So I think I’m going back to work.
What have I been doing with myself for the past ten years, you might well ask. Well, For most of them I was raising kids.
But then when mudgirl (now 8) started school full-time, I didn’t re-enter the work force for several reasons: One, my hubby works out of town Tuesday morning thru Friday night, so I was not willing to take a job that required me to work weekends. Two, even though I have work experience, I don’t have a degree or anything. Anything I was likely to find would pay maybe $8.00 or so an hour and require me to work evenings and weekends (it’s my understanding that when a place says “flexible schedule”, what they mean is it’s flexible for them, not for you). Three, my kidneys suck, and as such, I’d need to take more sick days than I thought any employer would tolerate.
But my oldest daughter has been working at a call center for a while now, and they recruit very actively. In fact, it is my understanding that basically, they’ll hire anyone with a pulse, and let them weed themselves out. She talked to one of the recruiters about me (as it so happens, most of my work experience is in customer service/telephone sales). The recruiter said that they have at least one project that would not require me to work evenings and weekends. And while it will be a while before I have any sick time accrued, if they’re happy with my work, they won’t fire me for taking the sick time I need.
I went down last Monday and took the tests (a typing test, and an audio test where you enter information as it’s being given to you through a head set) and, as I expected, breezed right through both of them. They were talking about having me back for an interview this coming Monday, and said they’d email me the application.
Well, for some reason, the application they emailed me won’t let me fill in dates (and in a lot of places, it’s a required field), so my daughter asked them, and they said I can come on down to the office on Monday, fill out the application there, have an interview, and most likely be given a start date (which they anticipate will be September 8th).
I’m kind of excited. It’s not a lot of money, I’ll be bringing home about $900.00 a month. And I know it’ll be crazy trying to settle into a routine. But it will be good to be “back out there” again. And I can get mudgirl into the after-school program, which means I’ll be able to put her on the bus in the morning and pick her up on my way home in the evening.
Wish me luck!