I'm in the office all week for a mini conference with my group. We're going over all the new features in the latest version of the product and some in-depth meetings on some of the major functions. There's some cool new stuff in the new program and a lot of the problems in the last version have been taken care of.

That's nice and all, but there are times when I feel like I don't know what's going on.

See, you might recall that X-Company got bought out last year (after buying out my original X-Systems) so along with a ton of new faces to meet and company procedures to learn, I also had to learn a new product. I had some training when I was in Vegas at the beginning of the year, but a lot of my training was to come after that. Things just didn't work out because I had a lot of work to do with the old X-Company stuff (and some X-Systems stuff) and I didn't have the time to go out and go to an actual training class. Then I couldn't travel anymore so going to class in another city was out of the question.

So now I'm here. Most of my colleagues from X-Company that have come over and have gotten up to speed on the program, they're even going out and doing assignments. Me? I'm trying to see how much training I can do within our internal site and through the class training manuals. I feel so behind. Tons of different company procedures started while I was gone, too, so I've got to make sure that I'm going through all the red tape the right way. Thankfully we've got our conference in Chicago and there are other people in my group that I can ask questions of who are more than happy to help me.

It's a bit frustrating, especially when I don't want to put in the amount of extra hours (aka work=life) that I used to because I want to come home so badly to my little guy. But there are hurdles I need to eventually get over, to ensure my place in the company so I will be able to support my little bubblytoes.

I'm stressed!

Posted by Yano at July 25, 2006 09:36 AM

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