Know Your Role
Last Monday, I found out what my official role with the company for the next few years will be. I will be the new Projects Engineer, which is in the Technical Services group as opposed to the Manufacturing group. Because of this, the Projects role is luckily enough a first shift role, so I don’t have to go a few years working the night shift. Not that I wont respect that, because I will probably have to work many nights and weekends, but thats not as bad as it sounds. I think the first project they’re putting me in charge is a $250,000 one, but I’m not sure, who knows. I start Monday. With any luck, I wont have a project going on during homecoming weekend, and I’ll get to hang out in the Haute with all my friends. Plus, this way I get to actually use my degree from that engineering school that I went to. I already forgot its name. Something-Hulman Institute of Technology, I think. There was an acronym that went along with that.
So I’ve been working for about 9 weeks now, and I’m just now finishing training? Wow. Its been almost like going back to school. Every day, we learned a new aspect of the business. We know everything about the supply chain from the potatoes coming into the plant all the way to the bags getting put on the shelves at the store. Its eye-opening.
Life is nothing but a continuous learning experience. I don’t think a day has gone by in my life where I haven’t learned something, no matter how insignificant. I went through pre-school, grade school, high school, college. I’m a graduate now, and I’m still learning. If I go back and get my MBA, thats probably some more learning I’ll have to do. And I’ll be learning right up to the day I retire. And then I’ll have to learn how to be retired. Its a good experience though, and finally I’m at the point in my life where I am being paid to do the learning as opposed to being the one paying. I think I will love my job, and I’m glad to have it.
