From A Grad To An Employee - The Journey

 
I have a job! Yay! Or so I thought.

I went from being a tensed unemployed graduate to an unhappily employed one. I thought I signed up for a job, it hit me a few days later that I had in fact signed away all rights to my 12-hours a day sleep. Remember those days when you see the rising sun because you have been up all night, they seem like medieval history now. Sleeping in till noon? That's ancient history.
I went from being a person who went for movies on a Monday morning to a weekend dud. Yes, I am disappointed. From someone who was ready for anywhere anytime, settling in this life of weekends or to having-a-life-only-on-weekends is quite a challenge.

To know me and every other college grad in short -

1. I am not punctual. In college I was ALWAYS late for class. If the class starts at 8:30, I reach at 9. But when you are working, it is not as simple as just your teacher warning you. You have bosses who keep a track of your record and would evaluate you on a monthly basis. Tardiness, bub-byee!

2. Bunking classes is easy, bunking entire days, no problem. Ditching work? When your pay gets cut with every leave, let's just say going to work gets easier.

3. Remember when you left your assignments till the last possible minute to submit? Well, now you have deadlines Every. Single. Day. So when do you procrastinate - Never.

4. My weekends used to include partying and being excited over nothing since everyday was a weekend. Now I look forward to catch up on all that sleep. Sundays, I am married to my bed.

5. Offices are following this trend of allowing casual wear to work. Few of them at least. So when I got ecstatic thinking my college wardrobe wouldn't go in the garbage, I forgot how most of the clothes I owned were either too flashy or too short or too kiddish to be seen within a 10 mile radius of office. For those of you stuck with formals, LIFE SUCKS.

6. HelloO Dark circles.

7. Let's get fat together. Not that I was thin to begin with but sitting and hogging all day long. Yes, I will be moving to Japan for Sumo wrestling pretty soon.

8. I missed my best friend's birthday PARTY (sobs)

9. Do you know the feeling of being perpetually tired? No, I do not mean sitting in class sleepy af because you were busy watching a Game of Thrones marathon last night. I am talking about that "last minute GROUP presentation that you were up all night preparing" tired. Now imagine that EveryDay. Imagine the group every day - the arguements, the fights, approvals, dissatisfaction, all the natural enemies and complications that come in a group. If that isn't enough to give you a headache, I don't know what is.

10. Last but not the least, you canNOT be an Ass. I miss the good ol' days when I could be rude to people on their face. How I felt, I behaved (because I was the Queen of the world and invincible).
Not so much now. For better or for worse the workplace will make a decent person out of me. *shivers*

As long as I am paid, Dobby will be a slave.


Jokes apart, my workplace is pretty awesome and luckily enough the people I am working with are chill so the Sarcasm's not going anywhere for now.


I love saying "office" - I am going to office, I am in office, left for office. Feels so grown up. i have yet to say "I am in a meeting" when someone calls mainly because no one really calls me.
On the plus side, the office wifi kicks ass! Snapchats don't take a second to download. Starbucks is opening on the ground floor. As soon as that happens, I will be in my personal heaven.



Maybe everything does get better, maybe we adapt and maybe it was all meant to be. Maybe I am right where I am supposed to be. In the river of maybe's let us sail with the current and maybe we will reach our destination. MAYBE.



Keep reading, keep believing.
Signing off.

XOXO
Pearl