I do not necessarily NOT want to work for the VA (depending on where and what program) but MEH IDK. There are other place I would prefer and am more suited to I think. Just how it is. The right VA job at the right price could tempt me. There is this job in Utah and you think UTAH right? Only it's actually kind of treed and lovely.
I am gonna
throw my cards in 52 pickup and see what falls down but hey.....
I am SO proud of me I felt like crap mostly but I was like "WOMAN FINISH AND FIX YOUR RESUME." I did it. I JUST need my darn ARGH Social Work stuff, although I must say I have tons of relevant like, courses from undergrad I was surprised. I took a lot of psych but then I just took a bunch of extra classes including teaching 1&2. I got to spend time watching a valiant English teacher deal with bored and rotten students in inner city Philly and well, I took a ton of psych. I kinda don't know how I wound up with two double majors but like SWAR
THRMOE had DISTIRBUTION requirements. Hate that even though I have Statistics I upon my resume. I do NOT have Excel. which I may need to learn. Oy. But like, um, yeah all that,
They also had a pool and you had to pass a swim test to graduate.(The guy who gifted it made it a requirement he was all "Swarthmore Renaissance MAN that's what they are known for.) I did it but late .OMG so many students.....falling in and not swimming and having to be fished out I mean YOU KNOW if you can't swim it's not a sudden spell you cast by MAGIC. LOL .They all got remedial swimming lessons. You had to swim 2 lengths and then tread water for 20 minutes . I did it fine but it sucked.
HAS ANYONE gotten back to me about my log in issue? They have not. I really would like my MSW transcript to back me up because it is a thing of beauty I got like all As. Of course, SW (apart from advanced stats, but they assigned EACH and every person who was assigned that class a TA from day 1. Which was the entire class. They knew how to HANDLE that. Oh I can read research papers but please don't let me get TOO conclusive.) So yeah, apart from Stats one my major was super easy compared to Swarthmore . I mean some of it, I got assigned to like Springfield Hospital one of the oldest mental hospitals in the USA. A lot of my fellow interns were like ALL in fear, but having been on a psycho unit I was just like, "ooooh which schizophrenic are you going to like, assign me to talk too first can it be someone who killed a person?"
My second field placemen was really rigorous. They video taped you non freaking stop.. My very first video tape was this borderline mom, her husband and their 7 children, I think it was." LOL, my field instructor STILL found something nice to say. I got permission from the family (yes, they finally settled down enough for me to ask) to use it in teaching and after they sat in on my MASTERFUL family sessions (they are fairly good) well, then, I like would tell my student their first session would be taped and their eyes got big and I would sit them down and let them know, things can always get worse. They were like, "How did you DO IT THEN?"
I was like, tranquilly, "Lots more video tapes bur like, trust me with families it will take a year of floundering around, useless while you try to remember your theory, Then it all sort of comes together in a BUNCH and you get creative, and good ,and you pray to the heavens above as far as like, the families you ah, learned on and if you don't burn out in 2-5 years and you don't stop learning you get really good.
It's been 20 so it's worth it. I am excellent and whatnot but meh we'll see. I have an AWESOME like, supervisory/senior SW resume now. Those are the jobs I want I have decided, since I will have a SMIDGE of input into the madness and folks below I can be nice to and they will APPRECIATE it. Etc. Guess we will see. Holy goodness dinner time. I am glad I wasted my day doing THAT. Cuz as soon as I get my transcript I can apply for m y top ten jobs (I have them saved in order so it's just cover letters and whatnot.)
Meh. No more Advil for this elderly lady for a.... while I guess? It sucks. Because yoga gonna hurt twice as much.
Oh well time to break out the Aussie dream pain cream and just SUFFER.
Later
Anna