Job News!

I officially have a job! I am a Residential Aide for Harbor House Ministries. This is an adult foster care facility that has 3 homes with 12 residents in each home. The residents are severely, & multiply impared. I will be doing personal care of them. I have to get some training which they will pay for but I think I will be able to do well at it. I'm mainly working 6-10 a.m. & every other weekend. We aren't thrilled about the weekend hours but then again, it is better than nothing in this economy. It is only 15-20 hours to start with. Training is paid at minimum wage but then I'll be getting $9.50/hours which isn't too shabby. (It's more than I was getting for decorating cakes.) Mom, I hope you don't mind some babysitting while you are here during Spring Break while I get some training in. I have to work classes around their schedules & I have to have everything complete in 60 days.
The kids are a little disappointed that this came through & we haven't heard from the Christian radio station about the morning co-host position. Actually, I talked to the director of the station last Saturday at the AWANA games. He said that they had received 105 resumes and so far had only gotten through 80 of them. They were hoping to go through the remaining 25 this week. The only thing is we don't know if mine was among the first 80 and they weren't interested or if I'm among the last 25 and might still get called. I told the kids that I will still pursue that position if they call me for an interview but that I wasn't turning down a "sure thing" for a "slim chance".
Now we just have to get a second car by Tuesday because there is no way to tackle this without a second vehicle. We know that God will provide & we do know of a couple of possibilities but haven't gotten anything definite yet.

Dateline

There is a special 2 hour Dateline tonight on NBC that deals with a family from West MI. It is about Mistaken Identity the family that found out their college daughter was alive & mistaken for a classmate for 5 weeks. This all happened 2 years ago with students from Taylor University in IN. The families were from MI though. They are strong Christians and have written a book about the experience. If you can't catch Dateline, you can probably find the Today Show interviews on their website because Matt Laur interviewed both families for the last 2 days.
There was also an interesting show on CNBC a week or so ago on a show called American Greed. It was all about CyberNet Engineering and Barton Watson. Mark used to work for this crook. We seriously suspected something was crooked but not as bad as it was & definitely didn't have any proof we could take to authorities. We sort of wish we had taped the episode but hindsight is always 20/20.

Some prospects

Well, I have a little update on the job hunt. I did a typing test for Spectrum Health where I am still up for a Registration Specialist position. They were looking for the typing speed of 35 WPM and I had a 43 WPM. Now that I have that on file it may help my apps get more attention there.
Also, I had placed an application at a place called Harbor House Ministries on Monday. They had a posting on a bulletin board at church. It would be for a Resident Aide position as this organization has 3 long-term homes for developmentally & physically handicapped people. I received a call to go for an interview there tomorrow morning. The posting said that they had 6 full-time positions but they asked if I was willing to consider part-time. I said that I would consider it but it is a bit of a drive there so I'm hoping that they are still talking about 8-10 hour shifts instead of 4 hour shifts. We'll just have to see how it goes. How do you dress 1 level above scrubs?

Same old...

Nothing much new to report here. I'm still looking for a job. I have several applications and resumes out but haven't gotten any interviews. The kids are busy with school. Lots of projects to work on and, of course, with March being reading month, pushing for lots of minutes reading for a competition at school.
Mom was here last weekend. We had a nice visit with her. She stayed with the boys while Rachel, Mark, & I went to a church ministry conference Friday night & Saturday. She also went to an opthamologist while she was here. She wanted a second opinion & that's not possible in Alpena. He put her on some drops & ointment. She has to follow up with him in a month which is fine by us since she has to come for Joshua's birthday breakfast about then anyway.
Well, it is time for me to go get the kids. I just wanted to let everyone know we are fine. No major illnesses or injuries lately & really nothing new to report.