Skills assessments 2

During the skill assessment session the lady helped me go over my resume to see what jobs I really enjoyed, what I liked about them, my priorities today and what kind of job would match all those criteria.

My priorities are: getting a family friendly schedule and having a salary worth the commute. Hours and money. This screams work in an office..
So I register in a couple agencies to be hostess, receptionist, secretary and such...

While sending my application to different places I realized there was no amount of money that would motivate me to work full time in a boring agency answering phone calls and waiting for the day to be over so I can pick up a lonely baby and put him to bed only to send him back to day care at the crack of dawn...


So I looked more into retirement homes and decided that would be a good compromise: I can do something I care about, get flexible hours, a reasonable paycheck...
I thought about teaching too, but it's minimum wage, and I know how much work is involved, and sorry but this is not the time in my life when I am going to invest this much energy outside of my home and barely break even at the end of the month.

Anyway. So I went back to the counselor with many questions about what kind of jobs I can find in a retirement home and how to get somewhat involved in decision making processes and organisation. And she found the PERFECT program for me. It's a formation to become manager, only just for a section. Not the big boss business formation, the coordinator. :) And I love this idea.
Bonus: it's not only for retirment homes. It's for any social institution: reinsertion, handicapped children/adults, homeless centers... any social centers.
It has a cute name: CAFERUIS. like a good comforting drink...


Now I am researching this formation because it's pretty unknown of the wide public. I hope I can find something that let me have some family time.. Or some books that I could start reading before the baby is born...

Now I am more at peace with the idea of working.