I Got A Job!!

No clever title there, just the basic facts :) After nearly 4 months of searching and all of your helpful and very much appreciated crossed fingers (and toes ;), I finally landed a job! And it's perfect...exactly what I was looking for.

It's a job with the state as a "school based mental health counselor." I'll be placed at a school in New Orleans that's mostly for kids who have been kicked out of other schools, so there will probably be lots of behavior disorders...but I love a challenge ;) The program is set up to help rehabilitate kids who have behavior disorders, depression, ADHD, and anxiety disorders. I'll be working with adolescents, which is the exact age group that I wanted, and will be doing individual, some group, and family counseling when I can get the parents involved. I'm so excited about this.

Since it's a job with the state, the salary is decent...not great, but decent...the benefits are incredible, and there's job security. The program has guaranteed funding for a good amount of time. There's lots of supervision worked into the job, so it's perfect for me as a first job out of school. Now I just have to play the waiting game as I get all the paperwork lined up for my licensure and all the paperwork that I have to go through for the state. My guess is that it will probably be anywhere from 2 weeks to a month before I'm actually working, but the job is there, and that's all that matters!

The hours are 7:30-4 Monday through Friday, so I'm going to have to do some serious readjusting to my sleep schedule (as I blog at 1 AM). Blogs will probably be a little less frequent, but rest assured that I will most definitely still be blogging and reading away ;)