It has been a great week so far

Jun 03, 2009

Everyone that knows me knows that I was laid off unexpectedly along with many others at my company back in early February. I was angry and hurt at the way it happened and all that has happened since then. This week, it seems like things are finally getting better. I am not overly religious but I am spiritual and I pray in good and bad times. Yesterday, with the help of one of my cousins, I had an interview at a hospital in my town. It is significant that it is in my town because this is a very small suburb and I was commuting 2 1/2 - 3 hours a day at my last job (except when I was telecommuting). Anyway, the position is nothing fancy, it is part time evenings as a Unit Secretary at the 1 hospital in this suburb. My cousin and I don't talk very often, but she is a R.N. which is what I am trying to be and I knew that she worked at this hospital. I applied for the job and later called her to ask her who could I reach out to in order to get an interview. Well, she went above and beyond, she first recommended me to her manager and had them follow up with H.R. They called me the next day but I was not there and they never returned my calls or answered when I called them several times. I was going to call her back and let her know what happened but when I came in on Saturday evening after going to see a movie, she had left a message with the director's cell phone # as well as her manager's #. I called and long story short, they scheduled me for an interview yesterday morning. The interview went great and I will be working there in the very near future. I am waiting for the official details from H.R. I am very excited because I will finally have benefits again, this is one of the things that upset me most about getting laid off ~ losing my benefits. I couldn't afford to keep the Cobra and I was lied to about how much I needed to pay and ended up not able to keep it past 1 month. The other thing that happened this week is today I received the acceptance letter for the nursing program at my school. There were over 300 applicants for only 80 spots and it was very competitive. I am very excited because things are finally falling into place. The new job will work very well with the school schedule and if I am really lucky I may be able to do my clinicals at the same hospital that I will be working at. It is very close to both home and school.

On another note, my son is out of school this Friday! It seems like it is too soon, oh well, I will be trying to find stuff for us to get into all summer.

Here is a pic of me before my interview yesterday.

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