Play it on the way in each morning of your first week or two, or before you log on if you work from home. It takes two or three minutes. Let it play twice, then go in and ask your first question of the day.
Read by Ivy
01First week at a new job, and new is supposed to feel like this.
02They chose me. The skills that got me hired came through the door with me.
03I ask questions freely. Each one now saves a mistake later.
04Everything new goes in my notes. They remember what my head can’t yet.
05Feeling slow is normal here. Each day I find my way a bit faster.
06I learn names and use them. That’s how a place starts to feel like mine.
07Watching comes before changing. My ideas will keep.
08When I get something wrong, I own it and fix it. First-month mistakes are expected.
09Someone else’s fifth year isn’t my first week. They were new once too.
10Today I know more than I did yesterday. This place is already less strange.
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Why it’s written this way
The first week at a new job asks you to feel competent while knowing almost nothing about where you are. This loop separates those two things. It starts by making the strangeness normal, then reminds you that the skills that got you hired are still yours, even when you can’t find the printer.
The middle notes are small, practical habits that make a new place easier: asking questions, writing things down, learning names, watching before changing. Each gets its own note so it can stick. Then the loop deals with what gets in the way: feeling slow, getting something wrong, and comparing yourself with people who have been there for years.
Nothing here claims you’ll love the job or be brilliant at it by Friday. It ends on a line that is true every single day of the first month: you know more than you did yesterday.