Take it as it comes

 Well.

As a matter of fact, that did not work into full time work.

Most of the month, I was given to understand that full time hours would begin the last week of October.

And, last week, I did get over 40 hours.

Zero this week, so far.

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A client is leaving one house, and they’ll be overstaffed, and they found one guy work, at "my" house, and, it kinda sucks to be "the new guy".

Zero hours for me, but 40 for that other guy.

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So it goes.

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Well, I am "on-call" and just answered the phone and got a couple of graveyard shifts at some other house I’ve never worked at before.

It adds up to make me a better Direct Service Professional, right?  Experience.

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I had the feeling that working in The Gorge was not going to be long-term; it was too "good".  Like, wish-fulfillment.  That very rarely happens for me; I got a lot of teasers but then it’s back to the same old same old.  I was getting to drive on The Old Highway into the Gorge every day.  I was driving their Subaru Forester places.  It was a low-stress position.  Everyone seemed to like me, and were surprised to hear I wouldn’t be there.

The medication is running out; VocRehab closed my case last week.

K* says the whole point of them helping me was to get me full-time work, on a reliable schedule, and she says I should call them back and tell ’em it hasn’t worked out that way.  Two days of work a week won’t pay for the car.  It’ll pay the rent, which is too low to mention, but only just, and without the car, I am screwed.

Takin’ it as it comes.

I don’t think I have much choice in the matter, it is what it is.

Kind of sucks though.

 

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