No, I'm not referring to that show that was on in the 90's. I am talking about now being gainfully employed. As most of my small readership knows, I started a new job last Friday with the Department of Children and Family Services. So far, we've been doing paperwork stuff that's pretty boring. Things like learning how to claim our mileage (we get reimbursed!!), request overtime, retirements plans, etc. So boring. And I've been stressing out so much over picking a health plan, which is lame because it's not like I'm signing up for life. It's a year, and if I don't like it and I'm still working with the same company, I can switch. Anyway, today was the first "back to social work" training day we've had. We focused the whole day on interviewing techniques. Many of them we learned during graduate school, but it was nice because it was focused solely on child welfare situations. We did a role play, which I normally hate. Today I did mine and was corrected a couple times by the "mom" for using too big of words: "What do you mean by that?" (the interviewee really knew what I meant but wanted to emphasize that I shouldn't use some words on my families!). At the end, it was nice though, because she said out of the 3 "interviewers" she felt like I had created a more comfortable atmosphere and had addressed her concerns so she felt more "comfortable" talking with me. That was a nice compliment because I'm usually pretty harsh on myself during these things.
I'm looking forward to some of the future modules that we'll do (not looking forward to others). Now that I'm working, I haven't really known what to do with this newfound stability. What do people do when they get home from work? So far, I have been watching TV, but I don't want to turn into my mother. I guess I could read. I did that over the summer and enjoyed it. I can paint. I still am teaching myself. I could take a walk. I always say that I need to exercise. I can cook fancier meals. I want to learn how to cook better. All of these options, yet I haven't really known what to do with myself. Weird.
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you could apply to med school. That's pretty time consuming. Plus if you get in then you can avoid the real world for many years to come.
See, if I'm going to waste my time, I might as well enjoy it. :) And there's no chance I would get in. I took two quarters of chemistry... those are maybe the only pre-med courses I took. Now, if you want me to write some of your essays, I am sure I could tap my creative resources and come up with something very entertaining...
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