When mom says...
As the summer was approaching, I had so many things on my mind. I finished my stats class and got my letters of rec from my professor, my teaching stint ended with the term and I was on break from my current job. During the bit of downtime I had, I inquired about a position at a research lab I've been really interested in. Fortunately, after an interview of interests, bg, processing, I was accepted =). I also decided to do some volunteer work at the Mattel Children's Hospital since I was there so often anyway. So aside from research I'm also able to do something more "hands on" and get to work with child-life specialists.There was a lot of downtime at the lab over the summer, so we're officially starting up again in October as the Fall qtr begins. Now my dilemma kicks in. Since I have a full-time job, I opted to just work at the lab on Fridays and they (the lab) were really wonderful about it. Obviously I had to settle things with my work too. Luckily they were okay with it as well. If things didn't work out with my work, I was ready to quit my nice cushy job for my non-paying research work. Luckily I didn't have to. Least I have some money to pay for the ridiculus price of gas I go through every week driving to LA.
I was in so much worry just a few months back, and my mom was sympathizing with me. She said that if research was what I really wanted, then I shouldn't worry about quitting my current job. She reminded me that I only took this job as a temporary thing anyway and if I was happier with research, then that's what I should do. That made me feel better. So I was set on research, then I got a pay raise. That made it really hard to quit, so I figured I should at least give it a shot and check to see if I could strike a compromise. I really doubted it would work, but it did...thus far.
Now I'm pretty much a work-a-holic with grumpy friends and very little downtime to myself. I almost never watch tv, but luckily my co-worker has been really nice to let me borrow some of his books, so that's been nice. I guess I'm really blessed. Just when I think things are too good to be true, God has always surprises me. I guess I should have alittle more faith.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005
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