Wow I can't believe I haven't written in this thing in FOREVER! (says "forever" like the kid in the Sandlot)
So a lot has changed since my last post where I whined about wanting work. A wonderful friend of mine from our Bible Study got me a job at the medical office she works for. It's an Ear, Nose, Throat and Sinus office. Or as we say when we answer the phone "ENT and Sinus."
I run the main desk which is awesome. Never a dull moment with phones to answer, insurance to check, and paperwork to do. Plus everyone in the office is incredibly sweet and funny. I can't even believe I work at this place. I am so grateful to God for bringing this perfect job to me. There is no drama or gossip between the staff (which I have never experienced at any of my other jobs before), we get along so well, the hours are awesome, and I could spend all day raving about how great this place is. It's so weird working for a doctor that you can actually talk to and ask questions, and instead of being grumpy, he's happy to help. oooh and another plus is that other doctors buy us lunch all the time so we're always getting good food!
It can be a bit sad at times though because we get a lot of patients coming in with lumps on their throats or necks so half the time, they're getting test results from us telling them that they have cancer. However, the other half of the time those people with lumps find out they DON'T have cancer and then they're super excited.
It definitely an interesting place to be!
In other news, I started taking piano lessons. Which I actually started in Alaska. Oh crap, that reminds me I didn't even post here about our mission trip to Alaska! I will have to write about that later. Alaska deserves a whole post of it's own.
Anyhoo, so now I take those lessons here and have been told that I learned more in 2 months than some of my instructor's students have learned in 2 years! I guess I'm picking up the piano quickly and have been told I have an ear. I can tell when something doesn't sound right even when my teacher can't!
And the last slice of news I will share is that I'm getting my wisdom teeth out on Saturday. Pray for me, I am a nervous wreck.
A post within a post within a post.
Monday, April 4, 2011
I've been neglecting this blog! Facebook has ruined blogging.
In other news, I sent my resume into a salon the other day. They're looking to train a stylist's assistant... which would rock my socks off. For the past few years I've been desperately wanting to take Cosmotology classes but I could buy a brand new Honda Fit for the price of tuition! It's just too much. So this job would be perfect! I love hair! I love styling my hair and get so many compliments on it when I do. Styling hair for a living would be awesome but being a stylist's assistant would be great too. I really hope I get called in for this.
Though I dreamt last night that I was called in for a working interview and when I got there it was a funeral home and they styled dead people's hair. O.o ... it was not an uplifting dream.
In other news, I've been asked to babysit a bunch of one to three year olds at the church every wednesday morning during a mom's bible study. I said yes. I hope it goes well! I won't start until April 20th but I am looking forward to it. I know I'll be nervous but I love being at that church and I love kids. I'm also happy to help the mom who leads the group because she is probably one of the busiest people in the universe... raising a bunch of young kids and all. I have no clue how she always looks so chipper and happy!
Let's see, what else. ... I wish I had a space to do my oil paintings in so I could do a bunch and try to sell them on Etsy or something. I can't do it in any rooms cuz of the cats or lack of space. It would be too hard and too messy to set everything up and take it down all the time. Lame!
I wish it was summer. I hate dealing with bugs more than I can even say but I really miss nice weather. I want to ride to Dairy Queen with Shane on his motorcycle, go for walks with Nicholas and Abby, have cookouts, go to baseball games, and just generally enjoy not being cold. Plus there's no Sunday School during the summer. I will miss the students of course but being free for that hour in the morning means we get to go to the adult bible study instead.... which is filled with a bunch of people that I adore.
It's crazy how much I love our church. I wish I could get a job there of some kind. I would like that even better than the hair thing! I applied once to be a teacher's aide during the regular school hours and even had awesome references but never heard back. I was really bummed about that. Not only would I be at a place I love but I would be doing something I love too.
There's just too many things I love. I need to find a job that allows me to style hair, edit videos, assistant teach, be a travel agent, sell oil paintings... and to do all of this from mission control... which I will have to somehow re-locate to our church.
Well at least I dream big. I just don't get why no one calls me back. I've sent my resume in to so many places. Even to the NWI Times because they are always hiring. I was the editor of my college paper and I was good at it dangit. But I began to stray from journalism because it's such a difficult field to try to be in. Even if you do get on a paper, there's a good chance you'll just be doing obituaries. Bleh!
In other news, if you're reading this and you haven't seen Inception, go see it. After seeing that movie, I felt like I had just watched all of Lost in one sitting. That's how much it hurt my head. But it was still good. I like stuff that makes me think.
Anyhoo, I would like a new hobby. I'm just not sure what. I thought about starting a blog about cars. I think they are awesome but I don't know much about them... which I actually think would be an attractive quality to the blog. I can learn and research as I post. The only problem with this is... Shane would complain that I have too many blogs. Which makes no sense since I only have one now and I rarely post here anymore!
Ok I'm done rambling for now.
Wait, I lied. I joined Twitter! Twitter is fun if you just follow a bunch of comedians and read their tweets. You will literally laugh out loud at least twice a day.
In other news, I sent my resume into a salon the other day. They're looking to train a stylist's assistant... which would rock my socks off. For the past few years I've been desperately wanting to take Cosmotology classes but I could buy a brand new Honda Fit for the price of tuition! It's just too much. So this job would be perfect! I love hair! I love styling my hair and get so many compliments on it when I do. Styling hair for a living would be awesome but being a stylist's assistant would be great too. I really hope I get called in for this.
Though I dreamt last night that I was called in for a working interview and when I got there it was a funeral home and they styled dead people's hair. O.o ... it was not an uplifting dream.
