I am working!

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Through a friend of my father (because it´s nearly impossible any other way) I got a good summer job and the past two weeks I´ve been working. A real job! I´ll get paid money for it! :D

The downside first: It takes me nearly two hours to get there. One way. Which means I get up at 5:20 am and come home between 7 and 8 pm, completely exhausted and also melting. I´m so glad it´s only for one month. And I´m really really glad Austrian trains have working air conditioning.

The good things: It´s interesting! Very much so. I´m working in the Accounting department of an investment bank, and only one year ago I wouldn´t have understood anything. But now, after one year of university, I understand things! I sometimes often know what people are talking about, and it´s fascinating. I could tell you so many crazy and funny stories about things I heard that happened in the bank and the bills I´ve booked if I hadn´t signed that confidentiality agreement. It´s a whole different mindset. And I got infected, too: the first day I came home and said "I spent sixty thousand euros today;" my record for the day is 159 thousand, though that included lots of assets someone else did (there are always two people going over one accounting entry, but in those assets I wasn´t involved. Thankfully - that was one long and complicated posting!)

The people there are nice, too. There´s one guy who occasionally spends lunch break explaining his new economic theory to me (it´s really quite interesting, but I think it´s illusional to think it could ever be implemented in reality.) There´s a girl who looks like 17 and is 29, who gave me a box of chocolate for lending her my accounting textbooks; a woman who always wears clothes in one colour and her friend with the colourful necklaces who apparently know everyone in the bank; and rumours say the head of Audit came to work last week in shorts and flip flops. Office dress code means I have to wear skirts again, which I like. (Mostly, as in when it´s not half five in the morning and I have to pick a matched blouse.)

I´m only a tiny bit worried because the woman mostly in charge of giving me work took her holiday and I really hope I won´t be sitting around doing nothing, but I think there´ll be enough to do. Another upside is that I have less time to spend online (though I do ruin the progress at the weekends); in August I´ll have to go three weeks without internet access. It´ll be hard, but I can do it! (I can use the time to study for the stupid accounting and management control exam I failed very narrowly... I´m sure my practical experience will at least be motivational.)

Comments

[diddilypuff.livejournal.com]

...There exist office dress codes that require you to wear skirts??

(Hurray for being employed!)

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Well, no, not exactly. But no jeans, and probably no shorts (I´m not sure), so all that´s left in my wardrobe for this weather are skirts.

:D

[serrende.livejournal.com]

Congrats on getting a job! It does sound like a rather nice place.

Three weeks does sound tough, but I'm sure you can do it! Just soak up as much content as you can. ^_^ (Maybe you could stock up on library books/comics for when you need to rest your brain.)

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I know I can do it! *victory sign* I just need to take a bag full of books. Possibly two. And NOT THINK about the things I´ll be missing. Maybe three bags... ;-)