Still Employed!

Greetings,

I have completed 2 weeks with the new company. There is a LOT to learn and there is a lot of business. I am the new kid on the block, but it is amazing that MANY of the people that work near me have been there a year or less.

They all speak the acronyms of the employee benefits world (LTD, STD, LOA, QMSCO, etc). These are all things I need to learn. However, I do understand databases, and this is a business that is rich in databases. Already I have demonstrated the ability to remap a data stream and import data, and I was tasked with creating a couple of simple queries that needed to be done for a some analysis.

One of my coworkers has been there about 8 months. He, like me, was laid off from an IT job, then came to work for this company. He does pretty well after 8 months and thinks it will take a year or more to be pretty proficient in the company. And he knew nothing about the benefits world either.

Got my first pay check on Friday (auto deposit). Sure, it is lower than what I was making, but is MUCH better than unemployment. I think I can even put money away like before, though not as much per payday.