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So in addition to having to get up early for medical stuff that I outlined in a locked post only visible to some people, I was informed last week that starting this week, I will be in the Greek program full time until October when GreekGirl will be returning from her leave. This is the girl whose husband broke his back at work and is now in rehab. As far as I know, he's able to move all his extremities, but I'm not really sure to what level he is and whether they expect a full recovery or not.
So my life royally sucks right now.
I'm trying to look at this as a positive thing, in that I'm in there long term so I can implement some changes that are badly needed in there (and my manager is in complete agreement with me there). I'm also hoping to pick up some more Greek, because if I'm somewhere where I don't want to be, I might as well be learning something. (I believe that's my motto right now).
I just hope that I get used to being there and don't feel the time warp quite as much. I hope that I don't start dreading going to work. It's been such a long time since I dreaded work every single day, and it royally sucks.
I sat down with my manager and we talked about things that are frustrating me about being there and she pointed out that some of my issues (such as the programming issues) are actually because of my background in Therapeutic Recreation. So if we play the same game every single day, I feel like I suck and I'm not doing my job, but it's the clients who want it that way so Frieda has no problems with that. She agrees that different things are good, and occasionally I'm able to do it, but they are really resistant to change and don't like learning new things so it's a bit hard, especially with the language barrier. So at least I know that she's not expecting me to come up with new things all the time. She said since three different Activity people ago (that's going back probably 10ish years), introducing change to the clients has been a problem there. I just find it a foreign concept because one of the challenges in my own program is coming up with new stuff all the time. So if it's okay that we play the same things a lot, then that takes a ton of pressure off me. And hopefully knowing that, I won't feel like I suck so much.
So my life royally sucks right now.
I'm trying to look at this as a positive thing, in that I'm in there long term so I can implement some changes that are badly needed in there (and my manager is in complete agreement with me there). I'm also hoping to pick up some more Greek, because if I'm somewhere where I don't want to be, I might as well be learning something. (I believe that's my motto right now).
I just hope that I get used to being there and don't feel the time warp quite as much. I hope that I don't start dreading going to work. It's been such a long time since I dreaded work every single day, and it royally sucks.
I sat down with my manager and we talked about things that are frustrating me about being there and she pointed out that some of my issues (such as the programming issues) are actually because of my background in Therapeutic Recreation. So if we play the same game every single day, I feel like I suck and I'm not doing my job, but it's the clients who want it that way so Frieda has no problems with that. She agrees that different things are good, and occasionally I'm able to do it, but they are really resistant to change and don't like learning new things so it's a bit hard, especially with the language barrier. So at least I know that she's not expecting me to come up with new things all the time. She said since three different Activity people ago (that's going back probably 10ish years), introducing change to the clients has been a problem there. I just find it a foreign concept because one of the challenges in my own program is coming up with new stuff all the time. So if it's okay that we play the same things a lot, then that takes a ton of pressure off me. And hopefully knowing that, I won't feel like I suck so much.