I know I was meant to blog last night but after going to the gym I came home to no internet so was unable.
Anyway yesterday was amazing I learnt so much in just a day!
I arrived at the office around 8:30, and hour before I needed to. I like to be early most of the time, it gives me time to organised myself once I have arrived at my destination.
I checked in with reception explained I was early and went and sat down as I awaited someone from HR to collect me. In the short amount of time I was sat down for, 2 other people also came and sat down. Unbeknown to me they was also starters that day also. One was a senior project manager and the other was a graduate graphic designer.
Shortly after they both arrived the HR lady came and collected us and led us to a meeting room. Now we was sat in this room for 2 hours. She talked about all of the usual things when you start a new job, nothing overly exciting.
We had a short break after she had finished talking, when we came back she then had organised to take us to our designated area for the projects we are working on. But first she took us to I.T services where the senior project manager and the graphic designer collected there equipment. My equipment hadn't been organised yet as my contract was delayed so there wasn't any information about what I was doing, fortunately I had some information. After they had collected there equipment we was taken to our projects. It turns out we are working on the same project, just in different teams as you would expect.
I got introduced to my team lead I think there position is called. He is a very nice gentleman and also incredible smart. He then explained more about the project, I won't say anything as I'm not sure if I can, but the project I'm working on is something that has never been done before, which is very exciting! He then asked where my machine was I explained to him the situation and everything was fine I just had to occupy myself whilst he chased it. Which was fine as I had both my iPad and iPhone with me.
By the time all if this had happened it was about 1pm. Which meant lunchtime, I didn't feel like going around London for lunch so I stayed in the office and ate at my desk. After lunch there still wasn't any sign of a machine for me, however in the mean time I had been invited to a meeting discussing cookies (not the yummy kind) and localStorage.
This meeting was amazing we was in there for 2 hours just discussing why you would use what for what. Going through use cases and working it through, it was defiantly enjoyable and I took so much from this. Once the meeting had finished it was around 4pm and I had nothing to do so I poped to I.T Support to see where my machine was, I was told it would be with my by tomorrow at 10am.
Once I got back to my desk I sat down and went through notes I had taken in the meeting, and wrote them up on my iPad. By the time I finished doing that I was 6pm and my first day as a technologist was complete! I left the office at around 6pm and headed for the train station. It takes about 45 mins to travel across London, this was fine though. There was space to sit on the tube and it wasn't to hot. However when I got to the train station that I needed to be at I had 2 minutes to get on the tube otherwise I would have missed the train, so I had to do the dreaded thing and run. I made it though however there wasn't any seats left so I had to stand from Marylebone to Wendover.
I got back to Aylesbury about 7:30. I was picked up at the station by my partner and we drove to the gym for a swim. We finished there about 8:45 I guess and headed home for some dinner and sleep.
So into today, I knew I didn't have to be in so early today as I know how long it takes me to get door to door, so I was able to get a later train which was nice. The train in the morning was quiet and I slept for most of the journey.
I got to work around 9 and sat at my desk and waited for something to do, around half 9 I was called to a scrum, which is like a debrief on the day before with everyone on your team. Although I don't have a team yet my lead allowed me to go along and experienced them. They was really chill everyone went through what they had done the previous day, what they plan to do today and what possible blockers do they have. This is how a agile enviorment works, which was cool to see. Once this had finished me and my lead headed to I.T to see where my laptop was.
When we got there it still wasn't ready which sucked. So we headed back to the office and I had to occupy myself again, which isn't that difficult to do when you have wifi and a iPad. Around 11am a lady who I had briefly met yesterday came into the office and noticed I still hadn't received my laptop. She then got on the phone to I.T and from her face I could tell it was rather aggressive, but nevertheless it was putting pressure on them.
After this had finished I met the big boss of the project the guy overseeing everything, this project is worth over twenty million pound and he's responsible for the oversight of everything, no pressure right? Anyway he came and introduced himself to me and he is a real nice bloke and made me feel very welcome. He was also disgusted I hadn't recieved a machine and spoke to a few people and got it sorted within an hour, which you know is awesome.
I then spent my afternoon reading documentation about the project. Once I had done this I started to look at the prototypes, pulling the code to pieces and making sure I understood what was going on, I need to spend some more time looking at it but I'm pretty confident that I can work it out. I was also told that the project uses SASS. Which I haven't used before, but i read about it for 2 hours, I'm going to build a basic site and play with SASS just to get a feel for it, it seems like an awesome tool.
So second day is now coming to an end, it's been a super fun packed day and I'm looking forward to tomorrow! I never thought I would actually want to get up for work, but I don't even see this as work, this is what I love doing, so for me it's just a desk in a different building!
I'll keep you posted on tomorrow!
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