A little fun for all of you

In lieu of pictures on the past several posts....

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Budge and Band

Life continues here on Penny Lane.

I have now been at the Budge Clinic for a few weeks. It is an interesting site and I've seen several rare cases since I started there. More importantly for all you readers....I have a name badge. The most dramatic case I've seen is a 16yr old male who had a seizure during testing. It wasn't something I ever imagined encountering in audiology but at least the internship isn't dull.

The latest 'fun' adventure outside of audiology was the USU football game. Our first home game of the season against University of Utah. This was a very good news and bad news experience. Good news: the Aggie band has new uniforms. Bad News: our football team lost 48 to 0. I'm working on getting band pics up on my blog and for those of you who are wondering, yes I did stay for the whole game.

Today

Today was better....eventually. Today was my first day with my internship at the Budge Clinic. I arrived at the clinic at 7:45am and parked in my assigned area (far away from the door in the 'blue lined' spots). At first I was told 'blue lined spots' today I found out (but was not surprised) to find out that blue lines=peon. I went into the Budge Clinic and headed for HR to turn in my second round of paperwork. The happy girl there took my paperwork and proclaimed that my name badge was still not done..."could you come back this afternoon?" After this I went upstairs to the second floor (took the stairs) to Audiology. Note:Audiology/ENT at Budge is right next to OBGYN, who organizes these things? Upon arriving to Audiology I found that my supervisor was not there yet and our first appointment was not until 8:30am. I went back downstairs (taking the elevator). I walked back to the blue lined spaces and finished my coffee while sitting in my car (I'm a big chicken). After a short pep talk and half a cup of coffee I walked back inside (took the stairs again). By this time my supervisor had arrived and asked, 'where's your name tag?' and then introduced me to everyone who works there due to the fact that I had no badge to proclaim who I was.

2:15pm Took lunch. Went to USU Health Center and got my TB shot checked. Knowing I was TB free I got back in my car and ate grapes on my way back to the blue spaces. Once I parked I went back in to HR, name badge still not ready, "how do you spell that last name again?" Went upstairs (took the stairs, hey who's proud?). 2:40pm was back at work.

6:00pm all patients gone, begin paperwork. After practicing medical coding and record keeping I put all papers that had been important all day in the shredder. All in all a good day. Seems like things will go well with my new supervisor. However, I remain nameless until Monday where I will try to conquer HR again. Perhaps I should mention to them that I have been a good girl and park in the blue spaces? Remind I have turned in all my paperwork and have no TB? Who knows. Have new resolve. Will Prevail. Will get name badge!

Is it all worthwhile?

I have been in class for 1 full week and I officially have begun to question why I am there. Well its not the first time I have wondered this its just my first official time this year, I think it may be a record. Life has been so busy and stressful lately with Portland, the new school schedule, the wedding and just trying to keep things going around the house. Have you ever asked yourself why you do what you do? Today I have been thinking about why I even wanted to be an audiologist. Do I like ears?...no. Do I like people?...no. Do I like hospitals?...no. So even though I don't technically have time I wanted to post this; just to see if anyone else contemplates if all their efforts are really worth it. Why do people put all their time and effort into jobs that they end up hating? Could really use some advice/motivation. I know getting a job should be motivating but its not, the job will only produce more bills. Having more bills means needing to get a better job. I'm not sure if any of this makes sense, just let me know if you have days where you don't know what you are doing with your life anymore.