I was at work and around 9am I got a very exciting e-mail saying that I have been selected for a dental school interview! I was and still am so excited about this news and feel so blessed to have been selected so early in the interview process, for at least one school. I'm obviously hoping for, and expecting, more interviews to come, but it is an incredible feeling to have even one chance to get into dental school.
Dental schools are usually proceed with a rolling admission process, so for me to have an early scheduled interview is a huge bonus! I hope I can make it count!
So back to Wednesday, I was obviously riding the high of knowing I had an interview most of the day. That was until I received a very disheartening e-mail from my manager at work. I was notified that I will no longer be keeping my intern position at the eye bank. In fact, I was notified that my last day would be Thursday..... the 31st! Big heads up on their part. I had heard mixed reports from my managers as to what my role would become beginning August. I was in a tricky position for them at the eye bank. I was obviously brought into the eye bank as a lab intern, doing random tasks and assignments to help out with daily flow of the place. But more recently, I have been trained to do donor recoveries, to procure corneas out in the field. This, I believe, put me in a unique place of being an intern in the lab and yet holding an actual employee position with the recovery team.
When the option of getting my recovery training was first presented to me, I had come under the impression I was doing the eye bank a favor. I had been led on to believe I would be continuing my intern duties in the office while also be given the flexibility to help pick up cases when the recovery team needed me. Well, it turns out this isn't the case even if it had been when they first described it to me! Evidentially my two managers made a decision to just have me be part of the recovery team only. And I was pretty much notified of this with only a single day notification before I was "done" with the office. So just to clarify, I have not been fired or punished, I've just been shifted into a new position.
So what now? Now I am a "full time" field tech. I skeptically say full time because I have no set hours to work. I am basically 100% of the time on call, without pay, and have to pick up cases when I am called in order to actually work. While this is not exactly ideal, I think I'm alright with the whole outcome. I honestly do enjoy the recovery work! It's extremely interesting and exciting, and I'm very thankful they have given me the opportunity to do it. Procuring corneas is way more fascinating than sitting at the office doing paperwork all day. It'll certainly be tricky not having a "guaranteed" income for this month, but honestly, with +Hannah and I getting ready to move back to MN at the end of the month, I'm not going to be working with the Illinois eye bank at all soon anyway. So we'll make it work.
I'd also like to mention that while it was extremely unfortunate that they only gave me a one days notice about me ending my time in the office, I'm really not that mad about it anymore. Wednesday night I was upset, but my Thursday morning I had realized this isn't going to be the end of the world. The communication with me over the regards of my role has been sloppy, but I forgive them. Like I said, I was a tricky employee for them I believe with the mixed jobs.
I should also quickly mention that I've already been out on two cases all on my own over this weekend, so hopefully I'll continued to get calls!
I have to admit, I'm going to miss working in downtown Chicago a bit. I have always had such mixed feelings of enjoyment and hate for riding the green line everyday to and from downtown and walking all the way along Clinton Street. But despite those mixed feelings, its hard to know I won't be doing it anymore. I won't be seeing all the people I've come to recognize on the train or from my walk to work (who I make up various life stories and scenarios for), won't have to deal with walking through the hustle and bustle of Union Station people anymore or gazing up at Willis Tower while I work. I had some fun with it while it lasted, and I'm glad I can say I did that in my life (work in downtown Chicago that is), but it's time is up! But maybe I got out of doing that just in time, with two shootings happening within two blocks of work my last week there........... yeah I won't miss it that much!
Aside from all of that and back to Wednesday night, I went to play tennis with my neighbor to try and get my mind off of work and school stuff, and another tragedy befell on me. My wedding ring broke! It had been coming and I obviously knew a wooden/antler ring would break eventually when I bought it, but it was still sad. I'm also unsure if it is even salvageable, so I'm currently looking into replacements. I'd definitely like another wooden ring though!
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| The two bands you see in this picture were very recently one whole ring! Now they are separated wood and antler. |
While we are obviously looking forward to moving back to MN, we have a lot of things we want to do in Chicago still before leaving. It'll be an exciting month!
Thanks for reading and I'll be sure to post again soon!
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