My first full day of work in almost 2 years and my first in a university.
It’s more different from the grubby commercial world than I imagined. In a morning orientation with my boss, she recalled her initial impressions of her first days. In relating it to a friend, her wise friend replied that she had now entered a medieval world. As I went through the day, I realized how true that was.
The central concepts of the medieval, or more correctly, the feudal period was the fiefdom, the rigorous caste system and its resulting lack of mobility. You were what you were.
That may take some getting used to, but after all this time out of the workplace, what wouldn’t?