I graduated from college in May and am about to embark on my second “real job” on Monday. My first job really didn’t work out so well, in that the company kind of imploded. I guess sometimes that happens to start-ups, and unfortunately it happened to the company I worked for right after I got in the door. Not particularly fun, but a good learning experience. I am very glad that it was a learning experience that only lasted 2 months.

So now I’m starting a new job in the same line of work but with a much bigger and more established company. And I’m definitely excited. But I feel even more nervous this time around, which seems slightly ironic because I know that I can handle first days after last time. But last time it was my first job out of college, and so I felt okay not really knowing what I was doing or expected to be doing on the first day. But since this is not technically my first job on Monday, I feel like I’m expected to be a little bit older and wiser; somehow that does not seem to be the case. Oh, I’m wiser about many things, but my intuition is that the things I am wiser about are the things I dealt with on a day-to-day basis at work before, which are things that should and probably will not occur in any other environment.

Basically, I’m still at square one. Hopefully my new job is kind of like the Sound of Music and likes to start at the very beginning. Because that’s a very good place to start.