Where to begin
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 4:55 am
Funny how life is. Make changes, get things going, all is looking well.....then shake and stir.
As some of you know back on May 1st, I began training at my new job as a Juvenile Correctional Officer. Now the training for this takes 2 full months. Well on June 3rd the state announced they were closing three facilities, the one I got hired for was one of the three. So they promptly halted my training and stuck me at the front desk checking in personnel and doing searches, this is because I cannot work with the juveniles if my training is not completed.
Then I waited....
....for three whole weeks when the state got their proverbial excrement in order so they can figure out what to do with the nearly 1000 people they just told they were laying off. So within that three weeks I have been searching for a job, without much luck...well I may have had some luck as people in this area and surrounding are slow to respond to job inquiries (For example the job I got now I put in for it two months before I got the call).
Anyway....I was just informed yesterday that I was granted a transfer to a town 4 hours away. This news relieved a bunch of worries and created a bunch of new ones, such as I have no cash in savings. This is because when I first got the job I had to stretch a two week paycheck over 5 weeks because the new job only pays by the month and my old job was bi-weekly. So when I got my first paycheck from the new job I had to spend it all to pay off the stuff that billed over those five weeks. Anyway I have no cash in savings and I have to move. This will give me only one paycheck to perform the move in (which is feasible considering its nearly a 2k take-home and we don't really have much furniture). Plus the city I transferred to is offering 2,000$ to those that transfer to within the city limits, so I will be attempting to cash in on that too.
Anyway the reason I have not been around is because I have been focusing on my training until the above happened which caused me to use up my spare time looking for a job and now to work on trying to move. All of this has put everything on hold from Paradox to personal projects such as my web comics (Yes I have three in the works now).
So in conclusion I have missed you all and hope to return within the next month or two when the moving and training is finished.
As some of you know back on May 1st, I began training at my new job as a Juvenile Correctional Officer. Now the training for this takes 2 full months. Well on June 3rd the state announced they were closing three facilities, the one I got hired for was one of the three. So they promptly halted my training and stuck me at the front desk checking in personnel and doing searches, this is because I cannot work with the juveniles if my training is not completed.
Then I waited....
....for three whole weeks when the state got their proverbial excrement in order so they can figure out what to do with the nearly 1000 people they just told they were laying off. So within that three weeks I have been searching for a job, without much luck...well I may have had some luck as people in this area and surrounding are slow to respond to job inquiries (For example the job I got now I put in for it two months before I got the call).
Anyway....I was just informed yesterday that I was granted a transfer to a town 4 hours away. This news relieved a bunch of worries and created a bunch of new ones, such as I have no cash in savings. This is because when I first got the job I had to stretch a two week paycheck over 5 weeks because the new job only pays by the month and my old job was bi-weekly. So when I got my first paycheck from the new job I had to spend it all to pay off the stuff that billed over those five weeks. Anyway I have no cash in savings and I have to move. This will give me only one paycheck to perform the move in (which is feasible considering its nearly a 2k take-home and we don't really have much furniture). Plus the city I transferred to is offering 2,000$ to those that transfer to within the city limits, so I will be attempting to cash in on that too.
Anyway the reason I have not been around is because I have been focusing on my training until the above happened which caused me to use up my spare time looking for a job and now to work on trying to move. All of this has put everything on hold from Paradox to personal projects such as my web comics (Yes I have three in the works now).
So in conclusion I have missed you all and hope to return within the next month or two when the moving and training is finished.
