{"id":2444,"date":"2015-05-05T15:28:35","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/ucinfo\/?p=2444"},"modified":"2023-06-29T15:26:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T20:26:33","slug":"dear-new-uc-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/ucinfo\/2015\/05\/05\/dear-new-uc-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear New UC Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2480\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/ucinfo\/files\/2015\/05\/GraphicsFun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2480\" alt=\"GraphicsFun\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/ucinfo\/files\/2015\/05\/GraphicsFun.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Graphics &amp; Marketing, Fall 2014<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dear New UC Employees,<\/p>\n<p>I have only a few words to share, and it will be just a few words because when you love the work you&#8217;re doing and the people you&#8217;re with this much, there are very few words that adequately express what you&#8217;d like to say. I guess I&#8217;d like to begin by saying welcome! You may not know it yet, but you just joined a wonderful, albeit slightly eccentric, family of UC students and staff.<\/p>\n<p>At first glance, the UC might appear like most other &#8220;traditional&#8221; college jobs. While in some ways this is true, there&#8217;s so much more to working in the UC. Each day is a learning experience, and during my time here, I&#8217;ve had many opportunities to hone my skills before graduation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I learned to work on tight deadlines and still produce quality work.\n<p><div id=\"attachment_2481\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2481\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2481 \" alt=\"SetUpCrewFunnyPic\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/ucinfo\/files\/2015\/05\/SetUpCrewFunnyPic.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2481\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Set Up Crew, Fall 2014<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<li>I learned to be a strong writer and an even better editor.<\/li>\n<li>I learned how to spell accommodations. (It only took four years.)<\/li>\n<li>I learned that the vast majority of the time, some aspect at any job you have will likely be a little bit messy. No institution, organization, company or person is perfect-including you, and change is incredibly hard. At some point before you were around, someone made a mistake. I know I did. At some point while you&#8217;re here, you&#8217;ll probably make a mistake too. Your success in any given endeavor is not determined by the \u00a0mistakes you make, but how you respond to them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You&#8217;ve probably heard me say that I love my job. Well, it&#8217;s true; I do. I love coming to work every day at a place with so much creative energy and spirit that it practically bubbles out the office door. Most days I couldn&#8217;t wait to get to work because the work I was doing and the people I was with meant so much to me.\u00a0However, there were also challenging days: days when I didn&#8217;t get enough sleep, when things didn&#8217;t go as planned, and I wasn&#8217;t sure how what I was doing now was going to apply to my future.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the secret, friends: you get out of a UC job however much you&#8217;re willing to put it. Some of you might be looking for just a paycheck to fill the cracks in your budget, but your position in the UC can be so much more than that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2482\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2482\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2482\" alt=\"WarhawkAlleyFunnyPic\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/ucinfo\/files\/2015\/05\/WarhawkAlleyFunnyPic.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2482\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Warhawk Alley, Fall 2014<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m not quite sure how the past four years have gone by so quickly, but I do know working at the UC has made me a better a marketer, teacher, coworker, and person. As I head off to the next chapter of my life, all I can think about is how lucky I am to have known so many individuals who are so difficult to say goodbye to. I will never forget my experiences and lessons learned in the UC; I have made connections and memories that will last a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>Best of luck&#8211;not that you need it!<\/p>\n<p>Laura<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear New UC Employees, I have only a few words to share, and it will be just a few words because when you love the work you&#8217;re doing and the people you&#8217;re with this much, there are very few words&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/ucinfo\/2015\/05\/05\/dear-new-uc-employees\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3015,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1068030,68583,887006],"tags":[109097,109098],"class_list":["post-2444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-uc","category-student-marketing-committee","category-student-org-spotlight","tag-new-employees","tag-uc-employees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/ucinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/ucinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/ucinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/ucinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/ucinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/ucinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2488,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/ucinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions\/2488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/ucinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/ucinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/ucinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}