No, I don't imagine you do after the last day or so. My condolences on both the accident and the loss of your crew member.
Don't worry about the right to mourn. Everyone holds out hope that they'd be mourned when they pass. You're honoring him well.
Obviously the loss of your crew member is your grief and is your trauma on some level or you wouldn't feel as you do. It's not like you're flinging yourself on the gentleman's coffin in a public display of emotion; you're feeling the loss of someone you knew and quietly sharing those feelings with us. That's okay, Reg. Losses are not solitary by nature, but cumulative. First responders, search and rescue, etc. folks see a lot of trauma on the job. We process it neatly until one day, something triggers feelings of grief and despair all out of proportion to the triggering event. Take it seriously, because that's when cops eat their guns and ER nurses jump off bridges. You do have the right to be this upset. You do. Don't deny it or restrict it. and if dealing with it gets hard enough, for goodness sake, find someone to help you through it. Thinking of you.
Thanks for that. We had a bit of a get together at the station last night. His family were there. We gave his young son his yellow boots to keep. I don't feel at all well today.
The leftovers from hurricane Hellene came through here last night. My power went out about 5:30 or so. According to the weather app on my phone we’ve gotten 13” of rain in the past couple days. 6” in the past 24 hours. Our electric company says it’ll be 3 to 5 days at least to get our power back on because they just don’t have parts enough in stock to fix all the outages they have. I’ll give them points for telling it like it is. After all, Ohio isn’t exactly known for hurricane weather. But still…3 to 5 days?
I feel I am at a career deadend. I know I need to figure out a plan. But Paralegal is not my favorite thing to be. In reality, a lot of lawyers suck and I don’t want to hurt people legally. Anyway, my friend suggested I look i to cybersecurity and I was wonder if any of you here have knowledge of that field. I really like research and am an introvert. Also, I enjoy tech and stuff. But I am worried it is just going to be like Paralegal, where I loved learning the skills, but the people/industry sucks. Please help. I applied for a restaurant job yesterday after so many attempts to find another basic office manager/receptionist job.
Yeah, by all means! I wanted to be a detective when I was a kid. I liked secrets. I would consider librarian, but it pays so little and jobs aren't easy to find.
Yeeeeeaaaahh! And worse, the place I interviewed hasn't called me back, after calling me 30 minutes from the time I applied. Eek. But that's okay. It's also annoying for me to find somewhere I LIKE to work. I am very particular about the place and people. I want a safe place where my chances of dying are low (it's a long story) and the people aren't dicks. If any of you have ideas, let me know. Because I have a great only 1 day part-time at the moment, but I need something more.
Thanks. Anyway, at the core of it, I just want more money. I am happy to make a little pocket change, but I am trying to figure out how make more.
You can make a small fortune in restaurants, relatively speaking. I've got servers who probably make $100K a year working 30 hours a week.
I’m pretty sure adults asking children what they want to be when they grow up has nothing to do with an interest in a child’s future. They’re really just looking for ideas for themselves.
Yeah, this is a relatively easy job that pays quite well. You need to get some certificates though, which will probably cost a few thousand bucks, and most likely you'll need to work in some tech support/IT role for a bit first rather than jump into an entry-level position. For example, a guy I worked with answered the phone for about two years doing electronic medical records technical support (which of course has a big focus on security), and then applied internally for an unrelated role in cybersecurity. He basically just sits around in an office watching Netflix with a bunch of monitors with graphs and stuff around him. He only has to do work when something actually happens, and that work usually consists of an alarm going off and him having to call/message someone else to take care of the issue. Hmm. Maybe I should look into getting some tech certifications...
I was a NALA certified legal assistant for just short of 12 years. You have skills that you can market in any number of different ways: organization, critical thinking, problem solving, ability to leap tall courthouses at a single bound when your attorney procrastinates till the last minute and leaves you to save the day. Former legal assistants in my acquaintance went into all sorts of jobs: museum assistant/newsletter writer (me), victim response unit first responder (also me), human resource specialist, process server, archivist at the state historical association, medical records librarian, ward clerk, business owner (independent bookstore), victim services specialist, political campaign manager, member of the state legislature (different person from the campaign manager), office manager, deputy sheriff, prison guard. Those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. PS I forgot the young woman who went back to school and is now working for the FBI in some kind of computer investigations.
Depends on the library job. Since you are a paralegal, i'd look in to university libraries, particularly those that have law schools. (Fun fact.... im a law librarian. Only difference is, my law library is in a public library. The surrounding law libraries are in court houses and universities, and they have paralegals on their staffing) University libraries pay more in some areas. Ive never paid attention to courthouse library positions, so i couldnt tell you what they pay. Big public libraries pay well, but the higher paying positions are for those with an MLIS.
