Ungrateful Fool

Alarm goes off at 5:30...Wake up and see the darkness that is still the morning. Make breakfast, read the paper, and then off to downtown LA. Make my way through traffic, arrive at my building, take the elevator, and walk to my cubicle (I must add it's a very nice cubicle). Eat lunch with co-workers at 12:30 and then go back to work. At 5, drive home or meet up with people around the area. Sleep by 11.

On the surface, this encompasses my daily schedule. Just ended my first week of real full-time work, and still adjusting to the routine (feels a but like high school). It is sad, but I've discovered many people have become jaded in the workplace, and it has become a place of drudgery and responsibilities. And I have already begun the process of daily complaints and the yearning for lunch hour.

How dare I! I am so fortunate to be working and learning so much every day. I am blessed to be breathing (literally). I am blessed to have found work so quickly. I am blessed to have been given an opportunity to learn about risk management, credit analysis, portfolio management, and the entire process of asset-based lending, approvals, disbursements, and collection at a small and growing financing firm (factoring, letters of credit, insurance). I am blessed to have great co-workers, and a small group to do bible study after work every Monday in a board room looking over Los Angeles. I am blessed to have a family to go back to every day and share dinner. I am just super blessed and fortunate.

I will try my best to refrain from complaining; instead, strive to learn and pursue excellence in the work that I do.

Wake up at 530AM. Praise God for another day. Praise God constantly during the day. Make a positive impact on my workplace. Do not succumb to drudgery. Love, and then love some more.