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November 2, 2006, 3:06 pm PST
 Quote From: blgspc I posted about volunteer work with the Katrina victims. None of the places that I gave my name and number to returned my calls. Even the agency I had worked for said that they already had too many volunteers and too few victims, even though they called me!
I have my resume prepared. I just don't have the cover letter completed. I'm an RN and I would love to work in a community doctor's office. I've had several MD's say, "Well, leave your resume with me I have friends who are looking for a retired RN!" I'm procrastinating! Changing my nursing approach from Behavioral Health to Community Health AND meeting new strangers...I have cold feet.
I'm glad that you have your dance class! I always go through this period of terror at meeting a group of people. It's not quite as bad if they are health care worker, or family that I've known forever. But, I still break out into a sweat with an ordinary group. I'm going to work on that as well. I'm going to get the resumes handed out!!!!!
Brenda Brenda, be kind to yourself ... it seems like when you wrote how you feel scared to meet new people ... it's just related to that group ... I had to work it out too ... for me I used my resume to help me ...
My ex boss and her best-friend tore down my "SELF" ... I questioned my own abilities, my own strengths ... finally, at the beginning of this year, I finally decided to tackle what I was saying to myself and pull my resume together. It was awful ... for a couple of weeks, all I could do was doubt who I was, my skills, my experience ... and finally, I made myself sit down and really review my last working year there (2004) and I saw that I had 2 different versions of me ... the one that they worked so hard in tearing down and the other where I worked for the summer with another manager in a different organization and I was accepted for being an excellent worker .. in fact, I was treated like an equal even though I was an administrative person. I really had to work thru some crazy issues.
Maybe that's what you can do to. Think of those times when you meet new people and came to be treated as a friend or equal. It's the IS IT TRUE question. I mean, when Ifinally was able to connect the dots, I was able to go to a couple of interviews and I continued to work thru the mess that it caused me. Now, I'm able to go to interviews and I got a lot of work to do because I just can't seem to dump the "I DON'T GET ALONG WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE COMPLAINERS" ...
and you just gave me an AHA cause now I know I have to address my last interview ... hmmm maybe I just need to do different ... and I wonder what that would be. |
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