Monday, December 5, 2011

The Chemist

As of today, I am no longer an unskilled laborer, but a chemist. I now perform tests on body fluids, looking for drugs, or at least I will once training is done. Last night was my last night at the airline, throwing bags and pushing planes. It was 12 degrees when I left, and it was snowing, not just cold. Today, I started my new job, which for a change was mentally taxing, not physically. I'm sure part of the stress is just the result of working a late night at one job, and then starting a new one in the morning, but the vast majority is trying to take so much in at once. I have a new building, new faces, new names (names are always hard), and the procedures we do are fairly complicated, although anything is going to seem complicated by comparision to the old job. I think I got a fair amount down for the first day. I'm familiar with most of the machines we use, even if it will take me a little while to get the programs down well, and I have the basic procedure down, although it does vary depending on the drug we're looking for and the fluid we're looking in, and there are plenty of specifics I just don't have down well enough yet. Still, within a couple of weeks, I ought to be a contributing member of the group, rather than a drag on those who know what they're doing, and they say in about a month I'll likely be apart from the group I trained with, doing it all on the third shift (graves).

8 comments:

MJ said...

My honey is AWESOME.

And my word verification is denesse. Who is Denise, and why is she your word verification????

Susie said...

WA HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Shinobi said...

Congratulations!

Berserk said...

Congrats!!

Samara said...

Um, Maku? Do you know that it's 2012? You still have posts on your first page here from before you graduated.

Chaelomen said...

What of it?

Samara said...

I'm just saying that important things have happened since you got a chemistry-related job. Which was 10 months ago.

MJ said...

He got a promotion, too. I guess he thinks I should be keeping everyone in the loop, and I'd stop blogging, if it didn't mean that NEITHER of us would be blogging...

Love you, honey.