Update on the life of a Zia
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zianuraySo.
Friday the 10th I had an appointment w/ the Career Center Workforce Development person -- henceforth to be designated A.
By HER lights, my AAS does NOT disqualify me from retraining! (See why I wanted a second opinion?) I'll get to take 8 weeks worth of computer classes at the Career Center (if I need the full 8 weeks, this is debatable) while I'm deciding what I want to do in my next phase of worklife.
We discussed where classes are covered and what sort of classes are covered and how much of what is covered. Medical pretty much guarantees a job, what with us "baby boomers" getting up there anymore. A seems to be fond of OTC. Suits me.
Massage Therapy is NOT covered under these programs....but LPN and RN are....(I can hear Virginia laughing. Shit.) One of the classes for that requires me to dissect a CAT. I'm not willing to do that. Fetal pig, no prob. Cat? Oh hell no. Will ask if they'll allow a substitution of another animal to allow for my religious preference on that. But PN/LPN/RN would set me up for any number of medical fields, some not directly involved in PT care. Respiratory Tech is covered, Pharm Tech (lousy pay), Radiology Tech (heavy lifting on that last bit.), OR Tech.
Reminder: discuss "shadowing" a nurse with the local hospital.
Get at least part-time job to stretch the unemployment money --
WallyWorld is putting a new SuperCenter a couple of miles from the house :D
Aw blast....if I'm going back to school, I'll have to reset my bodyclock to daytime operation! Crapcrapcrap! Not gonna be happy for a few weeks!
Made appt for 11 Sept for a Trade Act info meeting/class.
But no sense starting the classes or anything else while I'm still employed -- for one thing, it's against the rules, for another, IF I get called in and have to cancel, well, it upsets people.
Here cometh the aforementioned "So."
At 1600 hrs, on my drive home, I get a phone call from my supervisor's phone number. It's the ACTING supervisor, making some calls.
My section is no longer required to go in; we've been released.
I'll get a 40-hour check each week through the end of August, as I understand it. I'll have insurance coverage that long, plus another 16 weeks or so at the rate I'd been paying (NG will continue to cover the bigger portion).
I'll get my severance pay.
I'll ... get a new version of life?
I do think this may be about the best thing for me. This place is the reason I'm on anti-anxiety meds. And now I'm not there anymore.
Friday the 10th I had an appointment w/ the Career Center Workforce Development person -- henceforth to be designated A.
By HER lights, my AAS does NOT disqualify me from retraining! (See why I wanted a second opinion?) I'll get to take 8 weeks worth of computer classes at the Career Center (if I need the full 8 weeks, this is debatable) while I'm deciding what I want to do in my next phase of worklife.
We discussed where classes are covered and what sort of classes are covered and how much of what is covered. Medical pretty much guarantees a job, what with us "baby boomers" getting up there anymore. A seems to be fond of OTC. Suits me.
Massage Therapy is NOT covered under these programs....but LPN and RN are....(I can hear Virginia laughing. Shit.) One of the classes for that requires me to dissect a CAT. I'm not willing to do that. Fetal pig, no prob. Cat? Oh hell no. Will ask if they'll allow a substitution of another animal to allow for my religious preference on that. But PN/LPN/RN would set me up for any number of medical fields, some not directly involved in PT care. Respiratory Tech is covered, Pharm Tech (lousy pay), Radiology Tech (heavy lifting on that last bit.), OR Tech.
Reminder: discuss "shadowing" a nurse with the local hospital.
Get at least part-time job to stretch the unemployment money --
WallyWorld is putting a new SuperCenter a couple of miles from the house :D
Aw blast....if I'm going back to school, I'll have to reset my bodyclock to daytime operation! Crapcrapcrap! Not gonna be happy for a few weeks!
Made appt for 11 Sept for a Trade Act info meeting/class.
But no sense starting the classes or anything else while I'm still employed -- for one thing, it's against the rules, for another, IF I get called in and have to cancel, well, it upsets people.
Here cometh the aforementioned "So."
At 1600 hrs, on my drive home, I get a phone call from my supervisor's phone number. It's the ACTING supervisor, making some calls.
My section is no longer required to go in; we've been released.
I'll get a 40-hour check each week through the end of August, as I understand it. I'll have insurance coverage that long, plus another 16 weeks or so at the rate I'd been paying (NG will continue to cover the bigger portion).
I'll get my severance pay.
I'll ... get a new version of life?
I do think this may be about the best thing for me. This place is the reason I'm on anti-anxiety meds. And now I'm not there anymore.
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Date: 2007-08-12 07:03 am (UTC)Wow, wow, wow. It's sorta like the version of my detached meltdown in late April/early May but more interesting because of the plan and the logic and the wow.
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Date: 2007-08-12 03:21 pm (UTC)Have the best
-=TK
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Date: 2007-08-12 03:52 pm (UTC)Also: Your job is not the complete reason you're on meds. Don't get me wrong, the position was stressful, but that isn't the sole reason. Before you consider taking yourself off them, I would seriously weigh the risks-- life isn't just suddenly going to get cut and dried. We love you and like to see you happy.
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Date: 2007-08-12 09:57 pm (UTC)*but.. dissecting cats... no. I agree with you there.*
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Date: 2007-08-13 12:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-14 12:56 am (UTC)The cats they use in the dissections are animals who have been put down by animal shelters for various reasons, not animals who were put down solely for purpose of being dissected. I look at it as at least the animal is being put to a positive use (teacher future healers, both of humans and of animals) rather than having simply been killed. I don't know if that will make you feel any better about it, but it helped me a lot when I had to take Anat and Phys with cat dissection.