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today i had the very first performance review of my working life.

this means i've been at my current job for 3 months. i feel like it's been far longer. this a good thing; an indication that i fit in very nicely. the review went well. my boss could have nailed me on a few things, but he was very generous, and rated me far higher than i rate myself. and i thought i was pushing my luck.

i am now an official employee, with access to all the privileges therein. i didn't get a raise, which i was secretly hoping for even though i don't think people always get those so soon in their tenure. we can only get raises when we get reviewed, so it's disheartening to think it'll be another nine months before i can obsessively, secretly calculate my new pay rate.

a good lesson to learn, and i've been schooled a few times now, is that things in life that are worth having are worth having because you had to work for it. you can only appreciate something if you have to earn it; usually your appreciation is proportional to the amount of work you had to put in.

as i mentioned before, i've never worked at a company were there were reviews and procedure for giving out raises. although i've steadily worked my way up the income ladder, i don't think i've ever been given a raise for simply doing a good job.