reinventjen

I’ve been at my new job for a little over a month now. It’s amazing how time flies, and how quickly you can become acclimated to a new environment. It truly is hard to believe I’ve ONLY worked here a month. I feel like I’ve been here much longer than that.

A few reasons why I know I’m still new:

• I only get a few emails every day
• I still don’t have my insurance cards
• I don’t have business cards yet
• My phone hardly ever rings

While you may learn your job, get up to speed on the issues, and actually complete some deliverables, it seems to take much longer to build your network up again. When you’ve worked for a company for a while, you get to know people – people who can get things done. And there’s some kind of give and take that happens. I help you, you help me. The better helper I become, the more help I can receive.

When you first begin working at a new company, you no longer have your network of “helpers” to call upon. And it takes time to build that network. When you have a network, your phone rings a lot and you receive a lot of emails. So I guess that’s how I know I’m still new around here.