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Apr. 4th, 2003 11:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thatabbygirli will be starting work on monday. i'll be working at the organization that's sponsoring my fellowship (san fernando valley neighborhood legal services, say it twice fast!). their budget only has enough room for me to work half time, so i'll be there full hours on monday, tuesday, and wednesdays, and be off on thursday and fridays. which i think will be a nice way to ease back into the working world after not having worked full time since.. last august. and having a stupid silly job then that didn't really count as working.
i won't be starting on my fellowship project straight off, but instead will be working the intake line to get welfare recipient clients and advocate on their behalf. (this is different than my project in two main ways--i won't be dealing with exclusively mentally ill/disabled clients now, and i'll be dealing with clients on an individual basis instead of trying to effect systemic change.) this should be great in giving me a chance to learn a lot about the methods and procedures of the organization as well as brush up on my welfare rules knowledge, so i'll be all ready to dive into my work when the fellowship actually begins.
also, i am very very very nervous. since last summer, where i had a job i was excited about at an organization i much respected and then was ignored and not given anything to do for the entire summer and started leaving early just because 7 hours of internet play per day was my limit, i've become nervous about new jobs. i also hear there are space issues at the organization, so i'm not sure if i'll be sharing an office with 2 or 3 people or even have an office or maybe just have a desk in a supply closet. also, it's in a not so great neighborhood, so i have to figure out what i'm going to do about lunch and stuff.
details, details. i'm also pretty excited, because i haven't done any welfare work in far too long and there is nothing i get a rush from more than battling the welfare administration of dooooom. being able to advocate for clients on a long term basis, instead of needing to solve their problems in the one afternoon during which i would visit a welfare office, seems a great luxury. i'll also be working with people who have been doing this for years, instead of supervising law students on their first time trying to do welfare advocacy, so i'm hoping to learn a lot.
also, i will be making money! finally! money for meeee! i'll be paid at an hourly rate because i'm only a half time employee (making me nervous about my medical coverage...), but it's an hourly rate not quite but almost twice as much as i've ever made before. and that might go up once i get my bar results back and am sworn in as an attorney.
so, nervous and woo! at the same time.
i won't be starting on my fellowship project straight off, but instead will be working the intake line to get welfare recipient clients and advocate on their behalf. (this is different than my project in two main ways--i won't be dealing with exclusively mentally ill/disabled clients now, and i'll be dealing with clients on an individual basis instead of trying to effect systemic change.) this should be great in giving me a chance to learn a lot about the methods and procedures of the organization as well as brush up on my welfare rules knowledge, so i'll be all ready to dive into my work when the fellowship actually begins.
also, i am very very very nervous. since last summer, where i had a job i was excited about at an organization i much respected and then was ignored and not given anything to do for the entire summer and started leaving early just because 7 hours of internet play per day was my limit, i've become nervous about new jobs. i also hear there are space issues at the organization, so i'm not sure if i'll be sharing an office with 2 or 3 people or even have an office or maybe just have a desk in a supply closet. also, it's in a not so great neighborhood, so i have to figure out what i'm going to do about lunch and stuff.
details, details. i'm also pretty excited, because i haven't done any welfare work in far too long and there is nothing i get a rush from more than battling the welfare administration of dooooom. being able to advocate for clients on a long term basis, instead of needing to solve their problems in the one afternoon during which i would visit a welfare office, seems a great luxury. i'll also be working with people who have been doing this for years, instead of supervising law students on their first time trying to do welfare advocacy, so i'm hoping to learn a lot.
also, i will be making money! finally! money for meeee! i'll be paid at an hourly rate because i'm only a half time employee (making me nervous about my medical coverage...), but it's an hourly rate not quite but almost twice as much as i've ever made before. and that might go up once i get my bar results back and am sworn in as an attorney.
so, nervous and woo! at the same time.
