I made it though my first day at my new job. It was relatively boring as far as days go. I came in bright and early, but no one was in the office yet. I talked to the receptionist, Joyce, for a little bit until someone came to let me into my office. I should say, don’t take that to mean I have my own office. We essentially have a suite in an office-type building. There’s a bank, the Richfield Commerce Center offices, a restaurant named Hoolihan’s, some kind of clinic, and of course Carrousel Travel.

I’m not sure if I mentioned it yet, but Carrousel is kind of our parent company. Moreso that the main travel agent, Neal, is half-owner of The Honeymoon Registry. So we kind of have 2 offices in this building. A lot of resources are shared between the businesses too like the computer network and some servers.

The office is very quiet. It was only Brian, the summer intern, and I in the office for awhile and then Julie, who is the owner, Scott’s wife, came in to do some paperwork. There’s a new woman that’s taking over her job soon as I understand it though and she is going to focus more on the marketing aspects of the business. Everyone seems to be pretty quiet, so I just keep quiet too.
I couldn’t really do much on the computer as I wasn’t given a login until later in the day and up until about 20min before I was leaving I didn’t have the proper rights to get things installed that I needed. So, most of the day I spent just familiarizing myself with their website frontend and backend.

Today is day 2, and it’s been much more eventful. I have a key now so I can come in any time I want. I also have a working login, so I got right to getting a development environment set up. I even got to come in really late today because Scott is meeting with Brian and I to go over some things later tonight and we anticipated sticking around late.

Shockingly, I was also handed a check today for my 2 days work. I wasn’t expecting that, but hey, it’s money. I’m not going to state exactly how much, but I’ll just say it wasn’t much less than I’d make at Target in a full week. That just goes to show how little I was actually living on (and still am living on for a little bit).
I haven’t gotten to jump in and do any actual programming yet. I still am afraid there’s going to be a lot of learning to do before I really feel comfortable. Now I just need to finish setting up my tools, which I’m going to get to right now.