Weekend Work

I passed another milestone in my "new" job a couple of weeks ago. I worked my first weekend. This marked the end of my official training and the start of handeling benches on my own. Weekends have a lower volume of work but with fewer staff, I had a large hematology area to cover. The weekend went really well and I managed to hold my own despite it being only 3 days after going live with our new hematology analyzers. Funny thing though; working that weekend made me the resident expert on the new instruments which pretty much still stands. I dont mean that in a cocky way by any means. The analyzer is new to everyone and having four or so consecutive days running it, trouble shooting it, and releasing results with low volume of "experts" to ask over the weekend made me feel pretty competent. I really enjoyed the fast pace and managed to keep up and hold my own. The downside of working the weekend was, well, not having a weekend, but having the days off during the week was a huge perk. I even got to take Mom out for her birthday! I dont know, maybe I can get use to this weekend thing... At least for the couple time a month it comes around.