The New Job

Well...it has been a week now since I started my job, and I have to say not a day goes by that it doesn't make think of my DBU!!! I miss everyone there, and this job makes me think of the Cashier's office, the Business office, and Advancement!! It is like I took all those jobs and mixed them together! :)

I am liking it ....we are trying to relocate our office so I think this week and next will be a moving week!!! yikes!

Aaron is doing really well...he is LOVING his job and we LOVE our church!!! They are a wonderful group of people!

Merlin is still a playful cat, but now he will crawl up into your lab and fall asleep!!! I LOVE it!! Lucy is getting so big....I hate that she isn't with us, but she is having the time of her life with Boo! I think we may need to get another dog after we buy a house that way she doesn't get so lonely! :)

Speaking of the house....we just lowered the price from $144,900 to $142,500. That is about all we can afford to lower it! We really need to sell it....we barely have any money in the bank!! That house payment is killing us!!! Hopefully our finances will do better now that I have a job and will be getting paychecks!!!

Okay...I need to get back to the old job!!! Have a great day everyone! :)

New Job!!!

Okay, I know I promised some of you that I would blog sooner....sorry!! I have been SO busy at my NEW JOB!!!! YEAH!!!!

Here are all the details:

I had an interview Monday at 8:00 am with ACMA in Little Rock (off Markham & Shackleford for those of you in AR). By 12:00 he called and offered me that position and asked if I could start 2:00 pm the same day!! I of coarse said yes!

The reason I started Monday was because the lady who left my position had her last day today! So I was able to train with her a few days!! Tomorrow is my first day alone!!! yikes! The lady's husband was transferred to South Carolina...that is why the position opened up! Praise the Lord though...for me!! :) She had only been there for 2 months!! She didn't know that he was going to be transferred!!! They tease me already about not leaving in 2 months.

The position title is Customer Service Assistant....here is what that basically entails:
1. I am the 2nd assistant to the CEO
2. I am the Financial Director's assistant
3. I am Customer Service (just me)
4. I am the Receptionist/catch all for everyone else

So I will pretty much stay busy until the day I die...just kidding!!

The company's official name is CGI which stands for Cunningham Group Inc. However, they mostly go by ACMA/NICM.

ACMA- American Case Management Association
NICM - National Institute of Case Management

In a nutshell we keep certified all Social Workers, RN who work with case workers, Case Workers, and any one else in that type of field. They have to become a member of our company to remain certified, attend our conferences to achieve the hours they need to be certified, and take the certification/re-certification test through us.

There are several chapters in different states with presidents and so on, but they are all members of our company...if that makes sense. Each chapter has their own state conference once a year (which we help put on) and then we host the National conference which is held in a different major city each year... this year it is in Vegas!!!

The entire staff goes to our National conference for 8 days and works it...they pay the way for all of us (get us a hotel and give us money for food)!!! I am really excited I get to go to Vegas...even if I will be working for most of the time!!

They are paying me a little less than what I was making at DBU, however, there is a possible $2,000 bonus each year based on performance...so if I can get that bonus it will be about the same as what DBU was paying! Let's face it... I have been without a job for 4 months now... I will take anything that pays!!! :)

The job itself is kind of like my Cashier job and Advancement job all rolled into one... I am processing all financial apps., payments, ect. At the same time keeping track of who has registered/paid for the conferences....not to mention COPYING CHECKS again!! :)

Thankfully it is similar to jobs I've held before...it helps me not feel as overwhelmed. I know this job will be a ministry opportunity... I don't think any of them (or many of them) go to church or are saved. They kept making comments today about how I am a crazy Baptist when I was goofing around with them! Here's the story....

I was joking with one of the ladies about buying eatable underwear for her husband for Valentines day! She of coarse told the entire office that I was going to buy my hubby eatable underwear!! They kept saying, "Wait, aren't you a Baptist Ministers Wife? You want to buy eatable underwear?!" I would just laugh and say, "It's okay, because we are married and there is nothing wrong with that in a marriage" Of coarse the entire time I could feel my face getting red! :)

I also told them that even if I wanted to go buy something like eatable underwear I didn't think I could work up enough nerve to actually go into a store like that... I would be too embarrassed. They thought that was funny! Who knows...maybe they will see that Christians can have fun too and are normal just like they are!

okay... now that I have told you an embarrassing story....I am going to get off this thing!

Until next time!! xo