Life of Mine

New Job

I got a new job!  I have a job right now but I only work on the weekends at a restaurant.  As a wife and mother, working on the weekends works but doesn’t really work for us.  I mean, on the weekends, the husband can spend time with the kids and they don’t have to go to a babysitter.  That works.  On the weekends, my husband doesn’t work and the kids are free but I am not so when we feel like going somewhere or doing something, we can’t.  That doesn’t work.  When we do go out on weekend nights we have to come home early because…I have to work the next morning.  That doesn’t work (well it does but we don’t like that) 

My point is, we agreed that the weekend work needed to stop.  I needed to have weekends free so that we can have our family time all together all day.  It may be selfish but I like to spend time with my husband and we like to do family stuff and we’ve been holding back for the past two years because of my weekend job. 

I found a job that I can work during the week and have my weekends free.  Well, they require one Saturday or Sunday a month.  That sounds fine to me since it means 7 less weekend workdays than I have now!  I told them that I will need plenty of notice as well.  I am concerned though because I do have a lot of weekends coming up where I wouldn’t be able to work so I will have to let them know at my orientation next Thursday.

Oh, so what is this new venture for me, you ask?  Well, it is for a company called Home Instead.  I will be a companion for the elderly in their homes.  I will have various duties such as: light meal prep, light housekeeping, writing out grocery lists, running errands, reminding them to take medication, etc.  It sounds easy enough and I do love the elderly.  That may sound weird but I always have.  I am totally intrigued with people, in general.  I love to listen to people’s stories, learn about their families, etc.  So I think that this job should work out well for me.  They also go by my availability.  I can’t work Tuesdays, fine.  I can only work from 9am until 3pm, fine.  Great!  I could have one person that I work with, I could have many.  They do stress that they cannot guaruntee long term assignments because they are elderly and you never know….that will be a sad part to the job. 

I don’t know when exactly I will be starting so I haven’t given my two weeks’ notice at the restaurant yet.  I will be sad to leave there though since I work with my sister every weekend and the other ladies are fabulous.  Everyone there is related to someone else so it is like a true family, we are so close and we truly do love each other so I will be sad to leave them all.  Some of the picky customers, I won’t miss but some of the regulars I will miss as well.  That just means that I’ll have to go there to eat!!

I am looking forward to starting this new job and I am hoping that I will be good at what I do.