Crayons, Playdoh & Wax

Well, I got a job. Right now I work about 33 hours a week. Probably as close to full time as dh is going to get me at this point I work 3 nights a week at a sleep lab… so yes, I work OVERnight. I love it and am fitting in really well. I just need to get into a schedule that will work for us and me. I start my regular schedule tomorrow night. (Mon) so that will be good. Hopefully it will stay steady for now. My boss is thinking about hiring another RT though, so I might need to make some changes… or maybe since I have seniority I will get to keep my 3 first choices

It does make me feel good to know that I am doing good. I have worked 6 shifts at this point… gotten my first paycheck (which was only for 3 nights and 1 day study that was only 8 hours), so the next check will give me a good idea of where I will be. Then as soon as I can have 10 studies where my boss and I agree 90% of the time, I move to a tech status, and then I am a flat rate. It will be really nice. I have 1 down… and since it was out of 5, I am pretty impressed. I almost had a 2nd one… but was off a little toward the end of the night, which took me to 70% instead (agreeing). Dh was oh so supportive (NOT). When I told him about already having 1, he was like ‘well, it’s a start). The fastest my boss has had someone get to tech status is 2 months… so I am out to break a record here I want to learn this. I know all the rest, except for the EEG parts of it… so that is the part I am working on learning.

I am still working at MOPS 2 mornings a month too… so that is why I am glad that I am not working on Wednesday nights. I work with the 3 year olds. It is fun and keeps me in my kid fix!! Oh, and doing GS twice a month… the weekly thing was getting to be too much… so every other week is enough!!

Oh, and get this… next week… MTV is coming and filming us doing a study. Not sure how we got this, but it will be great for the business… granted, I am not working, but I will post it here when it is going to air… so you can at least check out where I work… and what I do My boss is going to run the study, but he doesn’t want to be on camera, so I believe our marketing guy is going to do all the talking. That is actually who got me my job. J’s girlfriend works with Ken and we met at the bi-annual dinner back in September. The interesting part is, that neither of us were going to go to the dinner, and we ended up sitting across from each other. When he told me he was in the process of buying 3 sleep labs, I was like ‘really?’ We started talking and I told him that was the area I was wanting to move into. He passed on my name to my boss, and the rest is history J gave me a great compliment the other night. He told me that M can’t say enough great things about me and that he wished he could clone me to have at his labs. Our company was 5 labs total, and as of last week, M bought out all the partners and sold J 3 of the labs. Kind of cool. Since J does the marketing, M helps with staffing and J does marketing for us. So we are still kind of all one, just joint owners

Oh, and since I am working The night shift. I started a group on Twitter Moms (it’s a forum, so now, you don’t have to Twitter to join) call The Night Shift so come join me