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i'm employed
2008-Feb-22, Friday 05:29 pmI accepted a job offer this afternoon, so I'm once again a productive member of society. :)
I go in Wednesday to fill out the paperwork. I'll be working as a "Technical Support Specialist" at a local Animal Humane Society. About a year ago or so, local shelters banded together to create a common infrastructure to help reduce overall costs. So 5 shelters in the Twin Cities metro area all use servers located at the Golden Valley center, where I'll be working. They need 2.5 tech geeks to fill their needs. I'll be the half-geek.
It's not far away, so the commute is easy. It's only 20 hours, which is great for my sanity. That low-hours time investment will be a necessity if I can get back into the swing of classes again. This job also has a regular schedule and not a rotating shift, so that's another great feature. It's in an industry that I approve, helping animals as much as possible given constraints of human budgets.
As an example of the flavor of the place, here's a photo taken from one of their webpages on training classes for rabbits. I was told that Education classes are for humans while Training classes are for other animals. The verbiage distinction is important. ;)
Rarely do I see a job with so many pluses in its favor. The only downside is that the low pay ($14/hr) and low hours (20 hrs) combined will keep me very poor indeed. It's the equivalent of a full-time minimum wage job. I'm still not certain if I'll be able to take classes during my spare time. I'll find out after I see how much the government keeps of my paycheck. If it's insufficient alone, then I may have to consider another temporary part-time job somewhere to build up funds one semester, then spend it the next semester on classes.
I'm in a much better mood today (after giving them a crowd-pleasing performance on my technical skills test this morning) than I was yesterday (after watching the soul-sucking Human Resources video for the Comcast helpdesk which involved repeated use of the word "stress" in various phrases).
Rabbits for the win!
I go in Wednesday to fill out the paperwork. I'll be working as a "Technical Support Specialist" at a local Animal Humane Society. About a year ago or so, local shelters banded together to create a common infrastructure to help reduce overall costs. So 5 shelters in the Twin Cities metro area all use servers located at the Golden Valley center, where I'll be working. They need 2.5 tech geeks to fill their needs. I'll be the half-geek.
It's not far away, so the commute is easy. It's only 20 hours, which is great for my sanity. That low-hours time investment will be a necessity if I can get back into the swing of classes again. This job also has a regular schedule and not a rotating shift, so that's another great feature. It's in an industry that I approve, helping animals as much as possible given constraints of human budgets.As an example of the flavor of the place, here's a photo taken from one of their webpages on training classes for rabbits. I was told that Education classes are for humans while Training classes are for other animals. The verbiage distinction is important. ;)
Rarely do I see a job with so many pluses in its favor. The only downside is that the low pay ($14/hr) and low hours (20 hrs) combined will keep me very poor indeed. It's the equivalent of a full-time minimum wage job. I'm still not certain if I'll be able to take classes during my spare time. I'll find out after I see how much the government keeps of my paycheck. If it's insufficient alone, then I may have to consider another temporary part-time job somewhere to build up funds one semester, then spend it the next semester on classes.
I'm in a much better mood today (after giving them a crowd-pleasing performance on my technical skills test this morning) than I was yesterday (after watching the soul-sucking Human Resources video for the Comcast helpdesk which involved repeated use of the word "stress" in various phrases).
Rabbits for the win!