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So this month has been.........well it's just been a weird month. Ex-husband kicks the bucket then I get a job working with a patient in her home which I wasn't sure of at first but we've really bonded and have also bonded with her mom and her daughter. Then last week everthing fell into place and we bought our first home (which btw is soooooooooooooooooooo freeeeeeeeeeeeking cool!)
But that's a whole other thread.
So here is the delima part. Now that I've been working for this family for the last month, and I work for them through a home health agency, yesterday I got offered another job. So now to the facts.
Home health job -
Working for a company that only pays me $8.00 per hour, never can get any supplies when we request them. The afternoon shift girl quit and they wanted me to take my shift, 7-10:30 a.m. then split and do her shift 2-8:00 p.m. as well as work my normal weekend shift. Now granted I have been working the 7 day a week thing, but that was only three 1/2 hours during the day and 5 per day on the weekend. Started to work on September 24, we get paid on the 1st and the 15th. To which I thought cool! I get paid in six days. Nope, they hold back. Ok, no problem I think I'll just get paid on the 15th. Gave them the blank check for the direct deposit. 15th rolls around no deposit. No paper check. So I think well, it's the weekend. Monday no check. I call to find out what's up with my paycheck and I'm told that I can't talk to payroll because there on unavilable. To which I said well then I'm just unavailble to work. Quickly someone got on the phone and told me I should get that day which was Monday. I didn't. So hoepfully it will be here today. Basically I've been working for almost a month without a check. Which as you can imagine my husband was not happy about. And over the course of the last 3 weeks I have been saying that if it wasn't for my patients that I've grown to care for, that the company I work for is run so incompetently that I would be long gone. I work this job because I like what I do and the patients I care for. I could work somewhere else and make more money but...... and oh yeah no benefits unless I'm considered full time.
Schlotzsky's -
Many of you may have heard of this food chain. Yesterday I get a call from a temp agency I had applied with and they said Coporate office needs a receptionist which is my trade for almost 12 years until recently getting into health care. They will pay $10 per hour with a raise when I become permenant. Pay my parking which if anyone has ever tried to find parking in downtown Austin....this is a huge plus as well as I'll get a full benefit package when I become full time. I decided to try it out today and am here. The front desk isn't tremendously busy so you can read in down times as well as us the internet
which as you can see I'm taking full advantage of. But there is some boredom with this job I can already see. But it means more money and since we just bought a house..... but I feel like ****e because I feel like I'm letting down my patient that I already built a bond with.
Husband says that's where I'm looking at it wrong. While yes I bonded with the patient, it is still after all simply a job. It is what I get paid to do....well should be getting paid to do. He thinks that I have a family obligation to my family and have to think about them. But I'm finding it hard to do. One advantage I see with the scholotzsky's job is that I can continue my education by doing night classes and since they don't mind if I read here I could always use the time to my advantage and study to get further in my medical studies so that eventually I could quit this and do medical because I will by that time have earned some type of degree that would allow me more money.
So in conclusion..........I feel like a big heeping pile of elephant poo, fell like I've let those people down...just basically feel like ****e and think I may have done the wrong thing. What do you think?
But that's a whole other thread.So here is the delima part. Now that I've been working for this family for the last month, and I work for them through a home health agency, yesterday I got offered another job. So now to the facts.
Home health job -
Working for a company that only pays me $8.00 per hour, never can get any supplies when we request them. The afternoon shift girl quit and they wanted me to take my shift, 7-10:30 a.m. then split and do her shift 2-8:00 p.m. as well as work my normal weekend shift. Now granted I have been working the 7 day a week thing, but that was only three 1/2 hours during the day and 5 per day on the weekend. Started to work on September 24, we get paid on the 1st and the 15th. To which I thought cool! I get paid in six days. Nope, they hold back. Ok, no problem I think I'll just get paid on the 15th. Gave them the blank check for the direct deposit. 15th rolls around no deposit. No paper check. So I think well, it's the weekend. Monday no check. I call to find out what's up with my paycheck and I'm told that I can't talk to payroll because there on unavilable. To which I said well then I'm just unavailble to work. Quickly someone got on the phone and told me I should get that day which was Monday. I didn't. So hoepfully it will be here today. Basically I've been working for almost a month without a check. Which as you can imagine my husband was not happy about. And over the course of the last 3 weeks I have been saying that if it wasn't for my patients that I've grown to care for, that the company I work for is run so incompetently that I would be long gone. I work this job because I like what I do and the patients I care for. I could work somewhere else and make more money but...... and oh yeah no benefits unless I'm considered full time.
Schlotzsky's -
Many of you may have heard of this food chain. Yesterday I get a call from a temp agency I had applied with and they said Coporate office needs a receptionist which is my trade for almost 12 years until recently getting into health care. They will pay $10 per hour with a raise when I become permenant. Pay my parking which if anyone has ever tried to find parking in downtown Austin....this is a huge plus as well as I'll get a full benefit package when I become full time. I decided to try it out today and am here. The front desk isn't tremendously busy so you can read in down times as well as us the internet
which as you can see I'm taking full advantage of. But there is some boredom with this job I can already see. But it means more money and since we just bought a house..... but I feel like ****e because I feel like I'm letting down my patient that I already built a bond with. Husband says that's where I'm looking at it wrong. While yes I bonded with the patient, it is still after all simply a job. It is what I get paid to do....well should be getting paid to do. He thinks that I have a family obligation to my family and have to think about them. But I'm finding it hard to do. One advantage I see with the scholotzsky's job is that I can continue my education by doing night classes and since they don't mind if I read here I could always use the time to my advantage and study to get further in my medical studies so that eventually I could quit this and do medical because I will by that time have earned some type of degree that would allow me more money.
So in conclusion..........I feel like a big heeping pile of elephant poo, fell like I've let those people down...just basically feel like ****e and think I may have done the wrong thing. What do you think?
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