Happy Birthday to Melody!
Melody is 4 today. Aw, my baby is growing up.
Life is just blah right now. I'm not happy with work, I need to find a new job. None of us are really liking it right now for various reasons (well, me, Colleen & Kathi). This job is not helping me with my counseling skills at all. The experience will help me with other jobs, especially all the medicaid stuff I'm learning. But, in the long run, it's just wasting my time. I've found several random places this week that I'm going to send resumes & applications to for more residential type case management and counseling positions. I think I'd like the case management aspect of it if I were strictly mental health & adolescents/young adults, like at TCH or other places. So, we'll see. Maybe something will come of it. I feel bad for considering leaving, but I'm just not happy. Every morning I wake up and just don't want to go to work. Mostly becuase I've had NOTHING to do. All my clients are set with what they need. They have various random needs pop up, but nothing serious that takes up my whole day. Yeah, fine, I'm getting paid to do crap, so I shouldn't complain. But honestly right now I'd rather be babysitting or doing some other random job and getting paid the same thing if it's not furthering my career. There is a position at the Guilford Co. detention center, that pays more than I'm making now, which is NUTS. I'm going to send in an application for that. It'd probably be a lot like the Children's Home, but at least it'd be working directly with teenagers and kids & doing some sort of counseling. Ugh.
Colleen and I were talking about it last night, and both of us are just kind of sick of what we're doing, and feel like it's a waste of time a lot of the time. Doing people's work for them, making phone calls, coordinating stuff that other people could just as easily do but don't want to.
I'm going to start working with another little girl, b/c the staff we hired randomly took another job! Rude. She's in kindergarden, so I don't know what we'll be doing. But she's been waiting for services for over 2 months now so I was like 'Can I just do it?' I wrote her treatment plan, so I put lots of fun goals in there, so we can at least have more flexiblilty with what we do. =) And, I can add a goal about exercise or something too so we can ride bikes and stuff. So, that'll fill up my days for a while. ANd, she doesnt live in the ghetto, so I don't have to worry about getting shot at or anything. Always a plus.
OK, gotta go finish making dinner. Grillin' out chicken on my nifty grill tonight.
Life is just blah right now. I'm not happy with work, I need to find a new job. None of us are really liking it right now for various reasons (well, me, Colleen & Kathi). This job is not helping me with my counseling skills at all. The experience will help me with other jobs, especially all the medicaid stuff I'm learning. But, in the long run, it's just wasting my time. I've found several random places this week that I'm going to send resumes & applications to for more residential type case management and counseling positions. I think I'd like the case management aspect of it if I were strictly mental health & adolescents/young adults, like at TCH or other places. So, we'll see. Maybe something will come of it. I feel bad for considering leaving, but I'm just not happy. Every morning I wake up and just don't want to go to work. Mostly becuase I've had NOTHING to do. All my clients are set with what they need. They have various random needs pop up, but nothing serious that takes up my whole day. Yeah, fine, I'm getting paid to do crap, so I shouldn't complain. But honestly right now I'd rather be babysitting or doing some other random job and getting paid the same thing if it's not furthering my career. There is a position at the Guilford Co. detention center, that pays more than I'm making now, which is NUTS. I'm going to send in an application for that. It'd probably be a lot like the Children's Home, but at least it'd be working directly with teenagers and kids & doing some sort of counseling. Ugh.
Colleen and I were talking about it last night, and both of us are just kind of sick of what we're doing, and feel like it's a waste of time a lot of the time. Doing people's work for them, making phone calls, coordinating stuff that other people could just as easily do but don't want to.
I'm going to start working with another little girl, b/c the staff we hired randomly took another job! Rude. She's in kindergarden, so I don't know what we'll be doing. But she's been waiting for services for over 2 months now so I was like 'Can I just do it?' I wrote her treatment plan, so I put lots of fun goals in there, so we can at least have more flexiblilty with what we do. =) And, I can add a goal about exercise or something too so we can ride bikes and stuff. So, that'll fill up my days for a while. ANd, she doesnt live in the ghetto, so I don't have to worry about getting shot at or anything. Always a plus.
OK, gotta go finish making dinner. Grillin' out chicken on my nifty grill tonight.
2 Comments:
At 6:05 PM ,
erica said...
Is there any way to improve your job while you're there? I'm not under the impression that your supervisors are too responsive, but is there any way for you to talk to the people above them, or someone else higher up? It sounds like volunteering for stuff like helping this kindergartener is the right way to go-- give yourself new responsibilities, show them you want more from the job-- but other than that, I wish I had more helpful advice! I hate seeing good people frustrated with their jobs when they just want to make more of a difference!
At 7:02 PM ,
Nicole said...
Not really, I mean this is what case management is. I kind of knew that taking the job, but at that point I just needed something to make money. I had a lot of kids that I enjoyed working with and would have kept me busy, but they all left b/c of the stupid state medicaid changes.
I could have gotten a couple more mental health kids from Colleen while she's out for her internship this summer, but our supervisor decided to put them with someone else, even after Colleen & I both asked for me to have them (and even one of the parents requested that she work with me, one I met back when I first started and was shadowing Colleen). So I don't know what the deal is.
For some reason our agency tends to get mostly DD clients, which is not who I want to be working with. DD clients have issues with learning how to do daily living skills, and how to communicate. MH clients need to learn coping skills and you can see more improvements with them.
I do feel like I am helping most of my clients, even if it is just by making phone calls on their behalf to get them equipment or more hours of services. So it is rewarding at times.
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