Core Dump (Interview, Work, Jen)
Jul. 23rd, 2004 11:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
judecorpThis has been a long day, and it's only 11:00pm.
I got up at 6:30, which probably isn't early for some of you but it is for me, considering that I've been unemployed for a while and now only get up at 8:00 to get to work. But I had to get to Fenway for the interview at 8 this morning, and I didn't know what the traffic and parking situation would be. It ended up that I got there and secured a parking space by 7:40am. Oops. Aah well.
The interview was... okay. I really REALLY want that job, but while I have the Big Gay Background, I don't have any background in domestic violence or sexual assault aside from different crises I encountered in the shelter. (Well, most of my child welfare cases were DV, but I wasn't really working with recent DV survivors for the most part - that's just how their cases got opened. Though come to think of it, there was that one case where I did a lot of advocacy for a mom. Aah well...) So yeah, I babbled a lot, and it was early and I hadn't gotten much sleep, and I think I generally made an ass of myself. However, the woman who interviewed me does a lot of work with a national violence coalition and knows the people from BRAVO and some of the other Professional Queers I knew in Columbus. So I'm going to try to track one of them down and see if she can, maybe if I beg enough, put in some sort of word for me via email.
I completed my first week of work and I think it will be a good job if I have to stay at it. The only problem is that Early Intervention is so different from straight social work, and the population is SO specific (kids under 3 really require entirely different strategies than, like, everyone else) that I worry that I will be pinned into EI forever and ever. And that's never really been my goal, even if it does fuse both of my Master's degrees (Human Development/Education and Social Work) - I suppose that's the benefit of multidisciplinary work.
Jen is still unemployed and it's really really getting her down. When I got home from work today she was really having a rough time, so I cancelled plans to help![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
being_homeless paint her friend's apartment and instead opted to just hang out here with Jen. We were also supposed to go sailing with my mom tomorrow, but it looks like the weather is supposed to be craptacular. Bummers all around.
Enjoy your weekends, kids. Mwah.
I got up at 6:30, which probably isn't early for some of you but it is for me, considering that I've been unemployed for a while and now only get up at 8:00 to get to work. But I had to get to Fenway for the interview at 8 this morning, and I didn't know what the traffic and parking situation would be. It ended up that I got there and secured a parking space by 7:40am. Oops. Aah well.
The interview was... okay. I really REALLY want that job, but while I have the Big Gay Background, I don't have any background in domestic violence or sexual assault aside from different crises I encountered in the shelter. (Well, most of my child welfare cases were DV, but I wasn't really working with recent DV survivors for the most part - that's just how their cases got opened. Though come to think of it, there was that one case where I did a lot of advocacy for a mom. Aah well...) So yeah, I babbled a lot, and it was early and I hadn't gotten much sleep, and I think I generally made an ass of myself. However, the woman who interviewed me does a lot of work with a national violence coalition and knows the people from BRAVO and some of the other Professional Queers I knew in Columbus. So I'm going to try to track one of them down and see if she can, maybe if I beg enough, put in some sort of word for me via email.
I completed my first week of work and I think it will be a good job if I have to stay at it. The only problem is that Early Intervention is so different from straight social work, and the population is SO specific (kids under 3 really require entirely different strategies than, like, everyone else) that I worry that I will be pinned into EI forever and ever. And that's never really been my goal, even if it does fuse both of my Master's degrees (Human Development/Education and Social Work) - I suppose that's the benefit of multidisciplinary work.
Jen is still unemployed and it's really really getting her down. When I got home from work today she was really having a rough time, so I cancelled plans to help
being_homeless paint her friend's apartment and instead opted to just hang out here with Jen. We were also supposed to go sailing with my mom tomorrow, but it looks like the weather is supposed to be craptacular. Bummers all around.Enjoy your weekends, kids. Mwah.
