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Tue Dec 8
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07:54 PM
I saw a job posting on craigslist this weekend for MY job. I did think perhaps they're hiring an additional person, or maybe one of the other team members is leaving, but I got the call tonight...I'm done.
I was a contractor/temp, which made me incredibly disposable. I did great work, but recently I effed up and forgot to send a couple of important emails. And I didn't really get along with a couple of people in the office.
I feel okay. I'll find something else. Probably try to do some freelancing from home so I don't have to be around so many people. Also, I have no excuse not to work on my craft business. That's a good thing! My personal work is, of course, very close to my heart and I've been neglecting it lately.
So does anyone else have any shitty termination stories? Anyone else really dislike offices and people and would much rather work in a fortress of solitude?
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07:15 PM
Much obliged!
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06:58 PM
My temp. has been going up and down (high 102.1 last night to 97.5 this afternoon to 101.5 just now).
Is it really weird or is husband just being annoying?
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Seriously, if its not hurting anyone, so be it. On the other hand 12 times seems like a bit much.
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06:47 PM
[www.nytimes.com]
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06:17 PM
Is that incredibly douchey?
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07:16 PM
Thanks everyone! This is all provided I still feel okay in the morning to go in.
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06:01 PM
The Senate has rejected Ben Nelson and Orrin Hatch's abortion amendment! I am opening up a good bottle of red tonight!
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05:53 PM
PS. I love old people, don't have issues with being around fluids and don't mind cleaning. I don't want people to be mean to me all day.
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06:12 PM
With that in mind, it sounds like you know what to expect and that it interest you. So I say why not, if it sounds like something you'll enjoy!
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06:15 PM
That said, I have worked with many, many CNAs who truly get an enormous amount of satisfaction and work for years in the same place and develop amazing relationships with patients and their families. The most love you will get, in fact, is from the families - who generally like and respect the CNAs as a whole.
The nurses you work with will vary.
Also - if you are interested in becoming a nurse (also in demand), it's a good place to start and scope out the profession.
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06:48 PM
I'm a Nurse Practitioner and I went to graduate school with an RN who had a Bachelor's in journalism and an Associates in Nursing and she was able to go through the program to get a Master's in nursing. Nursing degrees are pretty flexible that way.
In New York, you can sit for the LPN boards after a certain amount of credits towards a BSN (I think you still can).
Anyway, good luck - there's lots of things you can do with a nursing degree that's not direct patient care also - administration, public health, utilization review, etc. and health care has been pretty recession proof.
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05:52 PM
from Harper's Weekly:
Uganda prepared to pass a bill that would make life imprisonment
the minimum sentence for gay sex. Under the proposed law,
which gained support after prominent U.S. Christian evangelists held an anti-gay seminar in Kampala, repeat offenders can be sentenced to death and civilians who witness homosexual acts and fail to report them can be jailed for three years.
"We believe there are limits to
human rights," said James Nsaba Buturo, state minister for ethics and
integrity. "We are talking about anal sex. Not even animals do that."
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06:42 PM
ugh
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05:19 PM
OH, AND: If any of you guys are in San Francisco, and know any leads for gigs, PLEASE let me know. I am a smart girl with many talents, and I'm really about to have to go home.
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I think what is even less helpful is that I have to type. I have to use the computer, and I know I could just turn the wireless switch off, but then I couldn't listen to Pandora radio play Liz Phair, Sarah McLachlan, The Cranberries, Sarah Bareilles, Alanis Morisette, Garbage, and Michelle Branch, and I couldn't look at Jezebel! Plus I know I'll just get bored and flip the switch right back on. I also have all the ingredients for making chocolate chip cookies so I could do that and would feel so much happier about that. I'm still in the planning stage of the most obnoxious class's exam, and it is going so slowly.
I'm glad I don't have a rewrite, though. I hate revisiting major assignments and trying to reshape them for the same audience. Is that going to be worse than your other paper?
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04:47 PM
The rewrite will actually be way easier, and fun; it's a short story, and working on creative pieces doesn't even feel like work to me. I really should just go ahead and knock it out, but I keep feeling like it will be better for me to get more of the research paper done first and I just can't make myself get to it; hence, paralysis. And Jezebel.
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What's the verdict?
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03:12 PM
Just to get the ball rolling, here are some of mine (though they arent' cutting it today):
(1) I have a 45 minute hourglass on my desk. I'll flip it, and work straight through, with the understanding that once I'm done I can chillax for the remainder of the hour.
(2) I make mini 3-item lists for my work morning and work afternoon. My goal is to finish just those three things before lunch/going home. I'm good at keeping the list pretty balanced and reasonable -- it's usually one substantive research item, one writing assignment or portion thereof, and one administrative item.
Thoughts? (And to be sure, I'm aware that hanging out in the comments on Jez is likely not a very good anti-procrastination tactic.)
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