My last day at work

On my way home from work I had an urge for pizza.

So I stopped at Mario's and got an eggplant and Sicilian slice. 

Now this was against my diet. But this morning I lost more weight than I expected and I'm down to 166.6. 

I think I took some Metformin but I'm not sure.

Yesterday was my last day at my job at my old department and I start my new job at my new department on Monday. It wasn't that sad to leave as most of the people weren't in the office because it was Friday. I moved my computer on the subway from Wall St. to Midtown and set it up myself.  I'm a little nervous because I left my new office at 6 PM and many people were still there, especially senior managers.  Also, my co-worker Olive seemed to imply we would be very busy next week. She was also wearing jeans and talking in Russian to someone. This is already a minor annoyance for co-workers to speak a foreign language in front of me. Makes me feel excluded.

The space at my desk is much smaller than I had for the last few years. 

One thing I'm a little worried about is losing access to my data and software as the company deletes and recreates accounts when you change your dept. 

While setting up my computer I started sweating due to the high temperature in the office. Luckily I also brought my fan which worked well to cool me down.  My neighbor to my right had her garbage can blocking my desk and has some of her stuff encroaching my desk. She's moving so I'm okay with it for now.

One thing I know is to set up a proper confirmation bias my first days at work.  There are many sayings that point this out "You only get one chance to make a first impression." I wrote about this in How to pass the drivers test were I discuss my "Jersey Driver" experience.

On the way in I made my first long Periscope video of my walk from Penn Station to Wall Street.

I decided to not go to  a Squeeze concert on Sunday night just so I could be fresh on the first day of the job.

I'm moving from the tech department to the users area

My dog just got me angry for the number of times she's wanted to go in and out of the house.

So for today some things for me to accomplish are:

1. Read and return overdue library books
1. Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg
2. Invisible Influence - Jonah Berger
3. TED talks: the official TED guide to public speaking - Chris Anderson
2. Clean up my desk, family room and bedroom
3. Lower my blood sugar
4. Prep for Monday, first day of my new job
5. Clean up the yard

I bought a pair of new shoes from Macy's for $28 original list price was $125. These shoes are killing my feet. I can barely wear them. 

I attended a phone meeting where I introduced myself and I feel I didn't do that good of a job. One of my key principles is Preparation  I should always be ready to introduce myself.

Since I'm new I should Practice what to do and say when being introduced.

I've stopped doing a number of things at my old job that I especially don't want to do at the new job just because of the confirmation bias it sets:

• Making/Cleaning up after making Bullet Proof Coffee
• Wearing sneakers to the office
• Wearing headphones to block out a noisy office.
• Leaving too early

One thing I noticed in contrast to my first day 9 years ago was that I understood most of what people were talking about. I remember sitting in a meeting and thinking WTF are they talking about. I have to be careful because there's a limit to when a new person can ask a stupid question.  Also there's a fine line between a good question and a bad question.

In my first meeting I think I said too much shit. It didn't come out right and may have sounded critical.

One thing is a new person sees shit that no one else can see.  When you're new to a situation the bad process is very easy to spot. But after years of participating in the bad process you can become blind to it.

Something I need to do is introduce myself to senior managers who sit right near me.

So I'm on an adventure. I've stepped outside my comfort zone, and will have some excitement back at work which after 9 years became too habitual.  I'm going to try to reserve judgement as long as I can and try not to make the same mistakes I've made before.  Shyness doesn't get you ahead.