So...
I haven't posted since Methuselah was in diapers, I know. A combination of feast and famine, really. I was getting super pissed/aggravated/frustrated with work and didn't see coming on here and bitching about it as being especially helpful. I was/am getting great reviews but until recently my prospects for making fulltime were looking rather bleak.
Please note the past tense of the previous statement. I was offered a lateral transfer about three weeks ago into the bird breeding area and I took it. So far, my trainer says I'm doing awesome, but in all fairness, it's basically the same thing I did at Silver Springs, without the shows. I get to help feed and maintain the psitticine collection (parrots, parakeets, conyers, that sort of thing) and am even learning to feed the babies that the moms didn't want to raise. And if I do as well as Deb says I'm doing, it'll look just fantabulous on my next interview. And they're supposed to be opening some more positions Nov or Dec, which will give me a nice half year of where I'm at to give them a taste of my quality, innit.
Oh, and I get to go to Dragon Con this year. I was hoping to have my stormtrooper suit all ready, but finances being what they were I won't get to finish that in time.
Next year.
Oh, and get this... at work they've started offering paid time off even for us lowly part timers. A full week of vacay. It's helping to finance my Dragon trip.
Get ready, Atlanta.
Please note the past tense of the previous statement. I was offered a lateral transfer about three weeks ago into the bird breeding area and I took it. So far, my trainer says I'm doing awesome, but in all fairness, it's basically the same thing I did at Silver Springs, without the shows. I get to help feed and maintain the psitticine collection (parrots, parakeets, conyers, that sort of thing) and am even learning to feed the babies that the moms didn't want to raise. And if I do as well as Deb says I'm doing, it'll look just fantabulous on my next interview. And they're supposed to be opening some more positions Nov or Dec, which will give me a nice half year of where I'm at to give them a taste of my quality, innit.
Oh, and I get to go to Dragon Con this year. I was hoping to have my stormtrooper suit all ready, but finances being what they were I won't get to finish that in time.
Next year.
Oh, and get this... at work they've started offering paid time off even for us lowly part timers. A full week of vacay. It's helping to finance my Dragon trip.
Get ready, Atlanta.