workday Day 3

Work, right now, is as interesting as watching white paint dry.. why white?  At least with a vibrant color it might change a bit and you can watch for those subtle changes... white is just white and let's face it watching paint dry is not a productive way to enjoy your day now is it?  I can answer that... NO!

Now I will say Tuesday was entertaining, I went into work for 2 hours - then drove 3 minutes to my company's HQ to spend the day at Mentor training.  Now they told the mentors who had done this before no need to show up before lunch - and yet didn't have have several exercises where they encouraged you to talk to your mentor... mine wasn't there so I played with my phone, mad and ticked off...

Then she showed up - and it was better.  I'm still not 100% sure about this but it certainly can't hurt.  The one thing I see disappearing are my nice easy 8 hour days; she wants me to get on proposal work, those people work long hours and weekends - my poor puppies oh yeah and Bubba will have to get his fanny home every now and again.  We shall see -- or I could retire in place at (insert my age here) and get a lot of reading done... and no - I would be contemplating belly button lint for the 10th day in a row then I would go find a spoon and attempt some sort of personal harry-carry... no thank you.

After my last job, right now, things are good, and that is good but I don't particularly care for several days in a row of nothing to do... especially today as it promises to be a long day due to carpool arrangements and my agreeing to wait....   I'm debating going to a long meeting just to have something interesting to do but then again I would be away from my computer and that would suck...so I think I might just stay here... I have Internet, news TV and maybe some internal web surfing for something interesting... we shall see.

On the home front, Bubba got home at 10:40 last night - me and the pups were in bed SOUND asleep of course lights, bed movement and I mumble something I hope sounded like" hi, how was dinner?" and frankly I don't remember if he gave an answer...these hours are killing me... however, on the up side, I get home early (except for tonight) and I can go get things done and the dogs are fine, and maybe having a shorter day.

So.. I have to tell you all about this mentor business, I was selected out of 500 applicants to participate in this program.  Groovy - a work friend said it's all about getting to know people and that was all it was about the whole program... fine with me as with this new job I have completely cut myself off from my network...which in hindsight might be a good thing.  :-D   As I told Mentor-lady I may not be a problem but I can sometimes be a problem child.   But I try hard not to-- really!  STOP LAUGHING.

ahem.  ANY way I have several goals we agreed to start working and I've got a plan to work on line and then we're meeting again in a few weeks to discuss my plan and make adjustments-- we'll see how this goes.  Keeping an open mind.

We spent most of the morning talking about our DISC assessment or what personality box do you fit into... most of which I don't really get about me... OK well parts of it.. according to this assessment when I am stressed I am perceived as aloof, hesitant, inflexible while when SERIOUSLY stressed I am possessive, stubborn and insensitive.   Seriously?  Frankly I think I'm a crazy person under stress hardly cold and undemonstrative - read this blog is that mellow?  Hardly.  Of course there is then my "adapted" style which is how we change our personalities to fit into our working situations... apparently my inner people person comes out... I have to talk to people at work - more so in this role than previous ones... so yeah - still not going to "hug it out"  NOT happening. .. and there is that undemonstrative side... my low numbers in the area called compliance, which means I'm stubborn and opinionated... NO!  Really? Moi?  Opinionated?  I have no idea where that came from... OK still not funny....

So having my personality ripped apart and then I was matched with a mentor who is basically the polar opposite of me... should prove to be interesting.   Now I'm off to create my plan ... where do I see myself in 3-5 years... right now... Older.

Happy Thursday.