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| Thu, 10-14-2004 - 9:31pm |
OK, so much for my Gilda Radner imitation. Sigh, can we have her back? Goddess, ship her back for a few more years, please?
Anyway, I'm a working person again, and am slowly gaining back self esteem. I'm loving it. The people are nice, the work seems worthwhile, and the entire environment is wonderful. I loved working for a company, loved the work, and all but the moron that ran the company at that point. It soured me on being employed, led me to start my own business, which was built up over 7 years to where it was going well... and then came my personal issues, my running away, and the huge fall. And here I am. No worries about running anything. Not setting there by myself trying to motivate myself to do something my brain was rebelling against. Now I'm doing something new, doing something to help others, not to sell to others. I'm working with other people, training and having fun... and this time, is me that is there, and not some actress playing a guy.
I'm 4 days into a 5 week training period. Once done, I will be gathering information needed to make determinations on eligibility for employment benefits. What is nice is that the people have the mentality that we are here to try and help, not to try and be some cold government entity. Yeah, there are rules, but we are being trained to be compassionate and to put ourselves in their position... we are here to serve them. I like that attitude.
There are 7 of us training, along with one instructor. Some of the reading can be really dry, but as someone from the commercial insurance world... am used to reading rather dry stuff. My future boss seems really nice as well (and she has a nice butch do. I appreciate that she had no issue with my having crossed a gender line. I've worn a skirt twice this week, and yeah Pam... I'm becoming more girly than I ever was before... such is the feeling of freedom and confidence. Dress there is casual, as we don't meet with anyone, is all phone stuff... and many wear jeans. As someone who was born wearing jeans, that is nice... but I've also been self employed and in jeans for 12 years, and before that wearing guy suits drove me *nuts*. I hated it, hated them, yuch. When I met up with my former boss and office manager last summer, we had a nice laugh about it. The office manager used to get on me about wearing hiking boots to work, not wearing a tie, etc. She mentioned the boots, and I held up my foot to reveal a nice Naturalizer black sandal, which really made her laugh "why didn't ya tell me then? Those would have been perfect!"
So I'm working 27.5 hours per week, and once done training will work 2-7:30. The pay is 1/6th of my former earnings, and I don't give a sh*t! This is perfect.
Y'all have fun this weekend, what with Pam and her Pole, and the attempt to give Courtney a nice butch cut (was I supposed to reveal that?) Just kidding, Courtney.

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I hate to disappoint you Nelle but there was no pole in the middle of Kim's living room.
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