Today is my first Real day at work. I have been a temp until today. I have all my paperwork signed and am officially a Real employee. This also means I don’t get paid for three weeks (instead of weekly) due to payroll cutoff.

I am very tickled to be here. It feels like I have something to offer and they like what I have to offer. When I asked my boss (who is also the owner of the company) what I could get away with if I were to dye my hair, she asked me what I was thinking of. I showed her my series of driver licenses and told her that my current one expires in Nov. Her reply was that it was imperative that I do something wild to my hair for this new license. I have had responses similar to this but never from someone that had authority over me.

While the bulk of the work is in Word making simple text changes (boring, tedious, and take a long time), I have gotten to make a cool looking Newsletter layout, design ppt templates, design report covers in Photoshop and Illustrator, work on logos, and develop consistent guidelines for our templates and processes. This is the sort of thing I like doing.

Their are four of us in the pubs dept and we seem to work well as a team. We talk a lot and bounce things back and forth. They even like my endless questions. They find this valuable because it improves the product and keeps everyone on the same page.

This seems like a very good place for me. I haven’t even had a problem with the heat in this old San Francisco building. That was the one thing that worried me.