Angela Verdenius's Blog - Posts Tagged "changes"
Changes & Writing Update
People who know me know that I don't like change. Loathe it. I like things to cruise along nicely with everything I know being 'normal' and just cruising (did I mention 'cruising?)along just nicely. I don't like the boat being rocked. At all.
So I don't know why I rocked the boat myself. OK, I do know why. I did it because I have back issues which were becoming quite sore. So I decided to help my back issues, I'd slide sideways at work and enter the field of administration as a Patient Administration Assistant.
Sounds easy, right? WRONG! Now I always knew the admin people worked hard. I just had no idea the diversity of their jobs, or what each job involved. Such as that every job had smaller individual jobs, and I need to know them all. ARGH!I
I'm an old dog trying to learn new tricks! After 20years of nursing, I could walk into palliative care, medical and surgical wards blindfolded and know exactly what I had to do and how. But this? Learning this admin stuff is like being a student ALL OVER AGAIN! My brain hurts. Really hurts. I have so many notes I take that I feel like I need a freakin' huge backpack to carry it all!
So my plan is to do this 3 month probation and if all goes well, they'll keep me in admin and I can do my one or two nursing shifts every fortnight to keep my hand in. I just have to pass this probation period! Everyone there is so nice and they tell me not to stress, but man- I'm stressed!!!! Still, onwards I forge, plodding along down that tunnel to eventual enlightenment of the job! GAH!!!!
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So all this brings me to the writing update - due to learning the new job, I haven’t done a lot of writing. I'm halfway through the re-edits of the next sci-fi romance. I so want to get it all done asap so I can return to Steve and the gang in Hope Bay.
NOW - I'm not saying it will happen this year, but Steve has been giving me knuckle-wraps on the back of the head, looking over my shoulder, demanding his story be told. So once this current sci-fi romance is done, I may - just may! - have to do his story next. But I'm not making any promises right now. Steve will just have to sit and sulk until I figure this all out!
So I don't know why I rocked the boat myself. OK, I do know why. I did it because I have back issues which were becoming quite sore. So I decided to help my back issues, I'd slide sideways at work and enter the field of administration as a Patient Administration Assistant.
Sounds easy, right? WRONG! Now I always knew the admin people worked hard. I just had no idea the diversity of their jobs, or what each job involved. Such as that every job had smaller individual jobs, and I need to know them all. ARGH!I
I'm an old dog trying to learn new tricks! After 20years of nursing, I could walk into palliative care, medical and surgical wards blindfolded and know exactly what I had to do and how. But this? Learning this admin stuff is like being a student ALL OVER AGAIN! My brain hurts. Really hurts. I have so many notes I take that I feel like I need a freakin' huge backpack to carry it all!
So my plan is to do this 3 month probation and if all goes well, they'll keep me in admin and I can do my one or two nursing shifts every fortnight to keep my hand in. I just have to pass this probation period! Everyone there is so nice and they tell me not to stress, but man- I'm stressed!!!! Still, onwards I forge, plodding along down that tunnel to eventual enlightenment of the job! GAH!!!!
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So all this brings me to the writing update - due to learning the new job, I haven’t done a lot of writing. I'm halfway through the re-edits of the next sci-fi romance. I so want to get it all done asap so I can return to Steve and the gang in Hope Bay.
NOW - I'm not saying it will happen this year, but Steve has been giving me knuckle-wraps on the back of the head, looking over my shoulder, demanding his story be told. So once this current sci-fi romance is done, I may - just may! - have to do his story next. But I'm not making any promises right now. Steve will just have to sit and sulk until I figure this all out!