In other news, I've been asked to babysit a bunch of one to three year olds at the church every wednesday morning during a mom's bible study. I said yes. I hope it goes well! I won't start until April 20th but I am looking forward to it. I know I'll be nervous but I love being at that church and I love kids. I'm also happy to help the mom who leads the group because she is probably one of the busiest people in the universe... raising a bunch of young kids and all. I have no clue how she always looks so chipper and happy!
Let's see, what else. ... I wish I had a space to do my oil paintings in so I could do a bunch and try to sell them on Etsy or something. I can't do it in any rooms cuz of the cats or lack of space. It would be too hard and too messy to set everything up and take it down all the time. Lame!
I wish it was summer. I hate dealing with bugs more than I can even say but I really miss nice weather. I want to ride to Dairy Queen with Shane on his motorcycle, go for walks with Nicholas and Abby, have cookouts, go to baseball games, and just generally enjoy not being cold. Plus there's no Sunday School during the summer. I will miss the students of course but being free for that hour in the morning means we get to go to the adult bible study instead.... which is filled with a bunch of people that I adore.
It's crazy how much I love our church. I wish I could get a job there of some kind. I would like that even better than the hair thing! I applied once to be a teacher's aide during the regular school hours and even had awesome references but never heard back. I was really bummed about that. Not only would I be at a place I love but I would be doing something I love too.
There's just too many things I love. I need to find a job that allows me to style hair, edit videos, assistant teach, be a travel agent, sell oil paintings... and to do all of this from mission control... which I will have to somehow re-locate to our church.
Well at least I dream big. I just don't get why no one calls me back. I've sent my resume in to so many places. Even to the NWI Times because they are always hiring. I was the editor of my college paper and I was good at it dangit. But I began to stray from journalism because it's such a difficult field to try to be in. Even if you do get on a paper, there's a good chance you'll just be doing obituaries. Bleh!
In other news, if you're reading this and you haven't seen Inception, go see it. After seeing that movie, I felt like I had just watched all of Lost in one sitting. That's how much it hurt my head. But it was still good. I like stuff that makes me think.
Anyhoo, I would like a new hobby. I'm just not sure what. I thought about starting a blog about cars. I think they are awesome but I don't know much about them... which I actually think would be an attractive quality to the blog. I can learn and research as I post. The only problem with this is... Shane would complain that I have too many blogs. Which makes no sense since I only have one now and I rarely post here anymore!
Ok I'm done rambling for now.
Wait, I lied. I joined Twitter! Twitter is fun if you just follow a bunch of comedians and read their tweets. You will literally laugh out loud at least twice a day.
Dentistry
Monday, January 10, 2011
So how it usually works in the world of applying to be a dental assistant is that you get called in for a regular interview and then if they like you, they ask you back for a "working interview." Which is where you work for a day and see how well you mix with the staff and then they either ask you to work for them at the end of the day or they call you and tell you how they feel it went later.
Well I saw a job on careerbuilder last week for a Dental Assistant position and sent in my resume. I was then e-mailed an interview. Yes, e-mailed. The dentist gave me a lot of details about the position and then asked me questions that only someone with experience would know the answers to. I answered all of the questions and then honestly told her that although I had over 3 years of experience, that it had been a while since I had any hands on experience and that I understand that that may be an issue with dentistry because technology is always changing in that industry. I also told her that I can learn anything and that I have a passion for the industry and loved being an assistant.
Well I thought that she forgot about me because I didn't hear from her at all for a few days. Then she called me today, saying she received 120 resumes and only 20 of them came from people with experience. She said there were only a few out of the 20 who seemed promising and she was really impressed with my e-mail so she called to offer me $100 bucks to come do a working interview later this week. ..... Consider my mind blown!
She also said she understood me not working as an assistant for a while but that it's still good I have the experience behind me and she would be happy just knowing she wouldn't have to train someone from scratch.
Soooo pray for me!
I am nervous and I hope I remember things. When I worked for Dr. Wolff and he would take his annual August vacation (yes, we were off for the entire month), all of us assistants would come back feeling like idiots for the first few days because we had forgotten things already!
But I'm looking forward to it at the same time. If I got this job, the hours would be amazing. 9-5 Mon- Thurs. I would always have a 3 day weekend!
Well I saw a job on careerbuilder last week for a Dental Assistant position and sent in my resume. I was then e-mailed an interview. Yes, e-mailed. The dentist gave me a lot of details about the position and then asked me questions that only someone with experience would know the answers to. I answered all of the questions and then honestly told her that although I had over 3 years of experience, that it had been a while since I had any hands on experience and that I understand that that may be an issue with dentistry because technology is always changing in that industry. I also told her that I can learn anything and that I have a passion for the industry and loved being an assistant.
Well I thought that she forgot about me because I didn't hear from her at all for a few days. Then she called me today, saying she received 120 resumes and only 20 of them came from people with experience. She said there were only a few out of the 20 who seemed promising and she was really impressed with my e-mail so she called to offer me $100 bucks to come do a working interview later this week. ..... Consider my mind blown!
She also said she understood me not working as an assistant for a while but that it's still good I have the experience behind me and she would be happy just knowing she wouldn't have to train someone from scratch.
Soooo pray for me!
I am nervous and I hope I remember things. When I worked for Dr. Wolff and he would take his annual August vacation (yes, we were off for the entire month), all of us assistants would come back feeling like idiots for the first few days because we had forgotten things already!
But I'm looking forward to it at the same time. If I got this job, the hours would be amazing. 9-5 Mon- Thurs. I would always have a 3 day weekend!
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