I'm glad you survived your first day, and really glad that's it's just a part-time thing! It sounds like it's not the most fun place to be. Do you feel like the things that you've forgotten will come back pretty quickly as you do them again? I'd be stressed too, but hopefully you'll "settle in" quickly and feel a bit more in control of everything!

The repetitive stuff sounds like a drag! Hopefully it's not an ongoing thing you need to do?

re: the testing... wow - the formulas for calculating the percentiles had been wrong for 8 years? Really?! Yikes! Scary! I don't know with the Highlands stuff, I know that they say they've done a lot of testing, but I never actually read through any of it... I will say that spatial relations stuff (where I scored so low) made total sense to me. I'm really genuinely terrible at it... I had trouble even figuring out what they were asking on the questions, if I remember right. In college, I remember standing outside the dorm one day when a friend pointed up and said, "there's my room!" - and I said - "um, how do you know?" LOL. I still have trouble, in my tiny townhouse, figuring out what things on the first and second floor overlap! I can figure out the front and back (because of the windows), but the stairs (and the turn at the top) just totally confound my brain! It's kind of funny, and makes me appreciate how hard other things (that I might find easy) are for other people.

Thanks for all the kind words, I appreciate it. It's rough right now. And, no... I haven't really interviewed anywhere else. Last year I was keeping an eye on job postings in my area, but nothing ever came up that looked interesting. Everything seemed like it was more of the same, and it didn't make sense to me to go through the stress of possibly changing jobs for a job that I didn't feel excited about from day 1! I think I'm like you - I've never really liked having a job. It's not that I don't like "working" - I like working on all sorts of things, especially where I can really dig in and solve interesting problems. I just hate everything that goes into having a job, especially at a big company with a lot of bureaucratic nonsense. *sigh*. And, it's always been that way. Even though I'm working from home, I'm still not enjoying it!