Dear Job Gods, I am counting on you with all my heart and soul to help me find an appropriate job, with great mentorship so I can expand my learning horizons, a job that will help me grow as an occupational therapist and person, and a job I will look forward to going to each day. This would most likely be in an inpatient pediatric setting, ESPECIALLY with the babies. Job Gods, I've worked extra hard these last few years to get merit-based scholarships, keep a 4.0 GPA, be in honor societies, volunteer a lot, socially network, get published, share my passion of OT with the world at large, and I like to think that means I won't have to work somewhere completely random, but maybe it's time I have a rude awakening to the suckiness of the real world, I don't know. Anyway, job gods, thanks for listening to me, I have faith that you will help me find the right job in the right place at the right time! Love, Karen, Almost an OT.
I'm not going to give up hope that writing on this blog for TWO YEARS still hasn't made me job connections!!!! Because that would be a failure of social networking, and we can't have that!! DO YOU HEAR ME! ::whimpers:::
Anyway. Been studying a lot for boards- trying to retain spinal cord injury levels, dyspnea/angina levels, primitive reflexes, obscure types of muscular dystrophy, decubitus ulcer stages, cardiac rehabilitation MET levels, etc etc etc, in my head. Lots more to go.
Not a lot going on - trying to stay healthy and sane while also studying a lot. So far it seems to be going pretty well. Right now I'm waiting on my classmate Virginia to bring over her cat, Marley, for a playdate. We've compared cats and both of ours seem to have Aspergers so we'll see if they get along. Both of them will walk right up to other cats/dogs and be like, what up? As the other cat/dog goes WHAT THE HELL. So maybe introducing the two of them will be a match made in heaven. Marley & Lester, BFF4EVA.
It probably won't go as well as we hope, but it will be short anyway because we both need to study.
Most of the rest of the day is studying, and I may go to Assisted Living Bingo tonight to loiter with my elderly homies. That is all.
1 comments:
I know that you are super interested in inpatient peds w/babies but typially in most settings like that some experience is required. I hate to be a downer, but when I was a new grad I had the same goal as you. I knew I wanted peds preferably NICU. After looking for a job for several months and several applications online later I learned that most don't even look at your resume unless you have two years experience IN peds. So I started getting that experience, I started at a school district for two years, then outpatient peds (a children's hospital STILL didn't want me! Go figure!) finally after another few years I had the experience and got the first job I applied for. Most children's hospitals are fast paced, very challenging, and ever changing. They are not only dealing with a child with a serious illness but also their families- and it is the family that expects EVERYONE in that hospital to be at the top of their game. For that reason, I think many only consider applicants that have a greater knoweledge base and more hands on experience.
I hope that I am wrong and you are able to find the dream job you are looking for. But I hope that you realize that taking the long road to get to that dream job is okay too. You will be thankful in the end to have some experience under your belt when you are questioned incessantly by the families of the babies you want to help that you know the answers and how to best help them through a really tough time in their lives. :)
Good Luck! Kristen
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