Misconceptions I had about the workforce

Let me start this off by saying, my college did a wonderful job of preparing me for the "real world," but there were definitely some misconceptions I had about the process of finding a job, interviewing and having a job. My mass communication professors are some of the best around and I wouldn't be where I am without them... That being said...my list of misconceptions about the workforce:

#1 No need to rush:
          In college, you get a project/paper and you procrastinate and then you get it done as fast as possible, while giving your best work of course, and turn it in. Following that project in college there was always a new project. In the workplace, it's not always like that. Sometimes it's different of course but that's another number. In a job, you are given a something to do and you do it, I mean you are already there there's no need to procrastinate but there's also no need to rush. If you rush and don't already have another task in line, sometimes there's just nothing there.

#2 There's no re-tests
       This somewhat goes along with #1, if you rush and don't catch every mistake, it isn't just a letter grade, your mistakes could cost your company money. You don't catch errors in something being printed and it has to be re-printed, or you order the wrong quantity of something, or you give a customer the wrong information...you will be held accountable, it may cost the company money, you have to take responsibility--there's no retests

#3 There's still Drama
   Welcome to your new job, means welcome to your new "high school" when speaking of drama. There are still the same very "clicks" that you were around in high school. There are gossips, tattle-tails, brown-nosers, the bad asses, class clowns, popular kids and the geeks. Honestly, I just thought of specific people or sections of my job when  writing that--it's 100% true. Watch out, choose wisely.

#4 No one is completely honest in an interview.
Whether you are the one interviewing or doing the interview, they are awkward. No one is ever completely telling the truth. You may think you are the only one streching the truth in your experience and excitement about the job, while the person interviewing you is doing their best to make you think this is the best job ever and how wonderful the company. Once you get the job, you learn the truth both ways--they learn how qualified you really are and you learn what they really think of the job

#5 Work can be fun
    So you didn't end up with your dream job? Who did? In this economy I doubt many have found it, actually in any economy I doubt people have found it. But you can make the best of it. Meet people, walk around your office to talk to people, don't take work seriously all the time. Do your work, but laugh about your frustrations, go out with work people every once in awhile, have fun doing what you're doing...it can happen, I know..

I'll have more of these to come, but for now this is what you get! :)

Welcome to my cube....

On February 22, 2010, I started my first out of college, full time, salaried job. Almost a full year later, I'm still there, still learning, still growing, still enjoying the ride, oh ya...and my cube! 

Finding a job is not a fun task, especially in the economy we currently live in. So when I walked across that stage on front campus of Georgia College & State University, May 9, 2009, there wasn't just excitement and accomplishment going through my mind, there was also fear and anxiousness.

It took me 9 months, an internship and several months of waiting tables, to find my job. I feel as though that time brought a lot of expectations, many thoughts on how I thought, or was told, life in a cube would be, and boy was I wrong. 

I believe every workplace is different but the situations that present themselves are somehow very similar and sometimes very comical. So, as my new year's resolution I've decided to start this blog. A blog about my job, in generalities of course, to help clear up some of those expectations of those not yet in the work force, to help find the similarities of day to day happenings, mundane tasks and frustrations held by those already in the work place and most of all (because I doubt anyone will ever read this but me) to give me a writing outlet to work out the thoughts that form my enigma of a mind. 

That being said....welcome to my life, welcome to my cube...