I've really been trying to look for another job at the hospital. Part of the reason is that I'm tired of the general public. It's hard to believe how stupid the majority of people are until you actually deal with the general public. Added to that is the huge amount of responsibility that is part of the Switchboard. Fire alarms, boiler alarms, cardiac arrest notifications, violence alerts, and so forth all come through the Switchboard, and I have to relay them to the proper people. It's very possible that someone could die if I screwed something up. All of this responsibility, and I get paid $9.94 an hour. The whole hospital just got a $0.34 raise a couple of weeks ago. The wage isn't that bad, but for the amount of responsibility, it's incredibly low. The people who work in Dietary making meals actually make more than me because they're in the union. Add to that the fact that I'm only part-time, which means I either get health insurance or a paycheck. And with student loans at $660 a month, there isn't much of a choice to make.

So, a couple of weeks ago, I applied to a receptionist position in the Center for Behavioral Health, which is full-time. I could finally get health insurance and get the labs and bloodwork done that I was supposed to have had about a year ago. High cholestoral, hyperparathyroidism, high calcium levels, family history of lots of bad things, and so forth. And the hours are from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm, which isn't buttcrack of dawn early. They just finished with their interviewing Friday, so I should be hearing from them before long.

I also applied to a full-time Housekeeping job. Which is horribly depressing. I applied to a job to pick up trash and wash toilets, despite the fact that I have a bachelor's degree from Bucknell University. The bad thing is that because it's union, the wage there is more than what I'm getting now. And, the job will be hard as hell. Seven hours of constant walking a day, with two fifteen minute breaks and a half-hour lunch.

However, Thursday, I got a phone call from the Census Buearu. Apparently, they would like me to work for them again, albeit in a different department or something. So, I'm going to be staying down in York, PA from Sunday night through Wednesday night, and they'll be paying for the motel and part of the meal expenses. I could have driven it, but it's two hours each way, which would have been awesome overtime since the base pay is $11 something, plus $0.50 a mile. It's only two to three weeks of work, which would be great to get some extra income but not too much to get annoying again. And they only require a minimum of twenty hours a week. Which means that I can do both jobs without either one being negatively effected.