Ch-ch-ch-changes!

So far this week has proven to be an adventurous one for me.  I started a new job, with a new team of people and a very new commute!  My apologies that I have been a little more quiet these past few weeks, but this transition has kind of turned my world upside down a bit in the short term.  I find it funny how our day-to-day realities can be so incredibly rooted in our job and surroundings.  For example, I never really made any connection to me as a person with my office, the building/property that I worked from or my mode of transportation.  Now that all of those things have changed drastically, I am starting to wonder how come I never noticed that they were all connected?   

So right off the bat there are a few things that are A-mazing for me in my new “life.”  To start, no one here talks about sports!  Literally, no one!  For the last 10 years, I have been surrounded by sports loving people and have always felt a little out of place.  I guess I even decided along the way that it was ME that was the outcast and that everyone, everywhere else was the same.  Don’t you love how we always blame ourselves…?!?  Anyhow, at lunch on my very first day, I felt more engaged in the conversation, surrounded by people I had met just once previously, than I did at my farewell lunch with the people I had been working with for years and years.  Turns out, I’m not all that crazy. 

Also, as a more “touchy-feely” personality amongst a bunch of men and sports lovers, again – I became a stand out personality.  Sometimes in a good way, but I often felt like a burden or like a little girl looking for acceptance.  Don’t get me wrong, I will always be a chatter box…  It’s a part of who I am, but I am no longer THE chatter box!  Wahoo!  In fact, I am pretty sure I fall right about the middle somewhere here.   

Outside of the personality changes in my new job, I am looking at a hundred other new things as well.  I mean, there’s the commute which is a story in itself.  Driving to daycare to drop off my daughter, then to the train station to find a parking spot, paying the $4 to park in the teeny tiny spot for your number, waiting for the train, riding the train, walking to the office with literally hundreds of other people…..   repeat in reverse at end of day. 

What I think I find to be the most challenging to get used to though is the adventure of getting lunch.  There are just SO many people in such a small amount of real estate that no matter where you go for lunch it is absolutely crazy!  Like 30 people in front of you in line to order crazy…  Like the guy at the register responding to your “Hi, how are you today”… with an “Ok now, let’s have it.”  Yup, that happened.   

Hopefully this new adventure will bring me lots of new stories to share and interesting things to talk with you about.  Though, I wonder if anything can really compare to all my years working in golf with volunteers.  Years and years of hugs from strangers, lip kisses from acquaintances, and I love you’s from casual friends.  I hope so, but for now, I am still not sure.     

 

And because it has been stuck in my head since I wrote this title hours ago...  here's a link to the song Changes by David Bowie.  http://youtu.be/B8ZuhkN1sW0 

UPDATED: For those of you who have asked here is a pic of my fabulous new "office".... Can you hashtag in a blog? #cubelife