Well, ok then.

The new hire orientation meeting was almost six (paid) hours today. I filled out the I-9 form – yes, I am an American and can work here – and the w-2 forms and other payroll things are online (!), which we got printed forms on how-to work those sites.

"We". There were three of us there. One guy was 20 something and moved here last week from Madison, Wisconsin – he’s going to be Full Time, as is the other guy, someone a little older than the guy from Wisconsin.

[ a new experience for me; I’ve often been the youngest in the room and now I’m the oldest ]

I haven’t had a "first day on the job" for a couple of years now, and I wasn’t SURE I had the job before, but when they give you that tax stuff and that ID thing, the I-9, well, you DO have the job then, right?

There are a few more things I have to do online, to complete the "Hiring Package", but, I guess I got it, I got the job.

Life Skills Trainer.

That would have made me laugh, in other times in my life, and still does, kind of, but, as I told the interviewer, I do have a college degree, but I did my Graduate studies in The School of Hard Knocks, and KNOW about recovery. Could be I do have something to "give back" – I certainly feel I do need to do something, "pay" something back, or pay it forward, or whatever.

I feel like I got a second chance at life in 1998; like I was re-born or something, after that coma from the car wreck. It’s taken me 15 years to get here from there, and, as I say, "all things in their own time", and maybe it’s time to put that second life to use.

Onwards.

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