Signs of Employment

I’m celebrating my first weekend after nearly 6 years of being unemployed. I just finished my first week working at the Mental Health Crisis center as a Staff Assistant II and I feel fine! All it took was nearly a year of interviews with various Mendocino County agencies before one of them took a chance on me and here I be. After working for some of the worst employers this county has to offer I pretty much concentrated on getting on with the county as I’d had it with toxic workplaces. So far, it looks like it was worth the wait. My supervisor is impressed with my ability to learn new things swiftly and accurately and has already said so. What a difference from my previous experiences with employers in Mendocino County.

As far as signs go, they came the day before I was offered the position on the morning of April 3’rd. The final sign came with a movie we were watching the previous night (The Shawshank Redemption) and about two thirds of the way through it I knew that I was going to get hired. Everything came together and I experienced a moment of clarity where everything I had gone through to get to this place in my life made perfect sense. It all fit together like some giant puzzle and I was finally able to see it. Now I’m starting another puzzle, the pieces of which are yet to be found and fitted together. It’s a great feeling to rejoin the ranks of the gainfully employed and a better one to finally achieve something that I’ve been working on for years. The fact that my work involves helping folks who truly need it is icing on the cake.

Special thanks go to Nancy, who has put up with me during my search for gainful employment and been supportive throughout. I couldn’t have done it without her love and understanding. We’re both looking forward to my first payday when we can rejoin the consumers of this great country and shop until we drop.

Also, Bush still sucks but life looks better than it has in quite a while so I’ll let him lie as usual without comment. Bye for now.