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cans

  • Joined May 2013
Thanks
« on: September 10, 2017, 08:27:31 pm »
Well I survived my first week at my new job.
It was scary at times,
Mind numbingly boringly repetitive at others.

I would like to thank all those who sent good wishes.
Your good vibes kept me going through the times when I thought "what the flaming heck made me think I could do this"

The scariest bit of all is I have no feelings at all about going back in tomorrow.
Is this normal?
Or have I just compartmentalised things for so long that I just do what needs to be done?

Anyway I just thought I'd say thank you

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: Thanks
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2017, 11:09:56 pm »
Well done for getting through it.

Penninehillbilly

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • West Yorks
Re: Thanks
« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2017, 01:07:17 pm »
Well done Cans, big upheaval . I have worked from home for 25yrs now, don't know if I dare go out even if anyone would employ me  :) .
But I am curious, what sort of job to be mind numbingly boring repetitive?

cans

  • Joined May 2013
Re: Thanks
« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2017, 07:58:25 am »
An update and a brief background
I have spent  3 1/2 years working in a luxury guest house as a general assistant doing every thing from cooking to deep cleaning toilets, (yes I do wash my hands before cooking!) except for the checking out as boss lady likes to keep control of the money!!!!! Plus I struggle with the blooming card machine, which I find hilarious as I am the one that my fellow volunteers come to when they have a problem with the fancy till/card machine in the RVS cafe!!
I have spent the last 5 1/2 years flexi learning EDCL/Advanced ECDL - see above comment of card machine!!! :roflanim:
Last month there arose an opportunity in the village for me to use my newly gained skills so I tentatively made an enquiry, was gobsmacked to get an interview, even more gobsmacked to get the job, albeit for the moment on a three month trial.   

I now work part time as a bookkeeper with a firm of accountants - and not as my dad says a bookies!
Scary because it is a lot of responsibility for something that I know nothing about, and I am getting a lot of different things to do  which are waaay above my ability,  I think they forget I have only been there 9 days!
Mind numbingly boring?  Lets say I am a whizz on the scanning!
But the time passes so quickly.
And there is no point in me hiding in the toilet as there is no way out other than the way in - no window to escape through  :roflanim:

Scarlet Dragon I still say 'thanks' for all your support, and I do try to help others where I can



cans

  • Joined May 2013
Re: Thanks
« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2017, 10:24:08 am »
You'll be absolutely fine; just take it one day at a time and don't be afraid to tell your line manager you're feeling out of your depth on some things if you need them to check what you've done is right before you continue!  They'll be pleased you trust them enough to do that and will also see how hard you're trying.  Trust me on this, I have someone just come into my team who has low self esteem and doesn't realise her own capability... as long as I allow her to check with me that what she's done is ok, she's having the confidence to take a few risks and do a bit more than she believes she can... and she's already growing into the job I want her to do as a result.

Scarlet Dragon some days I feel like all I do is ask 'Is this ok?' 'Am I doing this right?'
Except when I'm scanning!!!
I think I must be the oldest office junior anywhere  :roflanim:
I take lots of notes when getting shown something new, which sometimes I think they find frustrating.  But that's they been my learning style the last 5 years.
I do at times have the confidence to go that little bit further.
I have to keep reminding myself that I have only been there 9 days. And I do speak up and say that this is far too complicated for me.  So I do what I can, then some poor soul has to go through everything and do what I cant do.
Thankyou - that word again!- for the link.  It looks like something I can do and will help a lot. 

That's where this site is so helpful to so many people.  We all have smallholding ( although now I am an Allotmenteer rather than a Smallholder)  in our blood but also have a wealth of  knowledge which helps others. 

 

Penninehillbilly

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • West Yorks
Re: Thanks
« Reply #5 on: September 22, 2017, 11:27:09 am »
Sounds like an exciting challenge Cans, it's good to take on something new, keeps brain cells active :-). I was introduced to computers by my husband buying a setup and supplier just dumped it on kichen table, switched it on and left me with it, i was lost. But I've got all sorts of certificates since.
My job at home is husbands bookwork, and now mine for the farm business.  Been on bookkeeping courses, Accountants know so much more than little ole me, keep up the good work, lots of new things and skills to learn, great for the future ?.

cans

  • Joined May 2013
Re: Thanks
« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2017, 08:30:38 pm »
update:

