Today is the first day at my job. My first real, professional job, in the career that I have chosen for my life. I am officially no longer a student. I am a professional.
I kinda miss being a student. Or maybe I miss the life of a student? Or maybe I just miss Bloomington? I miss the odd schedule, the backpack, the totally grubby-casual luck. But I don't miss the lack of health insurance, the papers I had to write, the knowledge that I was accumulating an assload of student loans.
So here I am. A not-student. A professional. Funny how it kinda feels like the first day of school--I am taking pains to look extra nice. I am anxious. I wish I had a Hello Kitty Lunchbox, or a cool backpack. Or something. But I am not as anxious as I have been--yesterday I went to the local library (not the one at which I work) to get a card, and as I stood in line, I watched the librarian give the woman in front of me really crappy reference services for a very easy inquiry. And the whole time, I was going through my head what I would have done. It made me feel a tiny, tiny bit better.
And so to work. So to life.
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