teiresias | First day of work.

I know that this is based entirely on one day's experience, but so far? I love my new job.

First off, it's cool purely for the chance to spend a lot of time with my uncle, who's from my dad's side of the family and thus someone I rarely see. My dad also freely admits that said uncle was and is the smartest of all six siblings, at least in terms of reasoning ability, and I believe it; I feel like I've learned more today than I have in the past four months. I now know at least the basic functions of some fairly sophisticated electronic measuring devices, as well as the names of about fifteen different kinds of rods, stakes, spikes and associated miscellanea.

Today was about evenly split between office orientation and actual fieldwork, and

zanthraxis, I can see why you love this stuff so much, because it felt great to be both outdoors moving around and exercising my brain at the same time. Of course, today was also clear and cool with scattered clouds, so I'm well aware that when it's cold and rainy and windy I'll probably be loving the fieldwork a lot less-- to say nothing of my commute-- but I've come to the conclusion that, no matter how inclement the weather, this job beats out any data-entry slave work I could get anywhere else, which is about all that's open to me in the corporate world.

Must buy uncle really, really nice Xmas present.

Plus, my working days are totally flexible-- I'm starting off doing three days a week for now, though I was told that there's enough to be done that I could go straight to five if I so desire. I want to see about bartending school and/or that editorial internship first, though. Regardless of how I eventually divide my time, I'm being paid well enough that I should be able to move out by February/March. That is SUCH a relief, I can't even tell you. I miss the independence I had in NY like crazy.