Friday, February 17, 2012

Introduction for later post

Hey what's up everybody.  I hope everyone is doing well.  I am having one of those nights.  My mind is racing at Mach 3, can't sleep, and I have about a million ideas.  I am not exactly sure what order I'm going to put them in.  There may be 40 new blogs on here before I go to bed tonight, LOL.  I think I wanna start out telling a little bit about what I have been doing, as far as work, for the last eight years.  Now I started the type of work I'm about to tell you about after working 7 years in a machine shop as a machine operator.  I started by working one-on-one with adults with developmental disabilities.  This is a community based support.  The first client I worked with had 40 hours and about 10 goals.  A lot of which were community goals such as; socializing, safety in the community, spending money (budgeting), and that sort of thing.  The other few goals were personal care goals such as; personal hygiene, daily living skills, washing clothes, and that sort of thing.  Everyday, after completing his personal care goals we went out into the community and just hung out all day.  Went to the mall, bowling, church, out to eat.  I thought, "man this is awesome, I'm getting paid to have fun all day”.  Anyway, to cut a long story short, my hours got cut and I went to work at a sheltered workshop.  This was also with adults with developmental disabilities but it was not out in the community as much.  At this company we taught the same population work skills.  This was the best job I have ever had.  Everyday was eventful, adventurous, and freaking crazy.  It was like working in a sit-com.  I worked in the department of community employment as a job coach, floor supervisor, and job development specialist in the 6 years that I was employed there.  The reason I say it was like a sit-com is because we had so many characters and all these weird, yet funny, situations that come up all the time.  We had the crazy boss lady, the department whore, the wanna be boss next, lady, the loud emotional co-worker, and me the only sane one in the group.  However, I don’t work there anymore and I’m back to doing one-on-one work.  The reason for this particular blog is to serve as an introduction for later entries.

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