Material Girl Part Two

It's been two weeks since I started working and I still enjoy it quite much. By now I have gained some more responsibilities and noticed the lesser aspects of both my job and it's environment. The novelty of it all has worn off and now I am able to see that of course not all is as perfect as my first impression was a week ago, but that doesn't mean it's all bad now. After some more time I just got to see some more of the boring sides of my work and also the more meaner sides of some people. Not that I dislike any colleagues or so, I just noticed that there is a lot of gossiping going on. Some of you know me pretty well and know I very much enjoy gossip, but I prefer to think of this as positive information exchange. However, the things I heard talking about were quite more negative, which unfortunately is relatively natural at a place where many different personalities work. Anyway, it's part of life and of course it's not nice, but something I would see everywhere eventually.

This week I got to do my first preadvise for an airfreight. A preadvise means entering information into a computersystem and sending it afterwards to the correct people so they are informed about where certain good will have to be picked up, what their dimensions are, where they are being transported to and who has to take care of them. It's harder than sea transport, which I normally have to take care of, mainly because the information has to be completely correct. A ship is larger than an airplane, so then it doesn't matter when the pallet you preadvise is two meters higher than what you wrongfully entered into the system. :P One of my colleagues managed to let an airplane fly all for nothing from the US to Europe, so I was glad to notice that I haven't pulled something like that during my first weeks. ;)

I called this post part two of my material girliness due to my shopping over the past few weeks. The realization that I now have money to spend has been quite interesting so spending is what I did. I didn't exaggerate of course, but it was nice to be able to buy some clothes that I needed without having to feel really guilty about the cost. So I bought some trousers, shirts, a nice winter coat and today another pair of boots. :) Shoes are necessary for women, and preferably several pairs of them. I am of course not planning to go shopping each week from now on, as I think the time has come for me to buy a laptop. These days they don't have to be so expensive anymore, so as long as I can do the basic stuff on it, I will be pleased with it. But that will have to wait some more months, first save some money and spend some in Finland and Sweden. :)