EMPLOYED AT LAST! EMPLOYED AT LAST! THANK GOD ALMIGHTY, I'M EMPLOYED AT LAST!
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
I will soon join the ranks of other good contributing citizens in the US!
Yesterday, i officially, or rather unofficially over the phone, accepted the offer of Kaiser Permanente to work for them! YAY! It’s great and wonderful and proof that i AM employable! Who’d have thunk? You have no idea how relieved i am to finally have this whole thing SETTLED. No more sweating it every night as i sit in front of my powerbook, looking at job listings and rejection emails, wondering, “How can they ALL not want me?” All I can say is that job hunting is not very good for one’s self-esteem unless you’re the kind of person who gets call backs immediately and woos the interviewer so effectively that you have a job within minutes. Let me tell you folks, that is NOT me. Well, it wasn’t in the beginning of this process.
In fact, i had possibly the WORST interview of my life during this process. An interview that made me reconsider what it is that I do. An interview that, ironically, resulted in a second interview. Like i said, I just don’t get this interview stuff.
BUT I’M DONE WITH ALL OF THAT! (for now)
*does a little dance of joy*
I did learn a great deal about myself during this process. I feel like I *could* be that person who walks into an interview and just owns them. Ah, good stuff.
So my new job will be training nurses and physicians on a new computer system so that all medical records are digitized and accessible. Wonderful, eh? Not exactly what my degree is about, but i have ideas on how to keep that going. I have my idea for a non-profit that I eventually want to start, though I have no idea how. I’ll blog about that later. I can’t spend all my posting material at once!
So just wanted to let you know that, after 3 LONG months of feeling depressed about my unemployability, i’m back on the job! Woot!
I’m sure it’s only a matter of time til I start complaining about the new job. Ah well, such is life. Thanks for all your prayers guys!
YES!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!
Oh, Kathy! I’m so happy for you! It’s just what you wanted!
(No, stop it with the “yeah, well in 3 months I’ll be regretting ever wanting this damn job” thoughts - this is for a bigger purpose.)
Woot! When do you start? When do you move?
SO EXCITED! Congratulations!!!!
Posted by laura on 03/29 at 08:38 PMI potentially start on April 17 for 6 weeks of training. I figure that not thinking that it’s the job of my dreams and keeping myself levelheaded will pay off when i start my job and find that it’s much more pleasant than expected. ;)
Thanks for the happy thoughts! :D
Posted by kat on 03/30 at 03:12 PMNice quote of the week. You don’t have to cut off all your hair, just get it layered and styled. And CONGRATULATIONS!!
Posted by on 03/30 at 03:25 PMhey, congrats! don’t be discouraged with annoying docs who just want to complain about how much better pen and paper are. you’ll show them.
btw, I feel ya, I’ve had so many rejections (professionally) that I’ve long since lost track. :D
Posted by Randall on 04/05 at 09:23 AMCONGRATULATIONS KATHY!!! I miss you but I am glad to hear the good news.
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