Date:	2007-04-11 17:47
Subject:	Welcome...
Security:	Public
Mood:	hopeful

I started on London Underground near the end of February, and spent two weeks going through training at Ashfield House.  Come mid-March, I found myself pitched headlong into the duties of a Reserve CSA - that's Customer Services Assistant.  We're the people you see standing on the gatelines, making announcements and waving at trains.  Being a reserve, I get shifted around between the seven stations on my group.  It's a pain because you rarely know even a week in advance where you'll be working, though the upside is that you're not stuck at the same station day in, day out.  While that might not be a bad thing at a busy station, at the tiddly end of the line ones I expect it might well be mind-numbing. 

I figured I'd start this blog as something to look back on, as much as anything else.  I've skimmed a few other LU blogs and have more on my to-read list.  Hopefully it might give other people a little laugh as well now and then, too. 

First, a bit about me - I'm female and under-25 and before this job went to an all-girl's school, then worked in a shop for seven years (okay, so some of those overlapped with my school years) which had a predominantly female staff as well.  And this was all down in Dorset, so to say that the beginning of this year has been an upheaval is an understatement.  On top of that I was still leaving with a parent, and I'm now sharing a flat with a friend. 

Real life, here I finally am.