So today will mark the end of my first week at work post college in the field I want as my career. I’m at the same place I had two internships and worked part time at before graduation, so there’s no huge adjustment. In fact, very few people know that I was just a lowly college student before and am now in the pool of benefit gathering, salaried employees.
It’s been a good week though. I was given time to adjust to a completely different computer (love the Chuck Norris quote widget I installed). On my third day, I started more training on DVD Studio Pro. This is a piece of proprietary software for DVD creation.
In terms of coolness factor for someone that does commercial graphics and production, it’s right up there behind the two Adobe staples for me (Photoshop and Illustrator). I took 90 or so images from the wedding and made a fully functional DVD with a menu in about an hour. On my first try.
But I do linger on part of a Primus song today… “Funny thing about weekends when you’re unemployed… They don’t mean quite so much.” I’ve worked much more strenuous jobs (physically and mentally), but I am going to value this weekend more than most in the past year or so…