Drafts - Work training

     As the year/ decade gets closer to the end, a lot of people are doing a 10 year look-back, mostly on Facebook and with pictures, comparing where they are now to where they were in 2010. While I'm not particularly interested in how I've physically changed, I decided to look back through old drafts that I started but never posted. Here's one from when I started my current job, in 2014 (updated to current time).

     Let me preface this with the insight that I had a LOT of jobs when I was teens/20s. I worked various roles at a couple Renaissance Faires, did temping/ office work in a wide variety of fields and locations, drove a range of trucks from pickups to 18 wheelers, food service, IT, customer service... basically I wasn't 100% sure what I wanted to do, so I just tried everything. Most of those jobs were entry level/ low skill, so training was on-the-job if at all. Every single job, barring trucking, went like this at the beginning:

   Boss: Let me show you how to do it.

   Boss: Need me to show you again?
     Me: I think I'm good; can you watch me do it just to make sure it's right?
   Boss: You've got it! Get to work. 

             (leaves me to it)

     Me: Hey, sorry to bother you. I've finished that task. 

   Boss: What, already? Um... do this. (demonstrates another task)
     Me: Hey, me again, sorry. I'm done with that, too. 

   Boss: What, really? Ummmmm..... just... hang out for a bit. 

             (leaves to find something else for me to do)

     Me: (organize/clean whatever I can reasonably find until they return)

            (if they don't return - it's happened - ask someone else if I can help with anything)

     Many of the temp jobs I worked ended sooner than expected because of this, although a few of them did specifically request me for later projects, so I figure it evened out. Several jobs morphed into something substantially different than what I was technically hired for, once the boss(es) learned they could leave me to my own devices and I would keep going. My current job is one of those: I was technically hired as an assistant admin, but I'm frequently handed projects, research requests, and random, off-the-wall stuff that really don't fit in that job description. Definitely keeps things from being dull, though.