Well I am nearly at the end of month 2 of my 3 month work trial.  Although I have only worked 24 days, being part time.
How am I doing?
Good question ....
I have had many tasks to do.  The scariest so far is the year ends.  I just cant get my head round setting up where they have to go.  My notes just don't make sense, so will need to be rewritten.
Once I get past this I am fine (she says!!)
It got really interesting at the end of September when the lady who was mentoring me one day a week fell at the end of her holiday.  She broke her left arm, fingers on her right hand, and cracked a few ribs  :o  This lovely patient lady is 70 years old.
The others who have been watching over me must be fed up with me always asking questions.
I now go through the paperwork, entering details where I can and have a huge pile of  "eeeek I cant do that..." which I go through when I have done what I can.  Then I ask the questions.
I have been close to tears several times, mostly frustration and sometimes because I just cant do it.
I have had the boss, another lovely lady, tell me it not my fault that I cant do it ( that's cos I am trying to do the clients that the lady who fell does, and it seems that only she knows those clients and what goes where)  Those days I am banging my head on the table!! 
It has been said in jest that if my mentor was able to sit in a chair comfortably she could come in and tell me what to do. 
Sometimes I don't think they are joking!

Scarlet.Dragon - I have started the course that you linked to.  I am finding it interesting but it is slow going, time being limited.

I am still working at the guest house, and lately seem to be working 6 days a week, and with the mother in law, various committees, brownies, royal voluntary service, and helping a friend with his chores no wonder I am knackered ::)


« Last Edit: October 26, 2017, 09:22:29 pm by cans »

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: Thanks
« Reply #7 on: October 26, 2017, 11:35:45 pm »
Goodness cans, I'm feeling tired just reading all that you are doing. I do admire anyone that takes on such a challenge and I'm sure that you are more than up to it. It's important that we know our limitations so that we can continue to learn.

cans

  • Joined May 2013
Re: Thanks. Update
« Reply #8 on: May 04, 2018, 06:24:25 pm »
I never made it to the end of my three month work trial with the accountant firm ...........
At the end of October/ beginning of November I started to feel overwhelmed at times with the work.  Nothing specific but just a general feeling of not coping, but I plodded on.  Then into November I came down with something, I felt absolutely awful, there were plenty of bugs going around and I knew it wasn’t flu I had.  I struggled to the remembrance service (am a brownie leader) staying away from people as much as possible.  I had to take the car as I didn’t have the energy to walk the short distance from the house to the service. Anyway I spoke to my boss there and said I wouldn’t be in the following week as I felt so ill.  Also during this time I had been having nightmares about ever increasing piles of work that I couldn’t do beacause I didn’t know how to process it.  During the week I was off things came to a head and I handed in my notice, much to the shock of my boss.  (At this point also I had to stop working at the guest house but I didn’t hand in my notice for that, fortunately it was a quiet time of year but just meant I had very little money coming in for the duration)
I had also come out in a mysterious rash which had the doctors stumped.  The next few weeks were horrendous, I had jaundice, kidney and liver problems, a different kind of rash of different parts of my body, my feet then my hands peeled. I had blood taken every week to check what ever it was they were checking. I lost my appetite.  If I ate a few mouthfuls I didn’t have room for fluids and vice versa.  I was sent to the dermatologist, who was also stumped, so skin samples were taken. Christmas came and went, my 95 year old mother in law ate more than I did !!!
Then at the beginning of January I had an ultra sound scan to see what was going with my innards.
Doing anything was tiring and I spend most of my time watching tv (what a load of ***** there is) I did force myself out for a walk round the block most days.
Then all hell broke loose.....
Instead of the results taking a week to ten days to get to the doctors they were sent that afternoon, but I had gone to deal with a problem with the mother in law.  Well the next afternoon the phone never stoped ringing. The dermatologist had found the problem....
I had taken a severe reaction to the medication I had been on for years (normally this kind of reaction occurs when staring a new medication) stop my medication immediately, then onto antibiotics, then steroids.
Turns out this reaction is very rare and in my case very unusual. 
Google D.R.E.S.S. Syndrome for all the gory details.
I did speak to my accountant ex boss and appologised for handing in my notice the way I did and that it hindsight it was the illness that was the problem and not the workload. I didn’t want any bad feeling there and thankfully there isn’t.
Guest house boss has been reasonably ok and had me on light duties till recently when all changed at work and my role has changed a bit.
Although I struggled on, and shovelled snow on several occasions! I really shouldn’t have done so much.  I didn’t realise just how long a recovery I have ahead of me.  Most of my time off is spent sleeping as I am so knackered after work, some days worse than others
I have only just this week been put onto new medication after numerous (and some unpleasant) tests to make sure my system can handle it.
I have to say that during all this time I have been very well looked after by 2 GPS at local surgery and all the specialists that I had been fast tracked to.
 
