Yet another productive few days - and the week's only half over!
Monday I had my orientation session at work, collected my uniform and filled out all the paperwork needed, as well as watching a training video - but I had to do that at home because their video player wasn't working.
Since the roster is put up seven days in advance, I don't actually start working until next week, but that's all good. The first week is just in a training role - so I will be doing things but nothing unsupervised until I catch on and can start doing things normally. It actually works out well that I don't go in this week - that way I can spend as much time as possible on study for the next exam - and this exam is quite a big one. Not that the material is harder than the others, but there is considerably more of it in this one. So, with plenty to learn in the next week its probably a good thing that I dont start work just yet. The exam is Tuesday, Wednesday is Australia Day, and I start working on Thursday.
It's exciting - though it remains to be seen just how exciting the work ends up being. Although, this job isnt supposed to be for stimulation of the mind - thats what study and uni are for.
Today was my training session at uni for the SIGN program - being a point of contact for new first-years who have questions and don't understand the uni system, or where things are, or who to contact in various situations. I get assigned a group of about five first-years and hopefully help them transition into uni life. The session was fun and exciting enough - and they even provided free lunch!
