Life and job stuff

[soc_puppet]

For job related reasons, said reasons mostly being wanting to work more than seven hours a week on average, are you fucking kidding me*, I decided a while ago that I wanted to formally find out how close I was to getting an Associate's degree at the local community college. After all, I took some classes from 2005 to 2008, and then went through the bakery program in 2012/2013-ish; I've gotta be at least some percentage of the way there, right? Hopefully more than half?

Unfortunately, my first attempt to learn this didn't pan out. As a part-time employee of said community college, I can take one class a semester for free! We're supposed to email the HR person to get this set up, so I tried emailing her to ask who I should talk to in order to find out what classes I still need to take for an Associate's.

Yeah, that was last autumn some time, and I still haven't heard back from her.

Right before leaving for Florida, I finally got to the point where my frustration with my job situation managed to overpower my executive dysfunction against doing much about it. Unfortunately, there's not a lot I can do about that while half-way across the country, but I did talk to my aunt, my mom, and my SIL about my job woes, and they're on board to help me out and be supportive and stuff 🥰

Anyway, the threshold for this job stuff is definitely lasting longer than two weeks, which is a Very Good Thing, and last Tuesday I went to the closest office for the aforementioned community college to ask in person: How close am I to an Associate's degree, and/or who do I talk to in order to find that out?

Turns out I had to frickin' re-enroll in the college and talk to an advisor about it. The re-enrolling I did that very day, after which I waited until Thursday, because the re-enrolling site said they'd assign me an advisor in the next few days. And they did! I had an assigned advisor when I next checked the site! I emailed them promptly with my question...

...And got an automated reply that my advisor is out of the office until Monday, March 17th.

So. I'm still taking the win, because I am that much closer to finding out what I still need for an Associate's degree, and how many hoops I need to jump through. Fingers crossed it won't be many!

* This is not constructive dismissal, there legitimately isn't enough work for me to come in more than once a week most of the time, if that. I genuinely don't know if they have enough work to justify keeping me on staff at all, and I'm only still around for like. Legal/paperwork reasons. Which is a pretty shitty feeling, let me just say!

Comments

[vriddy]

Fingers crossed for you!

[soc_puppet]

He got back to me! With a bunch of raw data to sift through. I'm planning to make an in-person appointment with him, on the basis that I think it will go better if I can sit down and explain what I want while he explains what I actually still need for a degree, rather than me sorting through—hang on, lemme check—ah yes, five pages worth of information on the classes I have and have not yet taken.

[indarkdirected]

It sucks that you're having to jump through hoops to find out simple info - I hope the advisor gets back to you soon!

[soc_puppet]

My advisor did indeed get back to me today! With a heap of raw data for me to sift through 🤦‍♀️ I'm probably going to take him up on the option for an in-person meeting; I think that will help me clear things up significantly. And it's not like I've got a lot of potential scheduling conflicts 🙄

Let's hear it for jumping through hoops

[jesse_the_k]

...and I hope you get useful answers from this advisor soon.