New season. New job. New clothing. New colleges. I have started my new trainee-job at Radisson Nydalen in north Oslo. So far have I had “one week” it was actually only two half day’s with information. This last week was the proper week with learning some of my tasks for the rest of my time here. Except for the part that this week is the first week I needed newclothing. For me that meant a new wardrobe well at least one part of only office clothes. I can wear darkblue or black Jeans or nice pants, the blazershall also be blue or black and I need high heels when I walk in and out from back-office. If you’d asked me ten years ago that wasn’t me. Luckily both I and my work has changed.
I enjoy this work so far. It’s not just a job for me. It is in the environment I like. I hope this can lead to a proper job.
Since I started the course in office and administration two years ago, my dream was to work in Radisson Hotel. Which apartment I did not know and which hotel did not matter either back than. Now, after a year in the reception I know thatisnot me or where I can do my best. It was okay for what it was but to usemyknowledgeandlearn even more in an office is where I get satisfied.
…In the end of September I got the opportunity to start walking beside the night-shift at the Hotel where I have my trainee-time. It was the “dream-moment” I’ve had for a long time in all kind of jobs I’ve had. In the same time everything felt a bit unreal. I mean I was happy I’ve got this opportunity! This was my thoughts: “what will I do when I am awake, will I sleep my seven hours I normally sleep, without any problem?”
Signs right outside PS:Hotell. Night picture.
And I have to say it’s been like normal time at home. I do things as anyone else it is just an other time on the day then most of my friends “daytime”. The toughest is to go from a free day to start 6.30 am and get early enough in bed to get up at 5.00 am!
I had my first night-shift the 26th of September. The most of the tasks are the same but I’ve learn some new. During the night you have to send reports to the bosses of the Hotel, and in the Hotel (the different ares like housekeeping, restaurant and reception), which you only do on the night.. An other of the tasks is to clean the barista machine and the coffee Thermoses. You check all the bookings a month ahead and cash settlement.
“..the difficult again is to get to the gym.”
So far I’ve done seven night-shifts and I’m loving it! It fits me more then anything I ever worked with. It takes time to adjust to this too, to see how much I need to sleep and what I’ll have energy to do.
The difficult again is to get in to a good rhythm to go to the gym. I have realized that I have to do the normal monthly work-out payment to be able to get my work-out I need because my work schedule isn’t even close to five days in a row. Sometimes my free-days are only the weekend other times it’s in the middle of the week, and with a normal gym-set-up you go whenever you want any time. But I go through something called “active in the daytime” only during the week 9.00 am to 14.00 pm. It just doesn’t work for me. 😥
Winter in Oslo in October.
During the last week has the Northern wind arrived to Oslo and the winter feather jacket got out of the suitcase for me and more wool cloths out of the dresser. Something I like to try to not do until the middle of October but not this year apparently.. But I rather be warm with good clothing and stay in the fashion mote.
“..alone to many hours, played less and slept more..”
In the mean time of this new experience I had bad consciencefor my cat Silver. He was alone for to many hours, slept more and more, played less and less. It was time for Silver to get a play-friend. So I started my “hunt” of a new adult cat to keep him company. And the 10th of October I got a castrated female cat called Pus (which means cat here in Norway) so I started to calling her Pussi (also normal animal name here in Scandinavia). But an other day this week I received a text msg from the old owner that her name actually is Selma which is so so far away from the name I gave her. So I’ll try Selma and see if she responds. In the mean time I use her nickname.
Selma 5 y.o.
I can’t say they were friends from the beginning. They have had there fights but now after one and a half week they do play together, have an eye on each other, don’t sleep near each other but they can sit on the desk kind of together with some distance. It took about a week for Selma to “I want to be near you, my new owner”. But since day 5 she sleep in my bed on top of my legs and not besides my legs!
Time flies fast, when you have fun or have something to do.
It was first of August just now, well at lest in my head, life, world. But it is the twenty-first! That’s more then half the month. Where did those days and weeks go?
