Four weeks

2008-05-10 09:16:26 (ID 81)

It's been a month since my first day at the new job. What can I say? I love it still. The job consists of routine tasks where I do the same thing over and over again - as well as exciting new tasks where I am to do things I've never done before. Strange as I am, I enjoy both parts of that. So what do I get to do?

First thing in the morning I check the order list to see if there are any new orders since yesterday. If there are any (most likely there are) I forward the orders to the corresponding warehouse or pack the items myself. See, the company keeps their products in three different places; a warehouse in England, a warehouse in Germany, and a few items at our office. I also check my e-mail regularly, where I find messages from customers, co-workers and occasionally even magazines wanting to feature our products. During the day I also pick up all Swedish phone calls (got two co-workers picking up every UK phone call) mostly from customers.

Now, when I get some time over from doing the main tasks above, I do all kinds of different things. Sometimes I photograph new products using really neat photography toys like an expensive camera, two huge lamps, and a light box. Sometimes I spend the time trying to make a proper inventory of what we have in stock at the office, since the only inventory they had before I got there was inside the heads of the two ladies. Sometimes I re-pack returns to make sure they're good enough to be re-sold.

But most of the time I try to take care of the website I have been given. They have at least 10 web shops, and one of them has been given to me to take care of. There are so many coding errors in it that I really do have things to do. But besides upgrading the code, I also have to update the site with new products. New products means downloading huge source photos and editing them to be of proper sizes for use on a website. Hopefully I'll get to rewrite the entire website some day, but it's going to take quite some time to do it and they seem to have other plans for me. I'm not sure they realized what a code freak I am when they hired me.

The best part of the job is by far how everyone at the office has made me feel like an important part of the team. It feels like they've been wanting someone at my position for a really long time. Like I was the missing piece of the puzzle. And they're all so friendly. I thought of me to be shy, but I have no difficulties talking to these people.

One month done and two months to go, according to the current contract. I really hope the contract will be extended.

nilli