So, the word is out and everyone knows about the job change. And if you, too, are going to ask me the most obvious question - How was the first day at work?
Won't be able to put the answer as straight as the question. So, here’s an attempt:
Changing your workplace feels no different than you relocating to a new city and having been forced to change your school.
From sharing your lunch box with all your childhood buddies during the recess to sitting alone, eating and showing the classroom that you are busy reading a book but in reality, you are looking for a company :p
You don't know who from the staff room will be your class teacher. Similarly, you are just trying to guess - 'Is he/she my to-be-boss?'
The fear of new teachers translates into the discomfort you would share with your new bosses.
From which bench to sit on to 'oh, is this bench already occupied?', you don't know which computer will be yours.
Though that's just one side of it. Here's another:
It's a brand new world you enter into. New office, new faces, new computer, new parking lot and a new life.
No judgements, no perceptions. You create the world you want to live into.
You are assured, any boss would be better than your last boss :p
If its a change, it's gotta be a better profile, better position, better pay package and better car parking space (that's just by luck ;-)
Buy brand new clothes and show the world you are going to be the next CEO of the same company ;-)