6 down, 50 million to go

I can safely say that I'm more comfortable at work. I'm on my way to becoming a superstar receptionist - not.

I have the feeling like I'm kind of looked down upon at work because I'm a receptionist, probably because people have the impression that I'm looking to make a career out of it. "If you work really hard, there's definitely room for advancement..." or "We have company holidays each year, sometimes they take administrators too...if you work really hard...". Like I said, in December I'm outta there. Probably off to get another receptionist job, only 10,000 miles from here!

When I finished my undergraduate degree I was temping at the Boston Children's Hospital for about 6 weeks. I remember there being 2 receptionsist at the HR office and one of them had studied abroad in Australia for a semester. I always wondered what would possess a young person to take a job as a receptionist when they had such a shinning university career in languages and had studied abroad in Germany and Australia. Well, know I know - desperation.

I am those girls now. They were about 24, had just graduated and were looking for something in another field. I guess a receptionist job is what you get when your looking. I'm looking.

One of the perks is that I can't leave the office for lunch because the phones need to be tended to from 8:30am to 5:00pm. I'm the only one who bring lunch anyways and I eat it at my desk. I feel like a cow, grazing all day at my desk. Bananas, granola, crackers, sandwich halves, linguini. It's a perk because I get paid for 40 hours instead of 35. I get paid every Friday, so that gives me something to look forward to when I feel like I want to kill myself after answering the 89th phone call of the day.

In November we buy our tickets. 1 week down, 16 more to go!