Girls camping trip! May 12, 2010
Posted by gmbmfb in : Uncategorized , trackbackA couple of my girlfriends and I have planned a camping trip every summer for the past 2 years on the Labour Day long weekend. Last year’s was kind of lame because I was sick and had to bail out early. And the year before we got rained on. So we’ve decided just to plan it on a regular weekend in July. And I am super excited. It will be an inexpensive, fun weekend with my best friends here in Vancouver.
Speaking of friends, all of my co-workers at my new job are SUPER friendly. The girls I am most in contact with (including my boss) are all around my age or in their 30′s. They want to know about each other’s outside friends, they care about what everyone did on the weekend, and they actually want to hear stories, and they are genuinely interested in each other. I haven’t worked in such a great, positive environment like this since I worked at the rec centre.
And I know I’ve said this a million times before, but really – what a difference from my last job. Everybody here wants me to succeed and they want me to be in their work family. Whereas co-worker at my old job openly wanted me to fail, and made my life miserable. I wouldn’t go so far as to call my new co-workers my friends, but I could definitely see myself going for lunch/coffee with them or maybe even stuff outside of work later down the road. One of them has done all the cool hikes that BF and I have done, and even more. And my boss has invited me to go to her lunchtime boot camp class that she sometimes goes to. Although I have to be really careful about making friends at work. Mixing my personal life with my work life can get messy and I was never really a fan of making friends at work to begin with. But, since I’ve moved to Vancouver the only friends I’ve made is from past jobs. So. Yeah.
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I'm actually kinda suprised that you're suprised with your new work environment. Every place I've worked has been like that generally. I'm very suprised your former place was so cold. How did you ever stand it?
I don't know, I guess I got used to it at my old job? Plus, I was coming from my job at the non-profit where my boss there was a monster (he was one of the main reasons why 9 people quit in my 8 months working there), so maybe I was used to an unhealthy work environment. Even though this job is more stressful in terms of the work, I feel less stressed because it's such a positive environment. And if this is the kind of place that most people work in every day, well I've been missing out on a lot over the past 2 years!
That is fabulous. I am so happy for you. I hope that one day soon I can experience that too!
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I so envy you enjoying your work environment it makes having to earn a living less of a chore. Girls weekends away are the most fun you could have I,m going on one myself tomorrow can,t wait.
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I guess we are both lucky. Why? Because we were both blessed with great friends and co-workers. I am not perfect, but I feel so lucky to have people who accept me for being me. :)