that was a sad October

Total of 4 entries for October versus 13 in September - I hang my head in shame...

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One year ago today I stepped into the tall walls of my cubicle and started the joy ride that is work as an internal auditor at a major bank. One year ago, I just moved out from the parents' place, ready to start my life at a new city, with a new job, with a fiancé (well, we know how that part turned out, eh...).

The week I came in was actually a vacation week and the office was empty, quiet and quite boring. It wasn't before long that the cubicles quickly filled up with some of the most peculiar personalities over the course of the next couple of weeks as coworkers came back from their vacations. My neighbour who really should have become a Hollywood script-writer, a walking-wikipedia, a man-that-never-gets-old, and some of the best deal-catchers and dirtiest potty-mouths out there. Of course, I fit right in...

After a brief stint in Amsterdam involving some of us getting lost, being late, and much (in hindsight) hilarities, everything seems to have not changed as it revolved around daily morning coffee / breakfast runs, calling and being bitched at by clients, running endless excel spreadsheets and, to keep us entertained, lotto and office gossips and your occasional pool.

Was it a life changing experience?

On a microscopic level probably not. Day-to-day basis, what I do pretty much remained boring and uninteresting to the general public out there. But for the majority of the year, I was able to have the work-life balance that was promised to me, which means a lot has been going on outside of work. If I look at what my life has gone through in the last couple of months, it has taken courses I've never imagined it would - however, this is nothing to do with work --- well, maybe a little and probably the best part of this whole experience --- so we'll talk about it during my 2009 reminiscence...

So, what's next?

I kind of just don't know. Things were much, much simpler at school - my goal, every year, was to pass every class and get to the next level. Then I had grad school, professional designation to get, and then, trying to get out of public accounting was pretty negatively motivating as a goal, as well. So what happens after all this, and when everything is really just passable now? I'm taking painting classes with very little success - I guess MLEP still applies here. I can paint like crap and I would still survive, ergo, all the artistic creations are pretty half-assed. I think this attitude could be extrapolated very well in other hobbies as well... Kinda makes you wonder if it is why some people get married and have kids? Because they're "at that stage"? Hmmmm. I'll stick to the half-assed hobbies....