One week left to go...
One week left to go and the semester is over! Yay...wait should I be happy? Of course I should be--I'm graduating! Don't get me wrong, I'm very happy and excited, but I'm also scared as all hell. I don't what I want to do with my life right now. I think this is the most indecisive I've ever been in my whole entire life. I have plenty of options, but I just don't know what is the best road for me to take at thsi point in my life.
I talkled to my supervisor at my internship and put in inquiry about a paid part-time or full-time posistion there. Unfortunately, they have nothing available. I told her to keep me in mind and to contact me if anything becomes available. The buzz around the office is that they did hire a new employee (Jane), maybe a about a week after Nick (another UWM intern) and I inquired about employment. Nice, huh? We are already trained and are both getting excellent reviews as interns, but yet we are not good enough to actually get paid to work there. This feels like a huge slap in the face to me. If that wasn't bad enough--I received a phone call and email this morning from Lori, one of my supervisors, saying that she added up all of my timesheets that I gave her and says that I still have 29 hours that I need to make up. WTF?! Why couldn't she have told me this yesterday or Monday when I was there? I won't be coming back until next Monday. I might have to contact her and see if I could come in on Saturday or Sunday for for some extra hours. I added up my hours too, and also let the program add them up for me and my hours came out to be right on the mark of what I need for the semester or over that. I don't understand how we both could add up the hours a few times and not come up with the same thing. Arugh!
Oh, and as far as that new employee goes, I don't have anything against Jane, she has every right to work there as much as I do. Why hire someone new though when you have valuable, hardwrking, trained interns that get glowing reviews? Why train someone else all over again? Lori will have to do a lot of training with Jane, because Lori will have to train Jane differently, and learn a brand new program called JAWS that Jane will have to use to nagivate the Iris database. Did I mention Jane is totally blind? Like I said, I have nothing against her working there, she deserves to, just as much as I do. I'm also disabled with a visually impairment, so in a way I know how it goes. I just feel that using JAWS and Iris toegher is going to be a challenge when it comes to training time.
I also found out this morning while checking my email, that I need to fill out paperwork to receive my diploma. I'm so glad I found this out a week before school is over and two weeks beofre finals and graduation! I'm so glad I inquired about graduation ceremonies and if I really needed to attend or not to receive my diploma. Out of all the damn mail I've been receiving about graduation ceremony times and cap and gown purchasing, you'd think I would have gotten a letter saying, "Ateention: Graduating seniros need to fill out paperwork to receive their diploma!" Well, I contacted another person in the social work department today, so hoepfully they will get back to me about this damn paperwork situation! *sighs*
In the meantime, I just need to finish up the end of the semester. Go to classes, turn all my papers and projects in, turn in all my field placement documentation and get ready for the social work and crimminal justice students graduation (pinning-we get HBSSW pins) ceremony on Saturday, May 17th. I've planned to go this smaller ceremony because it will be more personal to me then attendding the huge all school graduation on Sunday, May 18th.
I talkled to my supervisor at my internship and put in inquiry about a paid part-time or full-time posistion there. Unfortunately, they have nothing available. I told her to keep me in mind and to contact me if anything becomes available. The buzz around the office is that they did hire a new employee (Jane), maybe a about a week after Nick (another UWM intern) and I inquired about employment. Nice, huh? We are already trained and are both getting excellent reviews as interns, but yet we are not good enough to actually get paid to work there. This feels like a huge slap in the face to me. If that wasn't bad enough--I received a phone call and email this morning from Lori, one of my supervisors, saying that she added up all of my timesheets that I gave her and says that I still have 29 hours that I need to make up. WTF?! Why couldn't she have told me this yesterday or Monday when I was there? I won't be coming back until next Monday. I might have to contact her and see if I could come in on Saturday or Sunday for for some extra hours. I added up my hours too, and also let the program add them up for me and my hours came out to be right on the mark of what I need for the semester or over that. I don't understand how we both could add up the hours a few times and not come up with the same thing. Arugh!
Oh, and as far as that new employee goes, I don't have anything against Jane, she has every right to work there as much as I do. Why hire someone new though when you have valuable, hardwrking, trained interns that get glowing reviews? Why train someone else all over again? Lori will have to do a lot of training with Jane, because Lori will have to train Jane differently, and learn a brand new program called JAWS that Jane will have to use to nagivate the Iris database. Did I mention Jane is totally blind? Like I said, I have nothing against her working there, she deserves to, just as much as I do. I'm also disabled with a visually impairment, so in a way I know how it goes. I just feel that using JAWS and Iris toegher is going to be a challenge when it comes to training time.
I also found out this morning while checking my email, that I need to fill out paperwork to receive my diploma. I'm so glad I found this out a week before school is over and two weeks beofre finals and graduation! I'm so glad I inquired about graduation ceremonies and if I really needed to attend or not to receive my diploma. Out of all the damn mail I've been receiving about graduation ceremony times and cap and gown purchasing, you'd think I would have gotten a letter saying, "Ateention: Graduating seniros need to fill out paperwork to receive their diploma!" Well, I contacted another person in the social work department today, so hoepfully they will get back to me about this damn paperwork situation! *sighs*
In the meantime, I just need to finish up the end of the semester. Go to classes, turn all my papers and projects in, turn in all my field placement documentation and get ready for the social work and crimminal justice students graduation (pinning-we get HBSSW pins) ceremony on Saturday, May 17th. I've planned to go this smaller ceremony because it will be more personal to me then attendding the huge all school graduation on Sunday, May 18th.