A new day, a new office, a new job

I moved offices today at work, because I happened to luck out and keep my job (or a job I should say... because my new job will be a cluster of somebody else's job and the other things that roll through the door.) I packed four boxes of my experience so far and hauled it one floor up to re-filed in an unfamiliar place, among unfamiliar people, in an unfamiliar role.

The walls now surround me are entirely bigger than I deserve and I'm just hopeful (and a bit scared) than my ideas are at some point worthy of filling them. There are some pretty good sized stains on the carpet though - so maybe it is more than I deserve, minus 2.

Every office/job move up until now came with more padding it feels like. It definitely came with more people I knew and surely it came at a happier time in the working world. Maybe that is normal in the average career progression, you trade more experience for less padding.

Everyone is also much more important than I am. Many levels above me. This makes me question if I should be wearing a suit to come across as more capable. The good news is however, that although my new neighbors are in the same building, they haven't really seen much of me before... and this makes it possible to break the normal rotation of corporate dress. I can repeat things I have worn in the recent past if it is the only thing I can come up with in the morning and they will never know.

And that takes the edge off of the start of my giant new undertaking that semi-begins tomorrow and that partly began back in October, with a slight pause of "What the hell is going on here?" in December.

And amidst the stumbling that this week might bring, I have to come up with something wonderfully understated for the first time for someone on this painfully confusing holiday weekend...more on that later.