Okay. I need to get this out. I LOVE my job. Like seriously, it’s pretty awesome. I love my students, it’s challenging, and (most of the time) I look forward to it. But does it have it’s frustrating moments?

Hell yes.

I have not had internet in my office for a full week now. Almost everything I do is on the computer and needs an internet connection. Thankfully, I have my laptop and just bring that with me (it’s the ethernet connection that’s down, not wireless, but the computer doesn’t get wireless), but what would I do if I didn’t have a laptop?

And the people. Good god, the people. There are many of them that I love, but there’s also a bunch that I wouldn’t mind if I never saw again. Now I get it that I’m the new person, but there’s one person in particular (who is also new), who is clearly given praise at every waking moment and knows it, and flaunts it. But there’s really no reason why she’s on this pedestal, and it’s annoying and even demeaning to myself and the other new people I work with. Like, what makes her the greatest thing since sliced bread?

And finally, my duty partner. One of the sweetest girls ever, but a little dense, and let’s face it, the last two nights, I’ve done almost all of rounds by myself or with a different coworker because she either had a meeting during the same time or an incident happened and she had to deal with it (totally fine- that’s our job). I guess it’s just that it seems to me that obviously, she’s not here for the career- she’s here for the job and that bothers me. Not necessarily that it happens, but that it’s so blatantly obvious that you’re not really invested. For the last three and a half years, all I have wanted is to be where I am today, and it just hurts to know that someone could have just waltzed in without caring in the slightest, while I fought and struggled.