first week of work

Well, just finished my first 2 weeks of work after a short, little 10 week vacation!! ( Insert pity remarks here-- lol!! ) It went well. I went off to work with 2 new items: my new car and my new frameless eyeglasses. Nobody commented on my new car, which I understand since nobody saw me drive up in it how can they know who it belongs to? But after going through the whole week talking to and having lunch with my coworkers, only FOUR people noticed my glasses! Could it be the fact that I'm only 4'9" and the ones who noticed were the select few who share my..ahem.. 'point of view' (literally)?? Maybe.




It's nice being back into a routine. You see, if I don't have anything scheduled to do, I usually don't do anything. I'm not one to initiate visitations with friends; I guess I always think that if they wanted to be with me, THEY would've called ME ( stupid I know, but that's what i think, ...I THINK) lol and I'm not one to sporadically get into the car and drive to the park, beach or anywhere where alone just for the heck of it. when I go places I like to be with people. If I want to be alone I'd just... stay home.



I've had this job since 1987, I kinda fell into it. You see, I had been going to college. I graduated SUNY Farmingdale with a 2-year degree in Early Childhood Education, then I transferred to SUNY Old Westbury with intentions of taking Mathematics for teaching. Well,... only ONE week into my stay in a dorm. I got sick and had to drop out... missing that semester! I had a surgery and was 1/2 way back to normal by January, but not enough to go back to Dorm in college, so I decidedthat, to keep myself busy, I'd take 2 courses at SUNY Farmingdale, this time as a commuter.


that semester ended ( 2 A's , well worth it) and summer came. Well, wouldn't you know it, just before the new semester was to start, You guessed it... ANOTHER SURGERY and another missed semester!! Well, I wasn't about to sit around twiddling my thumbs for another 4 months,so I decided to get a 'temporary' job until I was back on my feet; enough to go back to school. I started as a part-time lunch relief aide ( a lot of walking the halls!) and in 2004, I went full-time as an aide ( 'Paraprofessional' is the 'PC' term these days) 23 years later I'm still at my temporary job... why mess with a good thing? I went to night school and finished at Dowling with a Special Ed degree, but along the way I decided to stay as an aide...job security. I used to think that I was not living up to my potential-- along with many people I worked with who reminded me of the same-- but today I feel I have a great job: Stability, a retirement system and the biggest reason of all---MEDICAL BENEFITS!!---- There's a great feeling when you can go to a doctor of your choosing have him do all the procedures and write him/her a check a fraction of the cost.--That is worth more than any clout a teaching job would get me. and I don't have to worry about lesson plans, State tests or parents with insane requests. It's a great gig!