Hey friend,
I started my new job this week. I had a walk-in interview on Saturday, and boy, was I grilled for an hour. The person interviewing me is a senior architect, and he later called in a very much experienced civil engineer to get my understanding of the engineering aspects architecture. WIth my portfolio in front of him, he scrutinized every thing on my resume and my projects. He was asking me questions which no other interviewer asked me. Why do I have my wall like this? Why is my hotel not built this way? What grade did I get on this project? Where is your transcript to prove it? Goodness, I was initially getting frustrated, but quickly realized that my interviewer was deliberately being tough with me to see how much I could handle. Once I realized that, I became cool and started answering all his questions with ease.
Well guess what? I got the job right there and then. I started the same day of the interview. Today has been a complete week. It has been a very exhausting experience for me so far. I start my work at 8am, all the way through 7-730pm. I have one 30 mins lunch break. Otherwise, there is just so much work to be done, I wonder where the time flies by when it's time to leave.
The most annoying thing however is the two hours I spend in the traffic to get to work. I have to get up at five am, when it is still dark, and get ready. I leave home by 6am, and then take a taxi or te public transport bus. I sleep on my ride over. Two whole hours is pretty much a waste of my time, and seeing that I will be diong this five times a week, I need to figure out what else I could do in those two hours. In the evening, the rush hour traffic is bad. But not as bad as the morning rush hour.
So, I have Thursdays and Fridays off. I am so excited about that. I have a meeting with a client next week, for whom I have deisgned the entire layout of his new 2 storey office complex. I am excited, but anxious too. I hope it works out.
Anyways, I am off now to go to sleep.
Mansur
4 comments:
Congratulations on ure new job...may Allah grant u success and happiness...
one solution would be to move to dubai...probably the only solution although a difficult one....
take care
H.A
Congratulations Mansur. Those are long hours though - and thats without the time for commuting to your office.
Hope everything works out well.
I am thinking of moving to Dubai because I always end up there on weekends, or evern if its a weekday, I end up in Dubai, since there is so much more happening. Sharjah is perfect if you have a family and kids and all, but Dubai is where the singles are! Who knows, maybe I do end up moving there eventually. I am currently looking for a suitable place in dubai.
My work hours are indeed long, but when I know there is so much work to do, I wish I had more hours to complete them. When you are so engrossed in your work you dont realize how much time has passed by. We are a new company, just starting up, with a team of five people, excluding me and the three senior bosses!
Lot of fun, great learning experience and a job I am having fun in.
Mansur
Those are long hours, even by American standards. Congratulations on the job. Two hours is a long commute, I don't know how you deal with it.
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