Job Hunting

It's suddenly very cold here where I live. We went from about 60 degrees on Sunday to snow Monday and currently it is only 8 above Fahrenheit. It seems the weather finally got the memo that it's November and it should get with the end of the year program.

This is a random post, at least I'm in a good mood this time. I figure I should post sometimes when I'm not upset or mad or something like that. Currently I'm typing while my husband is watching Minecraft UFC videos on Youtube. We should both be working on job hunting, but neither of us really wants to.

You see, job hunting is not easy for either of us. He's only had one job and it's not helping him get anything new. I've had several jobs but only the last one really means anything in terms of a career. I won't go into my various jobs though.

Another issue that I have is my current job is the only one that I have stayed at for over a year. This is actually because most of my jobs have been tourist places that have a specific season and hire based on a contracted basis. Those kids of jobs usually last about a month, though the fair job I did once was only for eight days.

My current job is a really hard job to really stay in. If you stay in it you have to find some way to stay on the surface and not get in too deep. If you get in too deep it becomes really difficult to want to stay. Part of my issue is that I have no set schedule. I sort of have one currently but that is changing suddenly.

For example, while writing this post I got a phone call from a co-worker asking me to come in at 6 MST. I take this to mean that for whatever reason she doesn't want to finish her shift (possibly to go drinking). This particular place has been having an extra staff in the evening which is where my steady hours have been coming from. I don't think that what I'm coming in to do is part of that because she wants be to stay until her shift would end.  It could be that it is the extra staff.

I work in therapeutic group homes as "relief" staff, that's basically like a substitute teacher. I go in when people need me, but I could say no. I didn't this time because there's some stuff I would like to learn about what's going on in that house. Working in mental health is very hard, especially since mine are all kids.

I'm trying to get out of this field, not really because of the kids, but because of the staff. The staff issues with this field are crazy. It's not fun and makes working with the kids difficult because of our own inconsistency between staff. It then makes it even harder for the relief staff who can come in in the middle of some crazy situation and make everything worse.

So much for the happy post. Maybe next time I can not be interrupted and not go astray.