Work commences!

This week I finally began to work. I'd been looking forward to this ever since my position was confirmed. I will not disclose the company's name, but I will say that I'm working with a team that deals with a variety of corporate matters.

Yesterday was my very first day. I was surprisingly calm, maybe because I had visited them and introduced myself the week before. Sure I was nervous but I think the first time I took LSAT was worse. I took a bus from a nearby stop (about 10 min. walk from my apartment) to Gangnam Station which is roughly a Korean equivalent of Wall Street, along with Samsung Stn. The ride was about 40/50 min. long, and there I transferred to the subway. It took about an hour in total -- which isn't bad at all considering the overall traffic nightmare. It was a good thing that I had practiced coming to Gangnam on my own numerous times; otherwise I would have been a complete wreck.
(*Gangnam means "South of the (Han) River in Korean, and is one of the biggest financial and shopping centres of Seoul.)

My team was organizing a seminar and I was told that I would help one of the team leaders. Unfortunately I couldn't be of assistance in more intelligent matters, but I ran some simple errands and *gasp* manual labour. It was fine though; I would have screwed up anything else. My team was very nice and understanding of my inexperience and offered me a lot of advice and pointers.

Today lacked yesterday's burst of excitement because there wasn't any event going on. Instead I helped with the documentation and filing of responses/survey results to yesterday's seminar as well as attendance check-ins. It took me about two hours to finish all that and ever since I haven't had much to do.

I expected to be worked to death and so far I feel like I'm just hanging out in the office. There are occasional tasks but nothing major. I guess more will come eventually later on. I never thought I'd be impatient with getting more work! It's funny though that I should feel exhausted by the end of the day. Last night I went to sleep around 10. Me, going to bed at 10pm! Astounding, isn't it? I used to be such a night owl.

I think I would've enjoyed today even better had I not had GRE tomorrow. It's quite pointless, the whole thing. I don't even care to attend grad school. All this for the sake of having a good job... where GRE skills would not even be applicable.

So far I'm very content with how my work. It is way too early to tell whether this contentment will extend into the future, but for now I've decided to enjoy it. I'm relieved and glad; I haven't felt this in a long, long while.