I'm New... and Yet Not

Posted: 2010-01-19 20:52:10

Today started the first day of my full-time employment at Arc Worldwide. It's funny going through orientation after having worked there for over 6 months already. I thought it was going to be boring as all hell, and even whined to my boss about having to go (to no avail). But it turns out there's still a lot to learn.

I got a lesson in the history of the company, finally found out where the mail room was, learned about some cool perks of being a Leo Burnett employee, and had a much more pleasant day than I had planned on having.

It's really a metaphor for life (soooo deeeeep). It's easy to become stagnant, to think that you know all there is to know. Or, if not to the extreme of complete pompousness, then to think that you have little left to learn. It seems to me quite a stupid move to cut yourself off from learning more about anything, be it your job, your friends, your home town, or the bacterial infections during the early stages of life in cold water fish.

I suppose any time you learn something, you get that much better. It doesn't really even need to be measurable. I won't be able to code better because I know where the mail room is, but I will be able to steal magazines that people don't pick up, which in turn may have information about coding better. Or something.

Point is, don't stop learning, and get off your damned high horse!

(I'm yelling at myself, not you, don't worry.)