NEW HIRE
When my recruiter, Susanna K., dropped the news that I got the offer, I uncharacteristically gave a literal whoop of joy.
Those long weeks of studying for interviews, staying home on Friday nights to study (not that I had any plans anyways, let’s be real) had finally paid off.
I quickly recovered, playing hard to get and uninterested so I could leverage my other offers for better compensation. But I knew then and there that I’d take the offer and start a new chapter of my life.
If every New Years is a season to revamp your life and set new goals, being a NEW HIRE is the professional version of that.
You forget about the heartbreaks and disappointments of your last job and convince yourself that everything will be better at the new one.
It’s a sudden break from the norm. A shifting of worlds. A period of life when anything seems possible.
But then you settle back into your old ways. The new job eventually becomes old. You fall into the same patterns, reach the same dead ends and sometimes even wonder why you left your old job in the first place—the new one seems almost exactly the same.
Every so often though, you wake up one morning and everything feels fresh again. You see work through the eyes of a NEW HIRE and your work feels bright once more.