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One man's journey to find the way home |
| I am beginning a new chapter. I have begun a job as a team leader at a residential facility about a mile away from where I live. I work with Intellectually disabled adults. It is what I have always wanted to do even if the timing is not the best. Yet who am I to judge that kind of thing? I have been in Erie about 3 months. I still am not settled and have a very limited support group, since almost all of my time has been spent looking for jobs or preparing for work at jobs. One work situation was a disaster area. I was fired because I stayed at a clients house after hours. I was there only 6 weeks. I was shut if a room with my supervisor and a man who was obviously administration. They asked me one question. Did I stay at the clients house overnight. I needed only to mention that I was at his house overnight after he invited me to stay. The answer was yes. I was served termination papers and thus my first job in Erie was toast. I searched for the longest time in a state of paranoia. I was in prayer and all that kind of stuff. I was consumer hired and then when I looked for something to do until I waited for orientation, the day before I was officially hired by the consumer's agency, I walked in a temporary service agency and I was offered another job that was perfect for what I wanted to do and yet the timing felt awful to me. I had just lost a job after only 6 weeks and it is/was hard to believe that this could happen for me. I mean I just walk into the temp agency and poof I had a job I had been searching for early in my job hunting ordeal. My reservation is in having a very limited support system in a supervisory type of position where I will need to have clear boundaries with staff and clients, while I desperately want to someone to come and tell me they want to befriend me and help me get through this. It was here for me in spades in KC. I am not so lucky yet here. I was nixed off my consumer hire job, because of my sloppy communication. I did try to tell someone that I had orientation and was told that I needed to talk with the supervisor of the home I would be working at. My temp agency that hired me for the residential position was livid at me for even considering doing orientation, when I was first starting a job that he had gotten me and my new supervisor (who I did not know until my orientation started listened and yet was unwilling to let me go to orientation, because she herself was new at her position and It just was not likely to happen, so I gave in and accepted that I would fully commit to the job and take one day at a time. It was an obvious choice and yet because of the fact of my being new to Erie it was made more difficult than it should have been. The consumer hire was someone that I had a good relationship with. It was back breaking and exhausting the two days I had been working with him and not only that I was thirty miles from where I lived, split shifts, which meant the only was I could make it work was spending thirteen hour days and thus all things considered would not see my wife much. The other position that I committed to was something I had wanted to do since I came to Erie. It was less than a mile from where I lived, the pay was quite a bit more and my responsibilities were less. Yet I am stubborn in my own way. I knew the consumer hire and I did not know anyone in the new job setting and was still smarting from the termination at the other agency. Who was to say that it could not happen again? Oh me of little faith. So I need prayer and people that can support me in something I know I have gifts for and at the same time will take all my energy to make it work in a way that myself and others can accept. So yes God answers prayer and yet the journey marches on. Yes I am married. That could be enough, but it is not. I fear she will get tired of me and will kick me out on the streets.....then what-the connections are just not there yet. Pray that I can stay faithful to my call and my wife and my quest to make my new job in Erie work. God bless. Drifter. |
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