It's Official!

I have a job! 

Covenant House hired me per diem as a Youth Advisor. I'll hopefully get put on the schedule soon and the calls will start coming! 

If you aren't sure what per diem is, I'll basically work when they need me. 

I'm really excited! Hopefully it'll eventually lead to something more full-time, but in the meantime, I'm very grateful for this opportunity and want to soak up as much as I can. 

A Youth Advisor basically is available to help the kids in whatever they need. It sounds simple, but there is always something to do and someone to help, and when there isn't, there are phones to answer, messages to take, and doors to buzz! The past two weeks I've been learning the ropes of the front desk, which has been really helpful to getting ready to be a Youth Advisor. I've also started establishing rapport with the some of the Youth (and even some of their babies!), which is always awesome. 

So, it'll be fun to see where this job leads! I am glad that I went down the volunteer road first, it gave me experience and helped them, and I would recommend that path to anyone who is in a job rut, like I was. 

While I'm offering up breaking news, I might as well venture to the Grad school topic. 

I'm in the application process for the Graduate school of Monmouth University. I applied for the International and Community Development Masters of Social Work. That's a mouthfull. I am scared to death of either result that this brings, of being rejected admittance or being accepted and the course work (namely, all the reading) that will come with it. So I'm not feeling anything in particular about this decision to apply, just seeing what will happen and go from there. 

So that's my news! God is good.