{"id":2022,"date":"2013-10-22T04:10:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T11:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dropoflove.net\/jay\/?p=2022"},"modified":"2013-10-22T04:10:32","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T11:10:32","slug":"6-weeks-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/2013\/10\/22\/6-weeks-in\/","title":{"rendered":"6 weeks in"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey<\/p>\n

So I am well underway with this new job. Nervous as I’ve ever been about any job I’ve held before.<\/p>\n

The requirements. The need for graduation… it weighs on me.<\/p>\n

Graduation? You might be thinking that I am still in the air. I’m not. The job is. So maybe I am?<\/del>. I guess I am too.<\/p>\n

It is a scary thing to be living on one paycheck and not even have that be a permanent position.<\/p>\n

I am six weeks in. I may not know until the end of December if I get to keep this job. I hope and pray that I am able to. You have to be meeting certain metrics in order to keep the position. In previous classes it’s been the norm that some people simply don’t graduate. Ugh. I couldn’t have come all this way for that, could I? I can’t believe so. It wouldn’t make sense.<\/p>\n

So this week started our OJT part of training. Those not use to that lingo: on the job training. The class takes calls all throughout the day, as we would on a normal shift but we have access to help incase we need it. We will be in OJT until we graduate or are let go.<\/p>\n

Needless to say there is a lot riding on this.<\/p>\n

The future of my marriage and even the unborn child.<\/p>\n

So what can I do? Today was a horrible day. I felt as though I didn’t know anything. I seem to do fine when I have an idea of what I should be doing. When I have to deal with the opposite I feel stupid. No joke. Today I felt stupid. It’s the very beginning of OJT yet there are people all throughout the class who are more worried about meeting a bonus than even graduation. They are that sure of themselves that they are already planning that far ahead. Not I… I am trying to make it work. Hoping that things will start to go my way. Or at least that things will start to get easier.<\/p>\n

Hmmm…<\/p>\n

So last Thursday (my Friday) the trainer wanted the class to do a Harlem Shake video. Reluctantly everyone agreed. The result is the link below to the video.<\/p>\n

Here it is.<\/a><\/p>\n

How silly. I’m in green. I had seen the videos for it but to be honest I was always more of a Ganganam Style guy than I was for the Harlem Shake fad.<\/p>\n

Anyway. I guess it will be something to remember. That is for sure.<\/p>\n

What else? Last weekend we tried a church. It felt like we had jumped back into the early to mid 90’s… Nuff’ said.<\/p>\n

Blazers season opener is just a few days away. In some ways the time is zooming by. I have meant to post and update for a while not but have consistently been putting it off.<\/p>\n

Today was the day to open the app and just start typing.<\/p>\n

The temps are still in the high 80s and low 90s. Just a few more weeks and Phoenix will be entering into the nicer time of the year. I can’t wait. I long for the cool weather. The heat is for the birds. Maybe not even them.<\/p>\n

Until next time<\/p>\n

just Pray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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