This week Holly began orientation for her new job. Yes, that’s right. Holly has re-entered the workforce. This time though, instead of playing with surgical tools, she gets to play with real live people.
Let me start at the beginning. A few weeks back, Holly found a job posting for a LPN in the psych ward at a hospital in Ogden. It was a part time position and she was itching to start using her nursing abilities so she applied, interviewed, and got the job.
The job will be good for a few reasons. First, Holly will have better benefits than I do which is never a bad thing. It’s also an IHC facility which we learned from her stint at LDS Hospital is just plain awesome. (They treated her really well when she worked for them before.) They will also work around her school schedule which will allow her to finish her last semester of nursing school, become a RN, then move to a different department (hopefully labor and delivery.) Probably the best part though is that she’ll get experience in a medical field. Sure, she could go to work at a nursing home but who wants to do that when you can work in a psychiatric ward?
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Holly, Work | Jeremiah, August 13, 2008 9:33 am | 
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Since Holly finished up her first year of nursing school on Wednesday, she thought that it would be fun to go on a little vacation during her week and a half break. You see, she starts her RN year next week and wanted to do more than just sit at home doing nothing during her time off. I agreed with her and so the planning began.
Since neither of us had ever been to Zions National Park or Bryce Canyon National Park, we decided that we should take a road trip through Utah and enjoy some of the beautiful scenery that this state has to offer. We booked our hotels and I told my boss I was leaving for a few days, then we loaded up the van and started driving.
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Ever since I was a kid, I have enjoyed watching snow fall. I always remember my mom and I watching people try to drive their cars up the hill that we lived on, only to fail and end up walking the rest of the way home. I learned my lesson early on and would usually park at the bottom of the hill and just walk the whole way. It was easier and safer.
Yesterday we had a snow storm while I was at work. It dropped somewhere around 4 inches at my office. Not only was it snowing, it was also very windy. At times, the snow was actually falling up. All of the blowing didn’t do much for accumulation but it made for quite a spectacle.
I finished my first week at Centercode this afternoon. It was a short week due to the holiday tomorrow and it felt even shorter than it actually was. After three days it would appear as though I have found the perfect job. I like what I do, the commute is very reasonable, and I like the guys that I work with.
I’m gonna keep this short because I’m tired and I’m trying to get caught up on episodes of Chuck, but my job is awesome. So far I’ve spent time playing a video game that was part of a beta test, gotten a sweet Bluetooth keyboard and mouse to go with my company provided laptop, and caught myself up on some TV shows. We have a server full of music and movies/TV shows that we watch on lunch.
Today I quit my job at Harmons. Actually, today was my last day. I quit last Wednesday.
I decided to leave for a few reasons. The first is that I didn’t feel like I belonged there. I came from an OK job where there was a very strong feeling of camaraderie. At Harmons, the job was good but I didn’t feel the same friendships with my coworkers and I missed that. I don’t think that it’s anything that I did or anything that other people did. I think that it’s just how my personality meshed with other people’s personalities. Everybody was friendly and I felt like a lot of people liked me but something was missing. I don’t know if I was ever fully accepted by some of the people that I worked with and this usually led to me feeling like the odd man out. In order to deal with that feeling, I just worked that much harder. Fortunately, I like fixing computers.
With Holly in nursing school, there is a lot of stress in our home. As you might imagine, with three children, two dogs, a job, and school, plus a husband that works full-time and also goes to school, Holly was feeling a bit stressed.
Holly’s stress has been magnified with the start of clinicals last week. The fact that she’s doing clinicals isn’t what’s stressful, it’s the homework that associated with them that causes problems. She finishes her clinicals on Friday afternoon and then has approximately 48 hours to complete 40 hours worth of homework. That’s in addition to all of the other studying/homework that she has to do during the rest of the week. The cycle then starts over again on the following Thursday.
Over the past week, I’ve been thinking long and hard about staying at Unisys on a part-time basis. I had it in my mind this morning that I would not stay. I decided that I don’t want to have to get up way early anymore. I also did a 14 hour day yesterday with school and work. The idea of adding a few more hours to that or getting up very early the next morning doesn’t appeal to me.
On my way to work this morning, I decided to stop at Unisys, turn in my badge, and let my supervisor know that I wouldn’t be back. After I entered the building, I knew that I didn’t want to work there anymore. I learned a lot and enjoyed my time there. It was a good job that treated me well but I know that my time is done.
I have a dilemma. I’m apparently very loved at Unisys. Ever since I gave notice that Friday would be my last day, I have been approached by everybody from team leads to supervisors to the manager of the call center asking me to stay, even if it’s only for a few hours a week.
I was talking to Holly and she thinks that it’s a good idea. I can go to work before going to work. This way, I’ll end up missing the morning commute. Plus the money that I’ll earn will be nice. My supervisor has told me that I can set my start time as late as reasonable so that I can keep my third-shift differential pay. She’s also told me that she’ll basically let me pick what days I work. I think that I can get away with doing as few as two days per week for a total of about 5 hours.
