I applied for a job a few weeks ago. I was interviewed twice for this position because they wanted to make sure I had all these specific high skills and abilities to do the job. I passed apparently, but only after they called to tell me they had picked the other person, then rang back a week later and told me, oops we messed up, want the job?

So my first day is uneventful, as are all first days. I’m doing random stuff to pass time while I am assuming they are preparing to teach me what I’m suppose to be doing, no, not really.

All I did all day was file unimportant papers. The boss wandered around the room asking everyone if they had any work for me to do and everyone said no so they dug up the oldest dustiest stack of papers they could find and asked me to sort them…. Which took all of two minutes and I was back asking for more things to do. Boss looked positively bewildered

I went home that day accepting the fact that the first day is always a bit all over the place and things would be better tomorrow. Wrong again.

The next day I spend all day doing the same thing and the next. At one point I yawned 25 times in about 3 minutes. This was ridiculous, the place just had no work for me. I wondered why they even hired me, they seemed to just want a temp.

The bottom line came, when walking into bosses office, after a grueling two minute stacking task and asked if there was anything else they wanted me to do. Boss looked around the room, picked up a stack of papers and shrugged.

“Not really…”
Held up his mug and said
“How good are you at making coffee?”

What a joke..At that I left and I intend to give the employment “assistance” office a piece of my mind about these employers.

Besides that crap, I have taken up violin lessons. It’s something I have always always wanted to do but never “got around to it” . I bought a beautiful second hand 4/4 violin and I had a great first lesson yesterday. Teacher said she was shocked I had avanced so much during one lesson and that I was a natural *beams* That made me feel a lot better.

I absolutely love it and it does feel natural to me. I’m have a bit of trouble with bow position and not hitting other strings when changing notes but other than than, it’s amazing. Why did I wait so long to learn?

I have no aspirations to be a professional, I just want to be a professional in my own mind hehe. I want to be able to play and play well, just as a gift to myself.