Feeling Like Home In The New Job… Finally!

A senior colleague took a couple of us new kids on a field trip to visit a few jobs last week.?On the first, we had an issue pop up that needs to be addressed.?A subcontractor didn’t perform up to any kind of standards on a project.?It was one of the worst install jobs I’ve seen in my career.

Unfortunately, that subcontractor’s management wasn’t seeing it the same way.?Having grown up in construction as a subcontractor, I’d never leave a project sitting like that.?It’s simply unacceptable.

This is where I feel at home in my new job.

I started poking around the corners of the web, looking for industry standards.?That wasn’t very fruitful, but I learned a lot in the process and that’s a good thing.?Then, rather than mess with industry standards, I started poking around the sub’s contract documents and submittals (that’s paperwork showing what with and/or how they’ll build something in the field).

It took some digging, but I found more than enough to get them to fix their problems.?I shared everything with the project manager running the job for our office and sat back in my chair for a few minutes, relishing the fact that I’m starting to feel like home in my new job.?There are still a lot of new things to learn and get used to, but there are those things that will be just like “the good old days”.

Neat little tidbit; with recovery, all of this has come to be.?I owe all of my peace, happiness and contentment to AA and recovery.?Without either, I’d have been worm food twenty years ago.

And for all of that, I am grateful.