A few things...
1. For those of you who weren't aware, Joe and I got back together recently. :) It's a good thing, I'm pretty sure it's a good thing because although we have issues we're working on, I'm much, MUCH happier with him than without him. I'm taking that as a reason to stick with it.
2. I'm officially rejected from all 5 of my vet schools. It's ok, I expected it and the last 2 didn't even really sting. I think they only ones that really got to me were Cornell (because I could have gone to school with Jeremy) and Tufts (because I really wanted to go there). Now I have to get off my ass some more and work on making my application better for next year.
3. Things are being restructured at work, and it's really just making me want to quit. Technically my job won't change because of the administration changing, but the shady and slimy way it all went down is making me feel like just bailing out of there.
Here's the deal...I work for CFG, which is this group of labs that don't do their own research but instead are part of a "core" facility that offers a bunch of services for other labs and universities and stuff. Our main priority is to do work for the faculty members for the university that our core is a part of. My director, Paulette, had this huge vision for our campus and worked really hard to get a brand new building for us with state of the art equipment, and used her pull to get all these faculty members to work on our site under the program name GeNYsis instead of working on the main campus with all the other faculty. It was her passion project from day one, and it was supposed to be this unified research hub where all sorts of groups could collaborate and whatnot. She was in charge of GeNYsis and CFG. But there has always been tension between the faculty members and Paulette...they've always thought that we don't give them the priority that they deserve (even though we do) and they're always complaining about the prices we charge them, even though we do their work for dirt cheap. They want everything for free, even though we can't do that (it's illegal and plus we just can't do the work for nothing, we'd run out of money).
Basically what happened was there's a bunch of faculty members with huge egos, including one who Paulette personally lobbied to get to come here from Notre Dame. Paulette has been dealing with very bad cancer for the past year or so, and she hasn't been at work as often as before. Well, these guys went over her head to her boss complaining about the way things are being run, and basically they're forcing her to resign, and Notre Dame guy is going to take over running both programs. When he got here I really liked him, but now I see that he's just a snake who probably had this planned from the minute he got here. I have so little respect for him now, and now he's going to be my boss. Just makes me want to get the hell out.
Plus, Tiffany got into grad school so she'll be leaving in the fall. Since there's a hiring freeze they won't be able to hire anyone else. So instead they're talking about transitioning this woman in from another lab. One of the most boring and uptight and un-fun women I've ever met. Sigh. I've had SUCH good luck so far...in the 7 years I've been there I've gone through four sets of coworkers, and they were all awesome. My lab has always been known as the "fun lab". If this woman moves in, it's going to suck all the life out of the room. Not to mention the fact that she's going to be passive aggressively complaining the whole time since I know she doesn't want to move to our lab. I should have known my amazing luck with coworkers would come to and end eventually.
Bottom line is that I need to make it my main priority to find a job in a veterinary setting. Most likely it'll come with a HUGE pay cut, but hey, I live with my parents...that's the ONE big advantage to that. I thought I was going to look for something part time so I could still work at CFG for the money and the benefits, but if I start looking and someone needs a full time vet assistant, I'm probably going to think about taking it.
2. I'm officially rejected from all 5 of my vet schools. It's ok, I expected it and the last 2 didn't even really sting. I think they only ones that really got to me were Cornell (because I could have gone to school with Jeremy) and Tufts (because I really wanted to go there). Now I have to get off my ass some more and work on making my application better for next year.
3. Things are being restructured at work, and it's really just making me want to quit. Technically my job won't change because of the administration changing, but the shady and slimy way it all went down is making me feel like just bailing out of there.
Here's the deal...I work for CFG, which is this group of labs that don't do their own research but instead are part of a "core" facility that offers a bunch of services for other labs and universities and stuff. Our main priority is to do work for the faculty members for the university that our core is a part of. My director, Paulette, had this huge vision for our campus and worked really hard to get a brand new building for us with state of the art equipment, and used her pull to get all these faculty members to work on our site under the program name GeNYsis instead of working on the main campus with all the other faculty. It was her passion project from day one, and it was supposed to be this unified research hub where all sorts of groups could collaborate and whatnot. She was in charge of GeNYsis and CFG. But there has always been tension between the faculty members and Paulette...they've always thought that we don't give them the priority that they deserve (even though we do) and they're always complaining about the prices we charge them, even though we do their work for dirt cheap. They want everything for free, even though we can't do that (it's illegal and plus we just can't do the work for nothing, we'd run out of money).
Basically what happened was there's a bunch of faculty members with huge egos, including one who Paulette personally lobbied to get to come here from Notre Dame. Paulette has been dealing with very bad cancer for the past year or so, and she hasn't been at work as often as before. Well, these guys went over her head to her boss complaining about the way things are being run, and basically they're forcing her to resign, and Notre Dame guy is going to take over running both programs. When he got here I really liked him, but now I see that he's just a snake who probably had this planned from the minute he got here. I have so little respect for him now, and now he's going to be my boss. Just makes me want to get the hell out.
Plus, Tiffany got into grad school so she'll be leaving in the fall. Since there's a hiring freeze they won't be able to hire anyone else. So instead they're talking about transitioning this woman in from another lab. One of the most boring and uptight and un-fun women I've ever met. Sigh. I've had SUCH good luck so far...in the 7 years I've been there I've gone through four sets of coworkers, and they were all awesome. My lab has always been known as the "fun lab". If this woman moves in, it's going to suck all the life out of the room. Not to mention the fact that she's going to be passive aggressively complaining the whole time since I know she doesn't want to move to our lab. I should have known my amazing luck with coworkers would come to and end eventually.
Bottom line is that I need to make it my main priority to find a job in a veterinary setting. Most likely it'll come with a HUGE pay cut, but hey, I live with my parents...that's the ONE big advantage to that. I thought I was going to look for something part time so I could still work at CFG for the money and the benefits, but if I start looking and someone needs a full time vet assistant, I'm probably going to think about taking it.