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outsdrLast week was a busy one for me.
Monday was a holiday, so my first day at the new job was Tuesday. I met the crew, and was given a brief demonstration and orientation of what we would be doing. Basically, my job entails unboxing hardware for computer installations at the hospital, assembling what needs to be assembled, boxing it up for transport, and then occasionally going to the destination site and installing the hardware. The hardware consists of a large pneumatic arm assembly that mounts to a vertical rail on the wall. The arm holds the monitor and the keyboard. The computer itself is a small thin client terminal that is mounted at the top of the rail. Then I run all the cables and make them look pretty and I'm done. It all sounds simple enough, and it is , but ...
Tuesday, Wednesday, and most of Thursday I spent nearly eight hours standing on my feet, in one place, on concrete. By the end of the day, I could hardly walk. Thursday it was so bad I didn't think I'd be able to continue the job. By the time I would get home at the end of the day, I could barely walk. And in the morning, as soon as my feet hit the floor the pain started coming back.
As luck would have it, I remembered seeing people wearing funny looking shoes with big coils at the heel. I looked them up online; they're called Z-Coils, and a shop was located not far from my work place. Not only did they have what I was looking for in my size, which is unusual, the pair was on sale for %50 off, which is even more unheard of!
I wandered around the store for awhile wearing them, and my feet immediately started feeling a little better. The saleslady made some adjustments to my shoes, and away I went.
I wore them at work all day Friday, and to be honest, I think these shoes have saved me my job. Without them, I don't know if I would have been able to return to work on Monday. But when I wear them, even though my feet still ache at the end of the day, it's not crippling pain like it had been.
Which is good, because I'm really enjoying my job so far. I like what I'm doing, even though it sounds boring. I'm not stuck behind a desk any more. I like my coworkers (even kinda the guy who today suddenly told me that he "refuses to obey any law that contradicts the bible". I felt it prudent not to point out that the shirt he was wearing was a cotton polyester blend.)
I was worried that I was working too slowly. Everyone on the team is younger than me, and for the first part of the week they wear working rings around me. But without being hobbled by pain, I'm working faster than many of them now myself.
So, yay me!
(On an annoying note, I swung by my previous employer to ask for my final paycheck. He said he;d call me when he had it ready, because 'he's broke'. Lovely.)
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Monday was a holiday, so my first day at the new job was Tuesday. I met the crew, and was given a brief demonstration and orientation of what we would be doing. Basically, my job entails unboxing hardware for computer installations at the hospital, assembling what needs to be assembled, boxing it up for transport, and then occasionally going to the destination site and installing the hardware. The hardware consists of a large pneumatic arm assembly that mounts to a vertical rail on the wall. The arm holds the monitor and the keyboard. The computer itself is a small thin client terminal that is mounted at the top of the rail. Then I run all the cables and make them look pretty and I'm done. It all sounds simple enough, and it is , but ...
Tuesday, Wednesday, and most of Thursday I spent nearly eight hours standing on my feet, in one place, on concrete. By the end of the day, I could hardly walk. Thursday it was so bad I didn't think I'd be able to continue the job. By the time I would get home at the end of the day, I could barely walk. And in the morning, as soon as my feet hit the floor the pain started coming back.
As luck would have it, I remembered seeing people wearing funny looking shoes with big coils at the heel. I looked them up online; they're called Z-Coils, and a shop was located not far from my work place. Not only did they have what I was looking for in my size, which is unusual, the pair was on sale for %50 off, which is even more unheard of!
I wandered around the store for awhile wearing them, and my feet immediately started feeling a little better. The saleslady made some adjustments to my shoes, and away I went.
I wore them at work all day Friday, and to be honest, I think these shoes have saved me my job. Without them, I don't know if I would have been able to return to work on Monday. But when I wear them, even though my feet still ache at the end of the day, it's not crippling pain like it had been.
Which is good, because I'm really enjoying my job so far. I like what I'm doing, even though it sounds boring. I'm not stuck behind a desk any more. I like my coworkers (even kinda the guy who today suddenly told me that he "refuses to obey any law that contradicts the bible". I felt it prudent not to point out that the shirt he was wearing was a cotton polyester blend.)
I was worried that I was working too slowly. Everyone on the team is younger than me, and for the first part of the week they wear working rings around me. But without being hobbled by pain, I'm working faster than many of them now myself.
So, yay me!
(On an annoying note, I swung by my previous employer to ask for my final paycheck. He said he;d call me when he had it ready, because 'he's broke'. Lovely.)
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