I made the right choice, and it feels fucking great.
Working at a hospital has its perks: cheap gym membership, an awesome health-foods color-coding process at the cafeteria, a blood bank to donate to nearby, first hand emails from research studies looking for subjects (who get paid for participating), and friendly staff. Not to mention the presence of doctors everywhere you look, and that comforting smell of super-antibacterial soap when you wash your hands (every 5 minutes).
Everything about this place reminds me of why I used to volunteer at hospitals in the first place. So it doesn’t even feel like work. It feels like I’m volunteering every day!
This morning I will be going to donate blood. I had never donated before for a few reasons: weight minimum not met, recent international travel, or that freak blood disorder that struck only once while I was in college never to reappear. Well, I took all my questions to a VERY NICE girl at the blood donation center who answered every single one of them quickly and definitively. It appears as though I have been cleared for take-off 🙂 It also helps that they have all these incentives to donate, like raffles to trips or T-shirts. Today’s theme is halloween 🙂
Anyways, about the job itself: turns out that I don’t actually work in the IT department! I have finally branched out of that place and moved onto the business side of things. It feels AWESOME but scary at the same time. Yesterday I had a meeting with the IT department and I could recognize everything about it: the cubicle farm, the way people talked, everything! And I finally got it: I am not in that hell hole any more and I do NOT want to go back!
My boss is sweet, my coworkers are sweet, all the stuff I need to learn is sweet, and I am just one tired but happy camper 🙂
Let’s see how long it lasts……. Gulp.
abi