The First Week

Everyone ask…. How’s the job going? How do you like Savannah? How do you like the people you work with? Its okay I would ask the same thing…..truth is it is too early to tell. The Job…as far as the company goes…well it seems to be a very good, very professional, and above board company; the job I will be doing? Too early to tell, I don’t know exactly what I will do or how I will fit in; time will tell.

Savannah is an old town with a lot of history; the Spanish moss drips from the trees like a shawl covering the shoulders of the old southern lady she is. A wonderful place to visit; but do I want to live here? Once again, time will tell. It is a big city with a lot of traffic, people, noise and smells. It has its good neighborhoods and it’s bad ones…..in short, it is another big city with a diversity of things to offer both good and bad.

The people I work with? Well it’s kind of like a honeymoon. Everyone looks good with their clothes on and when the lights are out, but the next morning and the years to come will they still look good and still whisper sweet nothings in your ear? Time will tell? You got it. So far everyone is nice. But I’m hard to get to know and people read my face and make judgments before they get to know me….I have that kind of face. I was in the bathroom behind the stall when I heard a few people come in. They started talking. “How do you like the new guy?”one asked….. The other person answered (someone I had been training with); well he seems to know pattern work…… I felt a but coming, so I stopped them and announced my presents by joking. “Hey guys I'm in here; don’t talk about me to bad”. You could have heard a pin dropped……I broke the silence; “it’s okay guys I did not mean to make you feel bad; I just wanted to let you know I was in here”. They laugh a little and afterwards we talked for awhile. I hope I handled it okay. You see the people you work with more than anyone, you will see the good and the bad in each other. You just have to do the best you can to get along. I found praying a lot about it has gotten me by most of the time. If you pray about it; God will show you the people around you are going through the same struggles and problems you are…..their just people after all.

That's my first week in a nut shell……help me, I’m in a nut shell….how do I get out of this nut shell? Truth is, it is taking all the strength I can muster to stay in this nut shell…..I would rather be home......