there are indeed some dull aspects to regular five day forty hour workweek. seeing my steering wheel and what the streets look like at seven o'clock in the morning is no longer all that interesting to me.
but by the time i do actually arrive at work at my little legal division of unnamed large bureaucratic machine of a corporation, i can never guess what might happen throughout the course of any particular day. i am now a kind of legal secretary and receptionist. but definitely not like any kind i've envied or imagined before -- this is assuredly not lee holloway's life or job. as enviable as portions of her job may have been given my particular life's circumstances, i am happy to be where i am and be doing what i am doing now.
real-life practicing attorneys are definitely a bit different than i'd previously imagined them to be, as well, and i'm still attempting to decide if i really want to become one myself.
amusingly enough shortly after marking my three month mark in my current position, i was given a raise, and albeit small but a raise nonetheless. so, i can probably be okay with sticking around here for a while. my coworkers are interesting and amusing in their own individual ways. i enjoy my position apart from many of them to be able to observe their interactions and idiosyncrasies.
i have also become the person who gets asked constantly, 'hey, i don't really feel like figuring out how to do this or deal with this issue, could you please just take it, take care of it, and make it go away quickly." and, i do it without fail.
i'm proud of myself for taking on each and every day, and not hating the process or myself. i know this is not my destiny but merely a stepping stone along the way. i need to write more about it, for precisely two reasons, i miss writing a lot, and also i hope to find that writing down pieces along the way may seem the time will pass by more quickly than otherwise.
so in my second turn working for a large faceless corporation, i will make it work to my advantage, and time will only tell how creatively i may be able to accomplish that.
i am tremendously happy and excited to work though everyday, and also love being able to look toward the future with an entirely different perspective. right now, i do need to get back to my weekend, home life stuff, which may not be terribly interesting, but is assuredly equally as fulfilling as my work-life.