I’m back on the job again.

How sweet those words sound: “Back on the job.” The “again” part? Not so sweet, since it implies (correctly) a period of not being on the job, but sweet enough since it implies (again, correctly) that the period of being off the job is over. Point being that I’m working again. Which is pretty sweet.

I’m blogging from work right now, in fact. The whole New Hire training thing is sort of the rocks right now, seeing as how the previous Training Manager pitched a hissy fit and quit, and the people who are available to train me aren’t very available this week. So there’s been a lot of “here’s how you log into this piece of software, go play with it for awhile and teach yourself a few things until Thursday when Bob will be here and can help you.” And I’m fine with that, since that’s how I learn best anyway. Plus which, it fits right into my plan of impressing the hell out of them so they’ll promote me into the Training Manager position, seeing as how it’s suddenly available and I’m the only trainer they have handy at the moment.

So far, I like it here. It’s a very, very small shop — only about 25 employees — and everyone seems nice so far. The atmosphere is intensely casual, if that makes any sense — people are very laid back, but very intent about what they’re doing. There’s a good energy in the air, and the CEO has already pronounced me his new best friend since I make a pot of coffee as soon as I walk in the door in the morning.

The software product this company does is really impressive. I’m not going to go into exactly what it does, instead I’ll just say that I can’t see how any potential client could possibly say no to it. Plus which, it seems to actually work, which is a lot more than you can say about my old job’s product.

Other things I like:

• The spanky Mac G4 laptop I’m blogging on right now
• Two-finger scrolling on the Mac touchpad
• The 25-minute commute
• Skylights in the office
• Cheaper health insurance than from Beth’s job
• Having a paycheck again
• There’s a piercing and tattoo shop right around the corner

Things my mom likes:

• The new job is 10 minutes away from her house, so now I can go have lunch with her like I did today.

Things I don’t like:

• This Mac has no backspace key. WTF is up with that?
• The Apple key on my Mac. WTF is there a control key that doesn’t do control key functions? WTF do I have to use that stupid Apple key? Apple-Z to undo instead of Ctrl-Z when there’s a friggin’ Control key is making my head hurt.

All things considered, I have to give this job two big thumbs up. Woo!