The Only Thing Certain is Change....

So, today I finished up in out of home care and shifted desks across to the other side of the office to start the "pointy" stuff - another ending, another beginning. As usual its always the unknown that distresses me the most - not knowing what its going to be like, not knowing how my job is going to change. This afternoon was kinda awkward - I was shifting my stuff over into my new pod, and everyone was so quiet.....it was really weird. I'm used to quiet offices, because there's usually hardly anyone around our side, but that's because of a lack of ppl - in this instance it was just everyone absorbed in their own thing.

I'm expecting several things out of this new team:

a) my new manager is the complete opposite to my old one - she's very business like, very professional and VERY much the straight shooter. There's no mucking around and no empathy. She's nice enough but very hard - nosed and not at all nurturing like my old manager.
b) there's quite a few guys in my team, in fact I think there's more guys than girls in my team. Thats unusual for where I work! As such I don't anticipate there will be much small talk, if any. It will change the whole dynamic of what I do at work because it will be much more "work" focused. Not sure if this is necessarily all bad though.
c) its going to be a LOT of hard work - I am fully expecting overflowing days and plenty of frantic work. Lots of supervising contacts, lots of transports, and regular critical response. It's full on, certainly not for the faint of heart, and I'm really nervous about how I'm gonna go with that. I'm not sure why I'm so unsure about this - I keep reminding myself that I have experience, but I have experience with different work than this. This is a lot more full on and I'm pretty terrified!

This move has driven home one thing to me - it's definitely time to pull my socks up! Work will be work, and home will be home - there will be very little if any cross over. I'm glad about that, because my home life is SO good right now :) Our house is getting those little personal touches we wanted and I'm carving out a nice little world here. It's time to work to live, not live to work!

In prep for the weeks ahead Im doing a clean out this weekend - my walk in wardrobe has become a walk in hazard, so I'm cleaning it out and I'm going to clean out the linen cupboard too. I'm going to get all my washing up to date, get started on my next assignment, have drinks with friends and go to church on Sunday. I'm going to plan my lunches for the week and do a decent grocery shop, and i'm going to make sure that I'm prepared for the change of pace.

It's what I've studied for and worked for all these months, and I've been whinging that I want back in the game. I just REALLY hope I don't disgrace myself!!!!!!