As of last Friday at noon, I am employed with TEK Systems. I’ll be working a contract for Target for the next 90 days doing phone support. I’ve been told they almost always extend that to 1 year after those initial 90 days. After that, Target has the right to hire me permenantly and hopefully I can move into something more appealing that phone support.

For people who know me, this is pretty big news as this is probably my first real job. But for me it’s bittersweet. The morning drive is going to suck because the call center is downtown. This also means I’m going to have to pay for parking out the wazoo. I’m talking like $6-10 a day! While this doesn’t sound like much, it’s gonna make a somewhat low hourly rate a little worse. No doubt I’ll be looking for people to carpool with or a bus I can take.

My other big gripe with the job is the dress code. It’s business professional AKA shirt and tie. The simple fact is I don’t have that many ties or dress clothes. My budget really doesn’t allow for a new wardrobe either. I know there will have to be some new purchases sometime soon, but until then my coworkers are going to have to deal with my lack of variety.

All in all, I’m quite excited to be working for Target being that they’re such a big company and will no doubt have many opportunities once I’m in with the company. Surely these first few weeks are going to suck because my body will have to adjust to the earlier schedule. It’s always easier for me to slide into a later schedule than it is to start earlier. Being that I could be starting as early as 5AM for weeks at a time, I’ll be due for some major naps each day after work.