Well, I survived the first week. I spent the week setting up all of my HR stuff, which was 100% done electronically. My supervisor even verified my I-9 paperwork electronically. Once all of that was done, I started in on about 25 hours worth of CBT’s (computer based trainings) which had me learn about the history of the company, as well as the ethics and integrity of the company, and just about everything else down to a CBT on ergonomics.
I also got my computer, a 2gHz laptop with 2 gig of RAM, and best of all, running XP! It came with a docking station and 19″ flat screen monitor. Now I supposed to either take my laptop home to do more work, or lock it up on my file cabinet.
This is a great company. It holds itself to a very high standard, and expects all of the employees to uphold the same standard. This is a Fortune 30 company, and it got there by not slacking off. There is no room to be at anything less than your best, ethically and any other way you want to measure performance.
I have no qualms working for this company. They take care of their employees and expect nothing less in return. I can work here without a problem.
This comes literally less than 60 days from the tenth anniversary of when I first crawled into the closet and started screaming. I have been shaped by the last decade into someone who is truly able to help people who cannot help themselves.
You can look back into my archives and see how I have changed, just in the past five years. I have been through the forge and come out all the stronger. I am not the same person I was the day before the closet. I am a better person, and I thank God for it.
Change never is easy, and this has been extraordinary tough. I didn’t think I would make it through some hours, let alone days.
Now that I am here, I am glad to repeat something that my IOOV teacher told me.

“I am now, I always have been, and always will be in the right place at the right time to complete the mighty work for which I was so magnificently created.”

I suggest you go though your life with that in mind, and see where it gets you.