Job Hunting

As much as I have loved working at the lovely Olive Garden for the past 4 years, I am about ready for a big girl job now that I'm all graduated and such. I have been looking for a medical job which would allow me to start in the summer most likely. 

I did an internship with Intermoutain Medical Center, and they have an opening, but it's just for 1 year and then I would be back to square one searching for a job. I have looked at some skilled nursing facilities, but I'm not sure if that is the place for me. I love the hospital setting and would love to find a job in a hospital, but it would be really hard to find one, let alone one in which I wouldn't have to work every holiday or weekend. I've been working weekends for the past 4 years and I'm tired of it. 

I've sent in applications to a few school districts, which the schedule is nice, but you don't make nearly as much as you do in a hospital, simply because you are working more hours and more days out of the year than a school SLP. My first interview I had was with Davis School District. I was planning a school district job as a backup option, but as I walked away from that interview, I felt really good about it, which was kind of weird. 

I interviewed with Canyons School District later that week and didn't feel as good about it for some reason. My potential boss was super nice and very reassuring that I would love working for her, but the only option she had for me was working in a junior or high school in which I have little to no experience. 

Even though it may mean working bad hours, I'm still really hoping for the IMC job. Because I was an intern there, I have a really good shot at getting the position, the only problem is that they haven't approved the position yet and it may take a while. The 2 school districts have already offered me positions and are super anxious for me to accept, but I really want to wait until I've interviewed at IMC and they've made a decision. Luckily Ryan was out of town after I interviewed with both school districts so I was able to use the excuse of wanting to talk to him in person before making a decision. 

Decisions, decisions, decisions... I really don't know what to do and could definitely use some divine intervention here in making the right decision. Looks like a trip to the temple may be in order or maybe even a few trips.  

Graduation Day

Wow it has really been forever since I have been on here. I had a girls weekend with one of my old roommates, Jayci, and I got chastised for not writing on my blog enough haha. So I am trying to better about it. Well let's go back almost 6 months to the time I graduated with my Masters Degree. 

I remember walking into my first day of class for graduate school thinking... "There is no way in heck am I ever going to survive this 21 month Masters program... do I really want to do this?" The next thing I knew I had survived my first semester (while planning my wedding must I remind) and my second as a newly-wedded lady. Before I knew it I was a mentor to a first year grad student and then off onto my externships for my last and final semester.

I have to admit that I felt more recognized for my undergraduate degree than this one. We got to sit on the floor in chairs next to the podium instead of in the audience with the undergraduates, but when I went up to get my diploma, I didn't even get to walk across a stage :( . They had 2 lines set up on either side of the stage and they just called names as people walked past the dean to pick up their case for their diploma. It was rather lame to be honest. For my undergrad I at least got to walk across a stage. Oh well, I'm finally done with grad school (well almost I have to finish my last few weeks at my externship first). 

Although I technically "walked" in May, because I wasn't finished my externship until the last week in May I didn't graduate until August 1st. That's ok, I still haven't found a job so I figure I will have a few weeks to have fun and play with no school or work to worry about. Right now I'm really wanting a medical job, but we will see where I actually end up.