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So, the job is going okay. I am still "training" technically but not really. My first week was more observation with my boss. But I have done all of the evaluations, which is about two per day since I started. Since then I've been seeing people on my own, I just don't have quite a full schedule. I think I'm seeing at least 60-75% of a caseload, which is still a full day, I'm just not doubling up as much as other people. The people I work with are nice and the people in the area are also very nice. Unfortunately, I still don't want to go to work in the morning, it scares me to think that I may never love going to work.
I am suprised how fast I did become comfortable working there. They do use a lot more modalities to treat people (ultrasound, heat packs, traction, iontophoresis, etc.) instead of concentrating more on exercise and education. However, I know it is a lot better where I work than other places. I am in the outpatient clinic and will be covering some hosptial patients about every 6th weekend or so. I'm actually looking forward to the hospital stuff because I think I might like it.
I know in my head that I am interested in working with patients with neurological problems and I like working with babies too. So far, I haven't really seen either in the outpatient clinic. However, I chose an outpatient setting because it requires a lot more thinking and problem solving, which i know i've gotten a good education and should be fairly good at. I wanted to get the most I could out of my education. But there are a lot of times where I wish I had a job that required no extra thinking whatsoever.
So, I hope that some day the place in Dubois that couldn't hire me because of a hiring freeze will give me a call and offer me a job. I just liked the way they do things a little better and they had a lot better benefits. I also have a 45-50 minute drive each way that is gonna get old and be terrible in the winter, so have to figure out something before then.
But really, just the thought of working 5 days a week at the same job for the rest of my life freaks me out. I'm already trying to think up things I might want to try as a second career or what I might want to go back to school for.
I am suprised how fast I did become comfortable working there. They do use a lot more modalities to treat people (ultrasound, heat packs, traction, iontophoresis, etc.) instead of concentrating more on exercise and education. However, I know it is a lot better where I work than other places. I am in the outpatient clinic and will be covering some hosptial patients about every 6th weekend or so. I'm actually looking forward to the hospital stuff because I think I might like it.
I know in my head that I am interested in working with patients with neurological problems and I like working with babies too. So far, I haven't really seen either in the outpatient clinic. However, I chose an outpatient setting because it requires a lot more thinking and problem solving, which i know i've gotten a good education and should be fairly good at. I wanted to get the most I could out of my education. But there are a lot of times where I wish I had a job that required no extra thinking whatsoever.
So, I hope that some day the place in Dubois that couldn't hire me because of a hiring freeze will give me a call and offer me a job. I just liked the way they do things a little better and they had a lot better benefits. I also have a 45-50 minute drive each way that is gonna get old and be terrible in the winter, so have to figure out something before then.
But really, just the thought of working 5 days a week at the same job for the rest of my life freaks me out. I'm already trying to think up things I might want to try as a second career or what I might want to go back to school for.