All day on the job

Today I did a full shift of shadowing in the terminal, with one of the babes from yesterday. Spent most of the day sat on the check-in desk for unaccompanied kids, which was empty for 99% of the time, so I learnt nothing there. However, had some good banter there with colleagues I met today and the time went quite quickly. I did spend a short while in the thick of it dealing with passengers, but not enough really. There's nothing I could have done about that; my job today was to shadow an agent for the duration of their shift, and that's what I did. Next week is 100% shadowing, so I should chalk up my experience with passengers/computers then.

T5 is pretty damn quiet at the moment, because there are no school holidays and the long haul flights aren't moving there until summer. It's also absolutely enormous, so that makes it seem even quieter because the passengers are spread out all over the place. I've been warned however that summer is going to be total carnage, and that I should enjoy the relative peace while I can. In spite of this, I was still speaking to people today who'd been shaken up pretty badly dealing with furious customers. It appears that it's pretty much sink or swim. I'll just have to sit it out until I get my first 'conflict', which will probably be next week as tomorrow I have a day in the classroom again.

My poker-playing targets are falling way below par. Regular readers will remember that I set myself a goal of earning as much additional income as possible from poker, but at the moment I'm just constantly tired and never feel like playing. Forcing myself to play would be obviously stupid, so for the time being I'm only getting the hands in at weekends, and even then it's not that much. I'll just have to wait until I get into some kind of routine before I start playing a decent amount.

My eyes are already feeling heavy, and it's only 7.30 and bright sunshine outside. At least summer is on its way.

More soon folks

-J