Well im sure I’ve bored you all rigid but I after all the support I’ve had from everyone here I though I better update everyone on the progress of the oldest office junior around!

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Thanks
« Reply #9 on: May 04, 2018, 07:17:52 pm »
Oft, what a nightmare.  :hug: :hug: :hug: from us and  :fc: :fc: :fc: :fc: that you're on the mend.

Rupert the bear

  • Joined Jun 2015
Re: Thanks
« Reply #10 on: May 04, 2018, 07:18:06 pm »
OMG !
well remember its look after No 1 first , its difficult I know  and dont be silly and rush back to work ( like I did  :-\ ) hopefully your accountant boss might give you a second go , mine did quite surprisingly  after crashing the truck when I passed out, 3 months with sepsis and no working knees ! So if an old biff like me can "get away with it" you can too .
Plenty of sleep and rest is the key

 :hug:
RTB

Steph Hen

  • Joined Jul 2013
  • Angus Scotland.
Re: Thanks
« Reply #11 on: May 04, 2018, 08:01:50 pm »
Oh my god how awful!

I heard of reactions to drugs on radio 4 a while ago, as I was reading your post I was thinking "this is like what that guy who was interviewed had..." Just awful! Wishing you a good, full recovery. Must have been so scary.

Do you have access to "box sets?" Regular TV is rubbish, but series like 'outlander'  :love: 'Vikings' or whatever floats your boat off 4 on demand, etc, pass the time well. I'm no advocate of sofa surfing, but if you need to rest and recover, then indulge. We have Amazon prime and I've enjoyed watching that at all hours when feeding my baby in the night.

Buttermilk

  • Joined Jul 2014
Re: Thanks
« Reply #12 on: May 04, 2018, 08:05:27 pm »
Your body needs time to recover.  At least you had proper symptoms and did not have to fight to get the medics to believe there was a problem.  People may knock the NHS but it is a godsend at times.

Now just take your time and get better.

cans

  • Joined May 2013
Re: Thanks
« Reply #13 on: May 04, 2018, 08:29:24 pm »
Thanks Rosemary, the on the mend road will be a long one!

RTB  looking after no 1 shouldn’t really have included shovelling snow, but that was before they found out what was wrong with me, plus nobody else in the flats, apart from hubby - and he spend days at work shovelling the stuff, could be bothered clearing the paths so it’s was a case of self preservation on that front,
I don’t have the concentration yet to even think about if they offered the job back, and the guest house work has changed as well in that one main member of staff left beginning of April and 4 new staff started since February so everything is aaaarrrgggghhhh at times ( I did blow up yesterday with boss, I’m surprised I wasn’t shown the door!). I’ve been waiting 4 years for the cafe at guest house to open, which is recently has.  I was supposed to be doing the baking but it is so quiet that the new chef is doing all that so I am mostly faffing about doing all the things that nobody realises needs done but notices when it’s not!  ::)


Steph Hen yes it was very scary at times, and that’s putting it mildly, especially when the doctors were sractching their heads as they hadn’t a clue what was wrong, but they were very attentive and determined to find out, thank goodness
We don’t have box sets of anything and if I’m honest I never saw a whole programme as I usually fell asleep

Buttermilk, lying on the doctors examination table with a high temp, yellow skin, swollen liver, purple swollen feet, and a pee specimin the colour of tar ............ and they are thinking of whisking me to hospital to get blood taken and a quick resultback. The look of fear on my face decided them otherwise and they took blood there and then and managed to catch the evening pickup.   The doctor even phoned me first thing the next morning to make sure I was ok


SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Thanks
« Reply #14 on: May 04, 2018, 09:02:29 pm »
Cripes.  Very glad they worked out what it was and wishing you the best recovery you can get :hug: :hug:
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

 

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