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I lost my job today. I guess it wasn’t even a job, this was only the third day of training. You see in order to actually work for the company you have to understand how to look for things that a customer would want and you are supposed to do it fairly quickly. I thought I had the entire nine days that the training was supposed to happen to learn how to do this. So when the trainer said that we would be having a test today and that if we didn’t pass the test with an 85% or better the job would be terminated, I was shocked. I ended up getting a 75%. If I had gotten two more questions right I would have stayed in the class.

I’m really pissed off right now. So I’m not going to write anymore…

Yesturday was my first day of training for my work with the NTI (National Telecomunication’s Institute) and the IRS (I think you know who they are). I was really, really nervous not only about having the job and going through training, but having to do a phone conference. And at first I screwed it all up…

The email about the job said to call at 10 am MST. Not knowing that MST means moutain standard time, I called them at my 10am, eastern standard time. Well you can probably guess what happened. At first I logged into the room all by myself, but then I would get the operators voice telling me that “if I’d like to make a call…” I was so confussed! Talk about getting off on the wrong foot! I could have slept in later!

Ugh, but when I finally got into the conference TWO HOURS LATER, I found I had no worries. Frankly, I was the smartest one their. When I signed up for this job, they told me I should have good computer skills. They even tested me using yahoo! instant messenger. Well aparently they lied or only did the test on me or something, because it seemed like no one else in the room knew anything about computers! Some of them didin’t even have yahoo! instant messanger! I want to know how that happened!

Still, the actual job seems complicated. I will be taking orders from people who want tax forms, and writing up the orders in a spread sheet. I hope I can do it right, because I was actually able to get through the four hour class…even if I had to wait THIRTY MINUTES for people to catch up. After that fee ass co (hey, you spell it then!), we found we were FORTY FIVE MINUTES behind schedule and had to do homework. Grrr..

But I couldn’t be happier at the fact that I have a job. I thank OVR (office of vocational rehibilitation) for helping me out. If you are disabled and want a job, you should really look into them. But for now I am going to go, I have work in nine hours. At least it’s not seven like I thought it was before!

I have a job! Sometimes miracles do happen!

I got a job and the training starts on the 16th! I’m so excited. I know that many people will consider a job that you can do while sitting at home in your underware not to be a job at all, but consider this: I will be working for the IRS, taking customer service phone calls. The job pays 10.66 an hour! Finally! There are still some worries, however. I never know how my RSD is going to treat me on any given day, and two hours on the telephone in front of my computer just might be too much for it. After all, if I hang my leg for too long, well actually, not very long at all, but anyway if I hang my leg like most people do in a cross legged position, my foot begins to swell. Another thing that could bother it is the fact that typing has been known to cause my fingers to swell

Damn it I can’t think bad thoughts like this! I’m simply going to give it all I’ve got and nothing more. This job would mean so much for me, money in my wallet that was actually mine, christmas presents that I actually paid for. It would be the first time in a long time that this actually happened, and I’m going to go for it!

And I’m supper excited. And yet there is still that nagging voice in the back of my head. The voice that says the RSD is going to get to me and I’m not going to be able to do it. I mean look at how swollen my hands are today after only doing a little bit of writting…and look at how tired I was after just going to a party for four hours. What if I have to work the day after I try something like that?

Grrr….I gotta stop saying what if. I mean, there are really good things about this job. At $10.66 an hour, I could buy some nice presents for my family this christmas. I could even start knocking some things off my 36 things by saving for a house, or paying for some of the things that Fighting “4” Us needs instead of always being strapped for cash. Yea. This could really work.

But…

I took a technical test the other day (although anyone who uses a computer once a week would pass the test) and I already passed the other test, so the guy who asked the questions on the technical test said as long as my background check goes through, I have the job!!!! YEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEY

I have never heard of so many steps to try to get a job as I have had to do to get the job I am applying for right now. I have to go through a background check, and training, and wait forty five days for the background check to go through, and find stuff at the store…

Grrr..I just want a job people! Is that so much to ask???

So I thought I found a way to finally have a job right. Wrong! I mean talk about jumping through hoops! First I had to apply for OVR (Office of Vocational Rehibilitation) then I had to wait the 60 days to see if they would approve me. Then, after meeting them and finding out their actually are ways for me to work, I had to ask my lawyer if I could even look for a job while applying for social security. He told me that as long as I write down all of the hours I work, and I don’t make more then 860 dollars a month, I could work. Sounds easy right? Wrong! cuz if I make eight dollars an hour and work anything close to 30 hours a week, I make more then that! But THEN I did the math and realized that if I was making about 860 dollars a month I would make about 10,000 dollars a year! So that’s just great! The goverment believes a person can live on 10,000 dollars a year! No wonder we’re so srewed up, the government still thinks we are living in the 50’s! Thank god I don’t have children! AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

If you’ve read the entry in my “run a successful non-profit” goal, you’d know already that I suffer from a disease called Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, or RSD for short. If you haven’t read it, then know that it is an extremely painful disease that affects the nervous system. Having a job is extremely hard, as I can’t stand for more then ten minutes without hurting. I could try retai, but after one day I’d never be able to go back again. Even if I got through the day, doing it two days in a row would be impossible.

I put an application into OVR. I can’t remember what it stands for right now but when I figure it out I’ll tell you. They help those with disabilities find work. Still, their brochure said that it could take them up to and including sixty days to get back to me. I love our government. Can you smell the sarcasm?

I’m trying to create my own non-profit organization, but as of right now, it doesn’t have the money to pay for much of anything, let alone me. So for now this is a goal. Sigh…I hate that it has to be.

i’ve always had crappy jobs. yea i’m really sick of it. it’s time for a change..a real job.