Currently in bed typing this up on the wordpress app on my iphone, and let me tell you, those poor condemned souls who operate this old steam-engine of a service don’t make it easy. But a commitment is a commitment, and I refuse to be stopped by anything other than my own cowardly lack of discipline.
Day started waaaay early. 6 am, champ. Yeah, that’s right, I’m better than you now. Ground up some coffee beans in a 40 year old wooden grinder that sounds like 20 pre-schoolers using their crank-shaft pencil sharpeners all at once, and sipped heartily as I heard my upstairs neighbor fuss about in distress moments afterward.
Then it was it. ~The first day~ of the new job.
The onboarding was pretty bog-standard so I’ll skip to the part where I found myself building my own desk and throwing darts directly into a plaster wall while 3 beers deep with coworkers whose names I was still forgetting even as I said them out loud (shout out to Constantin, Sebastian, Adrianna, Simon and Felix if you stumbled upon this) (could I come up with a more German list of names if I tried?)
In all seriousness, there was a dartboard on the wall, I just missed. And all shenanigans took place after working hours. Except, of course, the desk. I 100% spent time building my own workplace. It was not intentional on their part, I know that, I just hope they know how that looks.
Overall it really couldn’t have gone much better. Bonded with the co-CEO over wicked sick PC parts we would want in our dream rigs, and learned I get to choose the budgeted decoration over my desk. Me-thinks a giant framed poster of Enter The Void is incoming.
Oh yeah, the picture above is from my train ride down to the office. I’ll try to get one of the dartboard for the next post.
See you tomorrow, friends.
Nick
Nick Denardi 