Today I have made a big decision in my life. For years now I've felt like someone stuffed me in a jar of peanut butter. I've been the gooey substance on the roof of someones nasty smelling mouth. Not going forward, only looking back.
Yesterday the director lady of the company that I work for had me come in to the office. I thought maybe i'd done something wrong. To add a little back story here, my company has been knuckling down here lately. A lot of people got wrote up for having illegible signatures, of all things! So a lot of my coworkers have been slightly disgruntled. There's one in particular though that was offered a job somewhere else. This coworker was slightly higher up on the food chain though. See where I work we have group homes and individual homes where we help mentally disabled adults. Every house has a lead staff. She was one such lead staff member. Her last day is in February so my company has had to look for a new one. They usually look within house at all the employees, see if someone has the qualifications, been there long enough too, to do the job. Now when the news broke that she was leaving a few fellow employees thought I might be offered the job. I thought they were nuts. Me, responsible? I'm barely responsible enough to have a stuffed animal and even those die! I was proven wrong yesterday when, to my surprise, I was not asked to go to the office because I'd done something wrong. I was asked to take over the lead staff position that was now becoming open. I'm sure that you, the reader(s), probably knew that the entire time while reading this, but I needed to provide backstory. Now to list the pros and cons of this job:
Pros: Cons:
$1.00 more an hour one of the guys that lives there is very aggressive
guaranteed 40 hours a week lots of monthly paperwork (checkbooks, doctor papers)
Kickass job title unsavory employees
weekends off will have to be ready to go in case of any emergency
So pretty much I would be responsible for two gentlemen in my care, 24/7. I would be responsible for doctors appointments, lab work, getting papers to the office on time, grocery shopping, etc etc. Can I do this? More importantly, should I do this? Why was I the one picked anyway? I was told that I always come in to work, and on time, I cover other peoples shifts when asked, I actually ask for more shifts if I don't have enough hours, I work well with all the consumers, I pick up things easily enough. So I was their first choice but how is it that they seem to be confident, and some of you reader(s), when I can't see it myself?
I'm getting a head of myself. I talked to all the people I thought could give me their best help with making this decision and I made it. I'm going to go for it. It would be easy to stay where I am. A lowly employee fighting for more hours. But it would be right for me to accept this opportunity that could change so much in my life.
For a little less dramatic, I got a dog yesterday. A friend of my parents has been force to move and cannot take her dog with her. So she asked me if I could watch him for her. She'll try to find a family for him but was hoping I would fall in love with the dog and just want to keep him. So for now, I'm the owner of a shitzu puppy named Teddy. I was wary of this union but so far he seems like a good dog. He doesn't go anywhere on the floor, he waits for me to come home or just take him outside. He almost never barks, only when I've got food. And the best thing of all, loves to sleep on the bed with me.
This has been a topsy turvy week so far. I'm glad to have you guys with me for support. Until next time.
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