Familiarity

Life should not be about sending out an email at midnight and then sitting at your table, essentially clicking the refresh button and seeing if your boss responds immediately.

Sometimes it just is though and tonight, is just one such example.

I have been feeling somewhat lost since joining the Firm half a year back. Being placed on brand new transactions types is certainly good for career building but not when you are trying to show the bosses why they hire you in the first place.

Then out of nowhere, an IPO file falls on my lap and I am savouring every moment of it. Honestly matters little that I am back over the weekend or that I am working late. What matters is that I am in The Zone. I may not know the entire SFA, 5th Schedule SFR, Listing Manual etc but I am no longer groping in the dark, going around begging for precedents I never even knew existed. I am doing what I did at the Old Firm and the sense of familiarity is oddly, a breath of fresh air.

Okay, boss has responded with a single word. "Thx". Abbreviated even. I don't know if it means my advice is up to mark but it does mean I am done for tonight. Shower. Sleep.