This is my first full week at the New Contract Gig. I started the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and worked was online the three days before Thanksgiving. And my official start date might have been even earlier because onboarding as a contractor is messy.
On the positive side, this is probably the best time to come aboard because things are winding down on most people's calendars and our clients tend to have restrictions on upgrades and installations at the end of the year. The only downside is my colleagues likely look forward to this downtime and don't really want to teach the newbie things when they could be mailing it in for the next month.
Finally, even though this is a contract role, and I'm dealing with the 3rd party BS that comes with that, it feels different. The team is treating me like I'm part of the company. NG didn't really want me to get a job because she would prefer I be the SAHD. However, we can use the income and I feel this is my best shot at staying in the job market in case things go South in the South.
Since moving to Olive Branch, we now do the reverse commute of what we previously did to visit the in-laws when we lived in Chicago. So we left here on the Saturday before Thanksgiving and drove to Mt Vernon. While we are getting better and better at this, we still manage to forget something. Luckily it wasn't anything important this time.
However, Natasha was not feeling well when we got there. It turns out she had a UTI/Kidney infection and we had to get her on antibiotics. Which is really easy to do when you are 4 hours from home.
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