myself in disbelief for a while, hoping that I wouldn't get a "real" job, to help me stay young.
Of course, the desire to move on from Meijer for financial reasons, to put my degree to work, and to do what I genuinely do love - working with computers and programming - have pushed me into the world of IT. Now that I'm just a week away from starting, I'm beginning to suddenly feel very, very grown-up. And it's about time.
Out.
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