It has been a month at the new job and here are a few of my observations:
- It's great only having to gas up once a week because I only do 52 miles per day, round trip, instead of 80 (minimum)!
- I've been walking at lunchtime since the millyard has such great sidewalks and part of my walk is along the river. Lots of people like to walk that area too, it seems. my normal walk is a route a little over a mile, but I also do an alternate route that is about 1.5 miles.
- It's kind of weird not getting any kind of paycheck. I've had electronic deposit at all my jobs since the mid '90's, but have always gotten something on paper. Now I have to look up online to see how much was deposited in my account (it varies each time as the benefits are added to the mix - in a couple of checks, it should stabilize). I always thought it was a huge waste for me to get an entire piece of paper just to show me what the deductions were and what the deposit was - so I'm not complaining, it just takes getting used to.
- It sometimes sucks being the new person in a really busy place - I don't know enough to help at some of the stuff they need, and people don't have time to teach me (and still others are trying to take up their vacation time before they lose it, so aren't around).
- Some brands of ERP software have a lot less functionallity than ERP software I was using in 2000. The really sad part is that we are updating to the latest version and everyone is so excited because it is a huge leap forward from the version that is currently being used. Hopefully the rep is taking notes on what I would like added in future releases!
- It is odd, yet nice that I don't have to leave the house at 4:40 in the morning to avoid the traffic. At the same time, my new route to work has less passing zones so if I get behind a nervous Nellie (doing 10 MPH under the speed limit), I am really, really screwed!
- The dogs aren't very flexible when it comes to feeding time; they were just adjusting to getting up later (5 AM vs 3:30) when the time change hit - now they want to be fed at 4.
- I finally decided that I can no longer use the change in schedule as an excuse to avoid working out. This week I worked out 3 of the mornings before going to work. Now I just have to keep it going.
See, I actually can post something other than, "Well, duh, it was a week and nothing really happened."
Wow! Glad that you are spending less time on the road. That has to be a big plus. Having a good place to walk doesn't hurt, either. Now...if you enjoy the work...won't that be great? (What is ERP? Enterprise something?)
Posted by: Cop Car | November 13, 2010 at 12:09 PM
I know I liked it when my commute dropped from 110 miles round trip per day down to 16 miles.
Have fun with the new ERP software. We're getting ready to upgrade ours and hopefully they will fix the problems we warned them about when we switched from one software vendor to another. When that switch was made they managed to keep all of the shortfalls from the original ERP software AND added new ones. This time around they say they'll have fixed all the problems.
Yeah. Sure.
Posted by: DCE | November 14, 2010 at 09:19 PM
ERP = Enterprise Resource Planning
Posted by: bogie | November 15, 2010 at 04:52 AM
*Dope slapping myself* Now I recall that, back in 1985, when I wrote the Engineering Management Plan book for a proposal to provide a country-wide system for USAF aircraft maintenance depots, we had MRPII. Better you should work with that stuff than me (I know...you've been doing it for a few years!)
Posted by: Cop Car | November 15, 2010 at 09:09 AM