New Job!
I had an interview for a job with the Cleveland Clinic a few weeks ago, and I'm proud to report that I'll be working for them with their cancer research department! No, I won't actually be performing research, but I'll be helping with the writing portion of things. The travel for my old job was really getting to me. I'm getting a $4,000 a year pay increase, and a job that will be very supportive of my academic endeavors (read: school for physician assisting). Plus, no travel outside the Cleveland area. So Matt and I will actually get to experience what living together is really like for the first time since I moved in over a month ago.
I'm practicing a bit of deception at the moment, though. I've told my current employer that I'm unhappy with the travel, and that my last day with them will be June 1. What they don't know is that I have another job I'm starting June 11. And I intend to keep it that way. I was told when I took this position that if for whatever reason I decided I no longer wished to travel that my severance package would be once again an option. Although the agreement says nothing about being contingent on my not being employed, I feel it behooves me to keep the new job quiet. I don't want them trying to change my decision into a quit rather than a layoff. If we hadn't lost the contract in Cleveland, I would still be with the company, happy as a clam to continue while attending school.
If all goes according to plan, I'll receive 3 months of salary, plus a few grand in a paid time off payout. Which will go toward bills, and other necessities. Like new clothes for my ever-shrinking, slinky new figure.
I don't exactly know yet what it is that I'll be doing for the Clinic, other than writing protocols for cancer research. Which, from what I've gathered, means that I'll be making sure that the research we're doing follows federal laws and insititutional guidelines. It's a desk job, but a very grown-up desk job. :^) I'm looking forward to taking my walking shoes and getting in a few laps on my lunch hour, since I'm not used to being at a desk all day long. Parts of it will be boring, I'm sure. But I think that overall it'll be a really good experience, and it'll help me to get accepted into the PA program when the time comes.
I'm practicing a bit of deception at the moment, though. I've told my current employer that I'm unhappy with the travel, and that my last day with them will be June 1. What they don't know is that I have another job I'm starting June 11. And I intend to keep it that way. I was told when I took this position that if for whatever reason I decided I no longer wished to travel that my severance package would be once again an option. Although the agreement says nothing about being contingent on my not being employed, I feel it behooves me to keep the new job quiet. I don't want them trying to change my decision into a quit rather than a layoff. If we hadn't lost the contract in Cleveland, I would still be with the company, happy as a clam to continue while attending school.
If all goes according to plan, I'll receive 3 months of salary, plus a few grand in a paid time off payout. Which will go toward bills, and other necessities. Like new clothes for my ever-shrinking, slinky new figure.
I don't exactly know yet what it is that I'll be doing for the Clinic, other than writing protocols for cancer research. Which, from what I've gathered, means that I'll be making sure that the research we're doing follows federal laws and insititutional guidelines. It's a desk job, but a very grown-up desk job. :^) I'm looking forward to taking my walking shoes and getting in a few laps on my lunch hour, since I'm not used to being at a desk all day long. Parts of it will be boring, I'm sure. But I think that overall it'll be a really good experience, and it'll help me to get accepted into the PA program when the time comes.
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