Just got a phone call and an e-mail late this afternoon, and I've been offered my job at Civista Hospital as a medical scribe. This is clearly very exciting, because I finally get to wear scrubs. ... More seriously it's exciting because it's a fairly neat job, because it pays, because it gives me the option of switching to full time with greater pay in the future, and because it's the first thing in awhile that's clearly gone "right" in the little mental outline/plan I have for myself.
All that said, it will be very difficult to set this up with surgery this coming Tuesday. I'll probably have to make a lot of phone calls, and ask for delays and postponements very nicely. I'm not entirely sure how that will work out, but I am pretty sure it will work out. So I'm just going to be happy for now, knowing that the job itself came through for me.
Friday, July 22, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Interview Day
The scribe interview took place this afternoon and seemed to go well. It didn't go badly, at least, for whatever that's worth.
I'm supposed to find out if I get an offer in the next week or two, I believe. If I do get an offer, I might have some problems trying to set up the beginning of my job training in light of the surgery I'm having on my shoulder next week. But I won't trouble myself over that unless I actually do get the job.
If I do get the job, and if I do make it to to training, I heard that I can switch to full-time later easily enough. If I do that the pay goes up a tiny bit, and I get some other little benefits. Nothing really important, probably just 10 dollars an hour to 12. But I'll take it if it comes to that.
Hopefully it goes well. Everything that needed to get done got done, so we can only wait and see now.
I'm supposed to find out if I get an offer in the next week or two, I believe. If I do get an offer, I might have some problems trying to set up the beginning of my job training in light of the surgery I'm having on my shoulder next week. But I won't trouble myself over that unless I actually do get the job.
If I do get the job, and if I do make it to to training, I heard that I can switch to full-time later easily enough. If I do that the pay goes up a tiny bit, and I get some other little benefits. Nothing really important, probably just 10 dollars an hour to 12. But I'll take it if it comes to that.
Hopefully it goes well. Everything that needed to get done got done, so we can only wait and see now.
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Transcripts
Some good news. I went down to get the post-grad transcripts I need the other day and, while I couldn't pick them up directly (they have to be mailed over) I was able to find out that the "blank" grades I was seeing on my computer were a random fluke cause by who knows what, and my actual transcript does have the grades on it. That's a nice break for me - I have no idea how I'd have dealt with an empty transcript, but I'm sure it wouldn't have been fun or easy.
If all goes as it should, they'll be mailed out this Tuesday, and I'll receive them in time for my interview. In the worst case scenario, I'll at least be able to bring the duplicate request forms to show that I asked for them in a timely manner, and they're being mailed out (and I'll have my undergrad transcript on hand as well). So things are looking good.
The only other thing I have to do prior to the interview is find the names/contact info of three people/companies/hospitals I've worked for to put on the (second? continued?) application. That shouldn't be too hard though.
If all goes as it should, they'll be mailed out this Tuesday, and I'll receive them in time for my interview. In the worst case scenario, I'll at least be able to bring the duplicate request forms to show that I asked for them in a timely manner, and they're being mailed out (and I'll have my undergrad transcript on hand as well). So things are looking good.
The only other thing I have to do prior to the interview is find the names/contact info of three people/companies/hospitals I've worked for to put on the (second? continued?) application. That shouldn't be too hard though.
Friday, July 1, 2011
I'm Back in Town (Briefly)
I'm not done with my set of short trips yet, but I'm home for a few days in between two for the 4th of July.
The date of the interview has been set for July 19th, so I'm excited about that. I'm fairly anxious too, both because it would be great to get the job and because I don't really have a good "back-up" job plan at the moment. I don't like the group format of the interview, but I'll just go and do my best. I'm entirely sincere about wanting to work there, and feel I'm entirely qualified, so hopefully it will go well.
I do need to get a transcript copy prior to the interview. I'm going to go attempt to do that today (for my post-grad transcript - I already have several undergrad transcripts on hand). I'm worried over that, because the computer isn't showing grades on my transcript anymore.... which is both odd and problematic. We'll see what happens when I talk to people in person though.
Lastly, I need to start really studying for the MCAT, regardless of whether I take it in September or move it up (yet again.... tragicomically) because of the surgery I'm having in late July/August (I anticipate I'll be on painkillers, and won't be able to study all that well with them). I need to really /do/ something though, instead of just talking about doing something. It's been far to easy to push acts into speech. Maybe this blog has contributed to the problem a bit by giving me an easy outlet to talk about what I "want" to do. But yeah. I need to get very serious about actually doing right now.
The date of the interview has been set for July 19th, so I'm excited about that. I'm fairly anxious too, both because it would be great to get the job and because I don't really have a good "back-up" job plan at the moment. I don't like the group format of the interview, but I'll just go and do my best. I'm entirely sincere about wanting to work there, and feel I'm entirely qualified, so hopefully it will go well.
I do need to get a transcript copy prior to the interview. I'm going to go attempt to do that today (for my post-grad transcript - I already have several undergrad transcripts on hand). I'm worried over that, because the computer isn't showing grades on my transcript anymore.... which is both odd and problematic. We'll see what happens when I talk to people in person though.
Lastly, I need to start really studying for the MCAT, regardless of whether I take it in September or move it up (yet again.... tragicomically) because of the surgery I'm having in late July/August (I anticipate I'll be on painkillers, and won't be able to study all that well with them). I need to really /do/ something though, instead of just talking about doing something. It's been far to easy to push acts into speech. Maybe this blog has contributed to the problem a bit by giving me an easy outlet to talk about what I "want" to do. But yeah. I need to get very serious about actually doing right now.
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