The plan: fall in love
Aug. 9th, 2004 09:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
judecorpWe all know about my plan to like my job, but I think I want to kick it up a notch. (BAM!) I want to fall in love with my job.
When I started jobhunting here, I told all of my interviewers that I wanted to take a job that I would stay at for a long time. I haven't had a job for longer than a year since I left my job at UMaine in 2000. No, really. First I went to school, then I got laid off from the shelter, and then I moved here - all of these short jobs. Ugh!
I never stay at jobs long enough to reap the benefits. For example, I have not had a chance to accrue a lot of vacation and sick time. At my current job, I have to wait 6 months to get vacation - then I get a week. After a year, I get the other two weeks. (We get 3 weeks the first year, but you have to wait to get them.) In the second week, I get four weeks vacation (2 at 18 months, 2 at 24 months)! Then you start adding more days until at about year 6 or 7, you have SIX WEEKS VACATION. That's a lot!
Also, I want to finally stick out a job long enough to really feel like an expert. My last two jobs have ended for me right when I was starting to really get the hang of things. I started to get comfortable and then I had to start all over. I don't want that to happen again. I want to actually KNOW things! I want to be one of the "experienced people."
So now I am trying to fall in love with my job. I never imagined myself as an Early Intervention Specialist, but at the same time, my Bachelor's degree /is/ in Developmental Psychology and I /did/ study Human Development and Education while getting my M.Ed. at BU. So perhaps this is all just falling into place and I'm back in the place I thought I would be when I went to college. I never really wanted to be a nursery school teacher, but perhaps I can become an expert in infant and toddler development. Heaven knows it will come in handy when we have our own children!
p.s. Running around after infants and toddles WEARS ME OUT.
When I started jobhunting here, I told all of my interviewers that I wanted to take a job that I would stay at for a long time. I haven't had a job for longer than a year since I left my job at UMaine in 2000. No, really. First I went to school, then I got laid off from the shelter, and then I moved here - all of these short jobs. Ugh!
I never stay at jobs long enough to reap the benefits. For example, I have not had a chance to accrue a lot of vacation and sick time. At my current job, I have to wait 6 months to get vacation - then I get a week. After a year, I get the other two weeks. (We get 3 weeks the first year, but you have to wait to get them.) In the second week, I get four weeks vacation (2 at 18 months, 2 at 24 months)! Then you start adding more days until at about year 6 or 7, you have SIX WEEKS VACATION. That's a lot!
Also, I want to finally stick out a job long enough to really feel like an expert. My last two jobs have ended for me right when I was starting to really get the hang of things. I started to get comfortable and then I had to start all over. I don't want that to happen again. I want to actually KNOW things! I want to be one of the "experienced people."
So now I am trying to fall in love with my job. I never imagined myself as an Early Intervention Specialist, but at the same time, my Bachelor's degree /is/ in Developmental Psychology and I /did/ study Human Development and Education while getting my M.Ed. at BU. So perhaps this is all just falling into place and I'm back in the place I thought I would be when I went to college. I never really wanted to be a nursery school teacher, but perhaps I can become an expert in infant and toddler development. Heaven knows it will come in handy when we have our own children!
p.s. Running around after infants and toddles WEARS ME OUT.
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Date: 2004-08-10 01:17 am (UTC)amen, sistah!
you are so great with little ones, jude. it might not have been in your plans, but i can't help but feel like you are perfect for that job!
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Date: 2004-08-10 01:45 am (UTC)Of course, if I had an entire caseload full of fishersimmonses, it would be the perfect job! :)
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Date: 2004-08-10 03:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-10 03:03 am (UTC)I started my job in July. In January, I get a week of vacation. In July, I get two more weeks of vacatio. Next January, two more weeks. Next July, two more weeks. That's two weeks every six months. It sure adds up!
I am looking forward to that BIG TIME.
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Date: 2004-08-10 03:43 am (UTC)i always feel like when i talk to you, you totally get me and i have something positive to gain from it. you rock my socks,
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Date: 2004-08-10 07:04 pm (UTC)remember me? I just checked back to see if you made choice. Glad to hear you want to fall in love with your job. Kids pick up on things like that. AND I really think it is such a great service. The people who helped my son, I will love them forever for how they were with him. His speech is amazing now and I give them all the credit !! best of luck!!
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