Red tape

Gone are the days when someone could walk into a store and get a job!

Now there are interminable things to go through online just to get an application, then there are a even more things to do before you can begin work if you are hired.

I spent all yesterday morning navigating my doctor's office where a wellness check up included a living will, power of attorney and lost blood tests! In the end they did a tb skin test but sent me to a pharmacy to get the immunizations I needed.

That began a whole new series of waiting in line and misinformation. Finally that pharmacy sent me downtown to another pharmacy! Just finding a parking place was difficult before I began the waiting process here. After filling out all kinds of paperwork, waiting for them to call my doctor and waiting for my doctor to call back, they decided they could only give me one of the shots because the other one would cause a false reading on my tb skin test. Now I have to call them in the morning and go in again at noon to get the last shot.

I also have to go back to my doctor tomorrow morning to get the tb skin test read and if I am able to navigate the last of the paperwork online today, I will finally start working Monday morning. Then I am hoping this will be a dream job.

Three hours a day working with children 3-5 is right in my ballpark of skills. Not to mention this place is so well designed and staffed that it is about as close as anyone could hope a home away from home for children could be. It is like working with a handful of the world's best mothers whose only focus is to get their children ready for the world in the best way possible.

I am truly blessed.