Hello Corporate World!

As if to let you in on what is new in the new year:) I guess I begin with my new job. Yeah i finally gave in my passion for Media to take up a big position in our family company THE CREATIONS LTD as the Managing Director. Little did i know how little i knew about the corporate life and its demands!

Sure the pay is great and the working hours are amazing plus it does feel good to meet up after work with friends and family to have some coffee and dinner. But I was not prepared for the endless paper work!!(as the producer at my old work place the only paper work i did was for scripts i wrote. period!!) Sitting infront of a computer all day coz that is where all the work is done!! and now i am wearing my glasses almost full time! Even Sunday finds me four eyed! The bureaucratic way things are done and worst of all the wardrobe challenge.

At this point I should say that at my old work place even my boss wore jeans and shorts to work everyday. When i would wear a skirt everyone noticed because it was so out of place. It was a casual creative atmosphere all the way. With my new job I look lousy, wierd and unserious in my pair of jeans that I fear daring to wear one during the week. Yes I have surrendered myself to skirts and dresses (which were deep in my unpacked Campus suitcase that we were forced to wear for the Media Law class) and I must say I am sufferring heavily in that area. However, slowly but surely everyone is accepting my "jeans to work" Fridays (except when i have importantn meetings) because by then i have run out of skirts or my legs are feeling cold.

At my last job I did not handle money at all except on rare field shoots nor did i get paid a sensible "pay". Being MD has got me the chance to have a good sum of money (highest salary in my life but will never work for less than a couple of hundreds more than i get) and then the "naitvity and excitement of a big sum salary. I am not very unwise but after i removed my saving stash in the bank and paid all my bills (only internet and phone airtime charges) I had some good money to do what i love... going to nice places and eating good food with family or friends. So the past couple of weeks after i got paid saw me hanging out almost every evening with friends and definately family. Then the money run out and i had not yet bought necessities for my room and myself, I have to give tithe, i had not done my hair and i am still in the wardrobe crisis, plus there are some friends i have promised to take out for one legit reason or the other and finally I have a trip to Kenya to save for!!! What do i have left?? Barely enough!! But hey, it was my first big salary(trying to make myself feel better) Good thing i have allowances to cover basic day to day expenses like lunch and transport.

Another lesson on how to monitor how i spend my money wisely. Maybe for the next month, I won't be so showy but plan properly for it. I will definately keep a low profile next month too!

I am thankful to God for this job, so much to do and so much am learning and growing. So here is a toast!! To joining the corporate world. Glad to be here.

Happy Monday people:)

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