Tiapet
Old Hand
Originally I thought as a little girl all I wanted to do was Cosmotology. I realized that wasn't what I wanted thankfully before it was time to decide. My love is travel so I went to school to be a travel agent or work in the travel field. Ugh! Learning thousands upon thousands of codes and such and things you would not suspect you need to know about airplanes, etc for international and domestic travel (hotels, etc too). I got certified for that but unfortunately at that time it was a catch 22. Everyone wanted experience but no one was willing to give it! Now a days people can do many things for themselves and in the years leading up to it I've done so many other kinds of work on the spectrum from your everyday waitressing/banquet waitressing early on to all levels of clerical work up to administrative assistant/accounts receiveable/bookkeeping.
My very last job was pretty close to, not necessarily a dream job, but an ideal job. I traveled. I would go to the job site and stay all week and come home weekends. I had my room and per diem for meals, my gas paid and was paid very well (for these times) for my work. It WAS very stressful and demanding but I loved it. It could be kind of monotonous as well at times doing the same "type" of thing but it overall was not monotonous since locations and details changed. What I did was go in and audit files for the government at different county cys/cps & juvenile justice locations at locations.
It involved reading through case files to figure out if the county filled out their government forms properly when applying for funding. When doing that you had to figure out who was in the household at the time. It's like playing detective/puzzle solver. Pretty cool. The stressful part was deadlines, quotas/time frames they expected you to do this in (and it was hard since you may have a small file to go through or years of files plus have to go to court house and research documents or locate missing documents in files- sometimes they turn up in random files too). More importantly, some of the stress was emotional too but over time you developed some immunity to it as you read stories of horror of abuse, SEVERE abuse in some cases of these kids!
It truly was a love/hate type of job but I really do have to say overall I did love it!
My very last job was pretty close to, not necessarily a dream job, but an ideal job. I traveled. I would go to the job site and stay all week and come home weekends. I had my room and per diem for meals, my gas paid and was paid very well (for these times) for my work. It WAS very stressful and demanding but I loved it. It could be kind of monotonous as well at times doing the same "type" of thing but it overall was not monotonous since locations and details changed. What I did was go in and audit files for the government at different county cys/cps & juvenile justice locations at locations.
It involved reading through case files to figure out if the county filled out their government forms properly when applying for funding. When doing that you had to figure out who was in the household at the time. It's like playing detective/puzzle solver. Pretty cool. The stressful part was deadlines, quotas/time frames they expected you to do this in (and it was hard since you may have a small file to go through or years of files plus have to go to court house and research documents or locate missing documents in files- sometimes they turn up in random files too). More importantly, some of the stress was emotional too but over time you developed some immunity to it as you read stories of horror of abuse, SEVERE abuse in some cases of these kids!
It truly was a love/hate type of job but I really do have to say overall I did love it!
