After a year and some change of doing overnights, having said that I was going to start looking for something else, I finally did. The past few months at work have been indescribable...and not in a good way. Over the past few months, Nadine, Tracey, Kathy and Orville have all left the program for various reasons. I won't go into details because it's not real important, and you probably don't know any of these people anyway. Orville's leaving brought about the change though. A change I'm scared to death of. He went to work for a company called Mobius, based out of Damariscotta. They work with adults/kids with developmental disabilities...a population I've never worked with before, so it's a little nerve wracking.

Anyway, so Orville called me and told me that the program he worked at had an opening, and that I should apply, and he would tell his supervisor to be expecting an application from me, after a small amount of convincing me to do it. So, I put in the application. And waited....and waited...and waited. Finally, they called me back and set up my initial interview for this past Monday. I was extremely nervous about it, because I would be going to the interview fresh off an overnight...well, not even fresh off from it, since I got out at 7:30 and the interview was at noon.

I finally got to the interview, and with one question, I thought I had blown the whole interview. The question was "If Client A tells you that Staff B has been touching them in inappropriate feelings, how would you handle the situation." This is a question that I'm seriously torn in my own mind about. My first instinct would be to try to talk to the staff person and find out what's going on. But, Professionally, the thing to do is to call the supervisor, to find out what to do. I told them up front that I was torn about it, and started off with the Talk to that person. After that, I was pretty much picturing them all talking after the interview about how much of an idiot I am. That, and I had to come up with another reference out of thin air... So, I was surprised to hear at the end of the interview that the Main Interviewer (my potential boss) rated my interview an A+. I was even more surprised that when I was getting ready to leave she offered to walk me to my car. On the way, she told me that if my references checked out, she had an opening for me. A really good one, considering my schedule for a year and a half or so. A 7am-2pm (or sometimes later, like 5pm) Monday through Friday job. I have never in my life had a job where weekends weren't required. So this would be amazing! The earliness of the hours I'm not looking forward to, since I'm more of a night person. But, they'll be far better than my being awake until the sun comes up. This would mean No More Vampire Steve. Anything that can do that for me, is better than what I have now.

My boss has known this was coming for over a year. I told her in October of last year that I was having a hard time with the overnights, and so I would be looking for a new job. So far, the job market hadn't agreed with that. So, the timing on this job was great. Especially, since we have licensing coming next week at the program, and we're quickly losing all our kids. I'm not sure that if I were to stay, I'll even be assured a job come January. If I did stay, I'd be looking at a cut in pay anyway. While Mobius pays lower, it wouldn't be much of a change from what I'd be making if I got the biggest pay cut. (I think that's what Claude said...he did the math for me, since I majorly fail at math.) It just makes me think I look a little bad, jumping ship before it sinks...if that's what does in fact happen. But, she's known all along for a year plus that I need to do what's best for me...and she's encouraged me to...(mostly to further her own purpose of getting rid of me)...and she's even gone so far as to wish me luck. (That makes me suspicious that she knows something that she's not telling...like that the house will close when our last kid leaves...which may be sooner than later.)

I have a second interview with Mobius tomorrow at 11:30am. I'm getting nerved up about it, because the whole interviewing thing always gets me scared. I have a hard time selling myself... (Please, no whore jokes!) I've lost a lot of confidence as a worker, since I'm always being called on stuff I do wrong, and never being told when I've done something right. That makes it hard to be able to say "You should hire me because..." And much easier to say "You shouldn't hire me because..."

Anyway, that brings me to the reason for writing this. I thought those of you who aren't on Facebook (you know who you are) should know what's going on...since it's something that will hopefully bring about a big change, for the better in my life. I mention Facebook, because that's what actually inspired this update. I got thinking after my post this morning that I have a second interview tomorrow, that I have a lot more people out there who want me to be happy than I knew. And some surprising people. These past few weeks, with the whole application/interview process, a lot of people have come out to wish me luck. Some of these people, I barely know (people I added for application/games) and some people from school that I wasn't exactly close to...along with former co-workers who are better friends than I realized while they were my co-workers. It gives me hope that people actually do care about me, which is something that I often lose sight of. And it makes me think that maybe for once, things are working out for me because I deserve for them to. But, if I get this job, it'll be, like the best Christmas present I've gotten in about 10 years. (Well, for twice, maybe, since Claude was my for once.) Anyway, I'll keep you posted.