I "graduated" my training yesterday. I was released on my own and began taking my own calls this morning without having someone sitting next to me listening in on the call and providing cues as needed. I stopped after every call and had someone double check to make sure that I was doing it correctly, inputting the information correctly and such, but I was able to do so without my nerves taking over too much. I think it's because I'd been taking calls for the last week and a half and getting high scores on each call graded.

Starting Monday, I'll be at my own desk, and will be helping with the rush that normally comes with Monday. I'll probably be doing the same thing as I was today: stopping after each call and asking to make sure it's correctly formatted before continuing on to the next one. There will also be plenty of annoying calls, or confusing ones, that will require questions be asked before I even complete the call. Which is what they're expecting since I'm still very new. It can get quite complicated at times so they're expecting it to be at least a month, minimum, before I begin to even come close to the level of comfort and speed as the people who have been there for a few years. On average it takes a solid two to three months before you get comfortable enough to not need to ask questions every time. And even then, there's still questions.

I think the reason I'm having such a hard time convincing myself that this is actually a permanent change is because I'm still at the same place. I still have the exact same commute, though the travel times are different. I still park in the same place, walk the same hallways, and am in the same facility. After running in to my former senior security manager and telling him that I found a new job, it kind of sunk in then that I was no longer in the security department, but still. If I had been working even at one of the other campuses, it would have hit me a lot sooner because I would be in a different environment, with different people. I know it'll hit me eventually and suddenly I'll realize that my biorhythm has adjusted. Until then, however, I just keep going through the same roles. It will hit me eventually ... I hope.

No plans for the weekend. I am dog/cat/house sitting for some friends, but it's essentially just me staying the night tonight, then I'll be going home tomorrow to do my laundry and hang out for a bit. Then I'll be back up here tomorrow night and then pick them up from the airport Sunday morning. It's between paydays and I actually have enough food at home to get me through the entire whole of next week, which is a miracle in and of itself. So I have no plans to spend money this weekend.

Hopefully I get some rest this weekend. There's only ever been one place where I felt more at home than my own and this is certainly not it.

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