Nervous - New Job Tomorrow
Dec. 3rd, 2006 11:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
loracsIt's been more than 20 years since I walked into a new job. Everyone will be relative strangers - I've met a few during my interview, but I don't really know them. And they don't know me.
I went into my old job earlier today to clean up a few things. I'd planned to leave my keys in T's office, but then I decided I really should give them to someone because I have a master to the entire building. Now, I'm sure they would have been perfectly safe in her office. And I have no doubt she would acknowledge accepting them when I told her where I put them. And yet, I decided to keep them. I'll drop them off tomorrow. Is this reasonable or just an excuse to hold on to them for another day. I've never lost a set a keys. I have the first two I was given. Over the years, keys and responsibilities were added one by one. It will feel very final when I turn them in. At my new job I will receive a key card for access to my office. I'll never have a big old ring of work keys jingling in my pocket. Metal to plastic. Change comes whether we're ready for it or not, even when we've made the decision that started the dominoes moving.
I went into my old job earlier today to clean up a few things. I'd planned to leave my keys in T's office, but then I decided I really should give them to someone because I have a master to the entire building. Now, I'm sure they would have been perfectly safe in her office. And I have no doubt she would acknowledge accepting them when I told her where I put them. And yet, I decided to keep them. I'll drop them off tomorrow. Is this reasonable or just an excuse to hold on to them for another day. I've never lost a set a keys. I have the first two I was given. Over the years, keys and responsibilities were added one by one. It will feel very final when I turn them in. At my new job I will receive a key card for access to my office. I'll never have a big old ring of work keys jingling in my pocket. Metal to plastic. Change comes whether we're ready for it or not, even when we've made the decision that started the dominoes moving.
