Since getting this new job, I've had to start getting used to stuff. Stuff like not having much free time and not having enough time to actually get enough sleep.
There are also other things.
I think, before I started this job, I used the phone um...twice in the previous four years? I hate the machine. I had a full-blown phobia over the damn thing and would be close to tears if someone so much as mentioned that maybe I should think about possibly using it.
When I first started my new job, I refused to pick up the phone when it rang. My new workmates would tell me that I'll have to do it eventually and that I'll get used to it.
Then they left me alone with it one afternoon and it rang. I was the only one there to pick it up. I answered it and was on it for a whole...two minutes? By the time I got off, I was sweating, shaking and damn near tears.
Almost three months on, I can answer my work phone. I've Sucked It Up and gotten used to it. I still hate it and still panic over having to make a call but I can use the phone.
I still can't leave an answer phone message but I'll get there some day. ![]()






I used to hate answering the phone or having to make a call using the work's phone too, but I got used to it (eventually).