Kirstie's job log: 18
Kirstie Nicols works in sales while hoping to become a journalist. Work break So that’s it; I’ve worked my last day at the company I’ve been with nearly a year (well almost, but more on that in a minute). I’ve packed up my desk, taken down all my pictures, and deleted emails off my computer I don’t want anyone to see. I seem to have gained an amazing amount of junk for one small desk in such a short amount of time; I even found a sombrero hat from one of our work nights-out tucked down in the back of my drawers.
It’s very strange to think that, come Monday, I won’t be there but the business will continue to run. It’s nice to think that you are invaluable to a company and once you are gone, everyone will miss you and realise how much they needed you to keep everything going; but I’m pretty certain that in a couple of months I will be largely forgotten and the company will have moved on. There shouldn’t be too many problems to deal with, as I had a last minute rush of conscientiousness and made sure any loose ends I could knot were knotted, so I won’t even be remembered fondly as the one who caused more problems by leaving than by being there. In my shoesI hate to say it, but the girl I’ve been training up to take over is very good; it seems like she has picked it up a lot quicker than I ever did. The only problem is that she is very quiet and very polite, and until she starts shouting down the sales team (who seem to think that the only way to speak is so that people in offices across the road can hear them), she’s going to be pretty much ignored, and it’s no fun being ignored in a new job. However, she’s so good that this week it got to the point whereby she was reminding me to do things, which went down really well with the guys at work and gave them something to laugh about for the rest of my time there. I hope that’s not the last memory they’ll have of me; as the girl who was so bad her job was done better by someone who’d only been there two weeks! Now I have two weeks of holiday stretching out in front of me, before I start my new job. I suppose I should start thinking about what it’ll be like, how long it will take for me to get there in the morning and what kind of impression I want to give on my first day; but I’m finding that really hard when I have a week in the sunshine to plan for. I really would like to be prepared for my first day in a new office with new people, but it just doesn’t seem real yet. I think I’m probably going to wait till I come back from holiday and the panic sets in before I start to think about worrying about it. Anyway, who really wants to think about work when they’re away lying on a beach in the sunshine? Weekend, job endsI was talking about my holiday during my last week at work, and I must have said something about how I’ll be a bit strapped for cash, being as I won't be paid for two weeks. Being the kind and helpful colleagues that they are, it was obviously suggested that I cover the Saturday shift in order to have a little bit of extra spending money to take with me; and although I don’t remember this conversation, I must have agreed to the idea. That is why my last official day at work will be spent sitting in the office from some ridiculous time in the morning on a Saturday, and more importantly, on my own. So there are just a couple of weeks left until I start my new job, and at the moment I’m really looking forward to it; but I’m sure that by the next time I write, I’ll be feeling a lot less laid back and a lot more panicky. Of course, that doesn’t mean I won’t be making the most of my time off too. I plan to spend some of my time over the next two weeks working on an article you’ll be able to read in the Prospects magazine, which looks like it's going to be a bit of a challenge, but quite fun to tackle as well. So thanks to Prospects for the opportunity, and look out for my name in print in the coming issues! Read Kirstie's previous blogs
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