I started as a trainee in a hotel here in Oslo the first of August and I love it! It is a big prayer-answer! Friends have been with me in prayer for this for so may years! It has been a journey with God, where he has tout me how to trust him on 100% and not less. How God has provide my life, financially, with food, with getting to a doctor when I was to sick to catch a bus and a friend drove me. It is so much God has shown me and how great it is when I trust God.
It has been my journey I needed to learn to trust God more.
To understand that this is my foundation for my faith in life. Most people would maybe get mad or crazy to not have a job over five years. It has been a journey with tears, joy, struggles, “whys”, many prayers of “open the right door” and “close those doors that shall not even show some lights”. But I have to say, I have always something to do, one of the things is my customers and secondly is every project I start where I live. And I have been taking some courses during those years, but manly I have trusted God to get into some-kind of work-experience where God wants me, can use me. And here it is. The answer.
As I said above, I have started as a trainee in a Hotel here in Oslo. I love it! It’s fun even those days when we do not have so much to do. Even if my wish was that it would be more that happen during those days I guess that in one way it is good to be here as a trainee in Oslo’s smallest Hotel in the way that it does not take long time to get in to the Hotel-routines, but and yes I have to say but. But I wish it was more going on manly because I need it. I am the kind of person that need the “busy time” to refill my battery (energy) I get energy of meeting and helping people, and here at this Hotel does it feel like everything goes in s-l-o-w-m-o-t-i-o-n or a better description is that when the guests are arriving do they not come everyone in the same time (which is normal) or not even close to each other. A normal day few guest comes maybe around 3pm when we start the in-check and then its a long gap (more then an hour) until next group of guest comes, it can even pasting more then two hours before next guest…
In the same time these days going so fast and I only do four hours per day.
I will start with eight hours next week, which is a bit scary for me. Manly because I have not been working for the last five years, have had back-issues since the summer of 2000 and the worst pain the most recently in the last two years.
But I am to curious to start on those eight hours per day. I am curious and anxiety in the same time about how it will go. And I am to stubborn to not try.
The 17th was my free day – off work. A day I priority to go to the gym, for my health. A routine I got out of during summer, a routine I now struggle to get back into. I miss it so much! But I guess it is normal with new routines in life whatever it is a new job or studies, to get the time to reach to do those things that makes you happy or build up your life in a long term. I guess it is normal when your weeks looks different.
Anyway… I am looking forward to get into a work-routine my body manage.
I received a message from a friend through messenger on Thursday this week, where I had told here about my struggle to get a new routine in my life. And she answered that “it’s normal before all new things get into routines about everything in life” It was just so nice to “hear it” from someone I know and someone who has been in the situation quiet recently.
An ironic detail happen on Thursday.. I managed to get off work thirty minutes before I was suppose to get off. I guess I just was just tired in my head or that I had an other day in my mind. I realized that on my way to the bus so I called the Hotel and talked to the guy in charge. Which in my mind made it normal to think I will start thirty minutes earlier on Friday. Something weird happen there, I can still not say what happen.
During those days at the Hotel have I learn out-check, in-check, double-checking the booking system the hotel is using, where all the rooms are, how many it is, how many conference rooms we have, overbooking, where the fire signs are and some more. How close everyone in the hotel is working together no matter if you are in the housekeeping or in the restaurant. Which also means that “your routine” is not always the original routine, it can be to help someone else in an other ares. Quite many new things, I have got to know around twenty-five new colleges and started to walk much much. All good things in life.
This is how to Relax!
Today is it Sunday, laundry-day and relaxing, charge my energy-day. I have realized that when I am at the Hotel I do not have enough energy when I get home to do more then necessary like eat, maybe check my email, maybe order things that I need (that other people rather buy in the store) to keep up in life. But it is okay for me. Life is to short to think about what other people think I should or could do so I do not do that.
For the future,I really hope and wish I will be able to start to go next to the night-shift worker in a sooner future then I had in mind when I started three weeks ago, and that the night-shift will fit me as much as I think it will. Because that has been my dream so many years now…
mia-simone. svenberg 