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It's been an interesting past few weeks, since I decided to get a 'real' job. I started looking online at Craig's list, newspapers, etc for interesting jobs and sent in lot's of applications and did a couple interviews. Having never to really interview for a job, as they always came to me, I found interviews akward and a bit silly. Having interviewed lots of people before you would think I knew what they were all about. But I guess I interviewed differently than the folks that interviewed me. I actually listened to what they had to say and based my next question on the information I still needed and not a set group of questions that really made no sense at all.
Of course I couldn't figure out why everyone I sent resume's too didn't jump at the fact that I was available and willing (depending) to possibly work for them. I was humbled, I think. I'm not sure if I totally was or not. I was conflicted most of the time I sent in my resume, trying to decide if I really wanted the position to begin with.
So what did I want after all? Well my perfect job consisted on open hours (work when I wanted to), challenges, interesting work, not bookkeeping (but I would do it if the other parts of the job were worth it), great pay, no commute, no one breathing over my shoulder, my experience respected, open to suggestions. Did that job really exist? Not likely.
So I continued hunting and waiting and hoping that Dan and I could continue the money game until we had more coming in than going out. I toyed with the idea of starting up a business I had before and was pretty well letting people know I was available to do fill in work, or short term work and guess what happened. That perfect job came along. Actually it was always there, I just didn't know about it. I was referred by a friend/colleague and had a couple of phone interviews and whaaalaa, I've been excepted to begin training.
I will be training physicians on electronic medical records software. Once I prove I can learn the software and take a test, I will start the paid training course of 40 hours, take another test and then I go live. I have the opprotunity to do on-site work as well as on-line/telephone work. I set the hours/days/etc. of when I work and apparently there is enough work that I could work 10-12 hours per day or as little as 3-4 hours a day, all @ $30 per hour. I'm excited about being able to travel and do onsite work and they are excited that I'm interested in doing that. The big medical groups that have several physicians can all be trained at one time so they get the biggest bang for the buck. Onsite work pays $600 per day plus expenses. The company pays all travel, hotel, car rental and reimburses all meals and incidentals. So did I find the perfect job? I think so, I hope so, time will tell.
What is the lesson here? I think if you wait, good things will come.
B
