Update (yes, I am still alive)

Feb 26, 2006 15:38

Well...it's been about 5 months since I last updated...crazy I know. Since then I have been working at Wolverine Human Services in Vassar, MI....a job I have come to despise with all my being. I thought at first that it wasn't going to be so bad, I mean, I am helping delinquents right? Well, it wasn't so bad, but what sucked was working a job that required me to be in from 11-8 M-Th, and 9-5 on Friday. So after 3 months at the Clarence Fischer Leadership Academy, wearing a uniform and being called Lieutenant all day, an opportunity arose that I almost couldn't pass up...move to the Pioneer Work and Learn Center and work with abused and neglected children....hmmm....I took a lot of classes on abuse and neglect....yeah, that sounds like a great idea. So now I only work 2 days, tuesday and wednesday 11-8, and get 3 9-5 days....or so I thought. With all the work I have to put in, I am lucky to leave by 6:30 on my 9-5 days, and 9 on my 11-8's. And this last week was a doozy. 9-6 on Monday, 11-10:30 on Tuesday (I had to hold line-of-sight because they didn't have any more second shift staff), 10-9 on Wednesday, 7-8 on Thursday (I had court in Lansing early in the morning, then had to deal with crap all day), and 8-7 on Friday. Most would look at this schedule and say, "hey, not too bad, bet that paycheck is going to look good"....it would, if I wasn't salaried at 40 HOURS!! So...with 55 hours worked this week, and my weeks averaging this amount, I am tired and too stressed out to work with kids anymore. I am looking for a new job, and I don't care what it is, what I have to do, as long as I don't have to work with KIDS!
-C
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