1st day til Birthday

On my first day I showed up a bit early which was great. Right away I got to sit in on Good Morning IA which is what they call their Monday morning meetings where they catch up the office on things and projects going on. After that I went into an office to fill out paper work, and they tell me that this is the candy office and always has goodies for anyone who wants to stop by. Anyone who knows me knows how excited that got me! Next I found out that two temps were starting that day and all three of us would spend the majority of the day in a conference room for ADT training. At first I thought of the security company and was way confused. Luckily I waited to see what I was in for. Turns out the office is not using Revit yet and mainly use CAD. Sorry to the people who don't know what this means, but they are computer programs used for construction documents, and building in 3d and all that great stuff. Anyway ADT means Autocad Desktop...at least I'm pretty sure even though desktop is one word so technically it doesn't make sense. To me it seems like what would happen if cad and revit had a baby haha It is a much more standardized and organized way of using cad and I wish I could have used it on school projects.

At lunch I went with one of the temps Marija (love how she spells it) and Michelle to get some soup at this place that is all over the city. They sit on either side of me in the office and it turns out they went to grad school together. After lunch I still had training but once that was done I got settled in at my desk, made sure my profile was working and then got an office tour and was introduced to everyone. All the new names were overwhelming but luckily they gave me a floor plan of the office with each persons name written at the desk they work at. This has come in handy sooo many times. We only take up one floor, but i still felt lost trying to find a desk I hadn't been at before.

Over the next few days I learned the office might relocate soon or be renovated. Everyone hates the current layout, which is odd to have a not so functional layout in a design firm office. So it was my task to go into the plans and find solutions to moving walls, adding additional work spaces for growth, and having a completely different sort of reception area. 

I really enjoyed my first week, everyone at the office is extremely nice. It was really cool to get to work on a few different projects my first week that way I get to experience all the different types of work that has to be done in the sort amount of time that I will be here. My second Monday working was my 21st birthday so it was really strange to work all day. Marija and Michelle took me out to lunch, they are the sweetest! We went to an Irish Pub since I was craving fish and chips. Ooohhh they were delicious, and they gave me so much fish as well. The project I was helping with needed a lot done before a meeting the next day and I was helping render in photoshop. We were so busy that I almost had to stay late! Luckily I have to be approved for overtime and got to go home. I basically just crash when I get home which was fine by me since the night before we celebrated my birthday. I must say being gone working most of the day on my 21st sure did make me feel older and all grown up. Not sure if that is a good or bad thing, but hey as long as I get to end the day with cake I'm happy.