good news, bad news
Aug. 14th, 2007 08:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
verushka70The good news is, I passed the physical and was officially welcomed to the job. My start date is next Monday.
The bad news is, my checking account is overdrawn. :( Sigh.
And I have to buy new scrubs for my new job -- but I don't have any money to do that with! I'm hoping to sell some textbooks on Craigslist. Maybe I can scrape together the cash that way. And I'm supposed to get paid tomorrow for the last pay period at the old job. I just know that check will be tiny, though. That's the problem. In fact, depending how overdrawn I am (I haven't checked recently), the entire paycheck may be eaten by my overdraw and overdraw fees (and NSF fees). Sigh.
But once I start working the new job, in one 12 hour shift I will make more at the ER RN job than I made in two weeks at the camp job. Pathetic. So that will hopefully be the end of my $$ struggles for some time!
. . . and there was much rejoicing!
I am uncomfortable with the blood draw thing, though. I mean, I know they take your blood & urine to test for drug use. Okay, fine, whatever. But the nurse doing the whole thing told me that "this is all new since 9/11" -- that before 9/11, all they did was piss-test you.
I just don't like it. Yes, I know they are just looking for HIV & Hepatitis B and probably running other titers on all the things I should be immune to from required vaccinations (for nursing school). Yes, I'm sure they will throw my blood away when they are done with it. Yes, I have already donated my blood a number of times.
But it's the principle of the thing. And the fact that nothing they gave me said in writing what would actually be done with my blood, and nobody told me (although, admittedly, I was too intimidated to ask). When I donate blood, that's different: my blood winds up in a PERSON. Not in a lab somewhere (except for the small tubes they draw at first for HIV and other testing).
And anyway, it's just another example of how we're incrementally giving up freedoms to remain "safe" -- although how safe we are is questionable, given that a guy with drug-resistant TB was able to leave the US though he'd been told not to; was able to travel through Europe and the Mediterranean, and then re-enter the US through the Canadian border, even though he was flagged AND stopped and then later let go.
So it's like, we're incrementally giving up rights and freedoms... to be just as unsafe as we were before. Oh, yay! I feel so much better now!
The bad news is, my checking account is overdrawn. :( Sigh.
And I have to buy new scrubs for my new job -- but I don't have any money to do that with! I'm hoping to sell some textbooks on Craigslist. Maybe I can scrape together the cash that way. And I'm supposed to get paid tomorrow for the last pay period at the old job. I just know that check will be tiny, though. That's the problem. In fact, depending how overdrawn I am (I haven't checked recently), the entire paycheck may be eaten by my overdraw and overdraw fees (and NSF fees). Sigh.
But once I start working the new job, in one 12 hour shift I will make more at the ER RN job than I made in two weeks at the camp job. Pathetic. So that will hopefully be the end of my $$ struggles for some time!
. . . and there was much rejoicing!
I am uncomfortable with the blood draw thing, though. I mean, I know they take your blood & urine to test for drug use. Okay, fine, whatever. But the nurse doing the whole thing told me that "this is all new since 9/11" -- that before 9/11, all they did was piss-test you.
I just don't like it. Yes, I know they are just looking for HIV & Hepatitis B and probably running other titers on all the things I should be immune to from required vaccinations (for nursing school). Yes, I'm sure they will throw my blood away when they are done with it. Yes, I have already donated my blood a number of times.
But it's the principle of the thing. And the fact that nothing they gave me said in writing what would actually be done with my blood, and nobody told me (although, admittedly, I was too intimidated to ask). When I donate blood, that's different: my blood winds up in a PERSON. Not in a lab somewhere (except for the small tubes they draw at first for HIV and other testing).
And anyway, it's just another example of how we're incrementally giving up freedoms to remain "safe" -- although how safe we are is questionable, given that a guy with drug-resistant TB was able to leave the US though he'd been told not to; was able to travel through Europe and the Mediterranean, and then re-enter the US through the Canadian border, even though he was flagged AND stopped and then later let go.
So it's like, we're incrementally giving up rights and freedoms... to be just as unsafe as we were before. Oh, yay! I feel so much better now!