My fellow rams,

Are you ever at work like "WTF, DUDE. This is too boring and I need to unleash my energy pronto!!" I've been going crazy at work recently and these last three hours today are going very slowly. I need to MOVE. But that could be my Gem Mars talking as well 😛

Do you work a desk job?

This is why I like serving. It's nonstop for like 5-6 hours and I go home with money.

Also, the other perk is that if it's dead, you get to go home early haha. Restaurants do not keep employees around when it's slow and there's nothing going on.

"Sales are low, it's dead. You're cut. Get out of here."

Yes, unfortunately I do lo lat a law firm. I'm the receptionist, office assistant, billing assistant and do paralegal work. It sounds like I'm busy, but not always. It can be really slow. And it's just so quiet and boring. Fuck, an Aries should not be pushing papers unless they run the place lol I enjoy physical activity and when I worked in a restaurant, time FLEW by. Way more my pace. This work is just so mundane majority of the time. -_-

I may sound ungrateful for my job. I'm lucky to have it, but truth be told it's not feeding my soul, or my energy. :/

I'm a Gemini Mars too.

I've had a desk job 95% of my career. I've had high anxiety jobs like when I was a television producer... at a desk but heart racing multi-tasking. Desk didn't matter - mind racing.

I stop and do desk yoga, push-ups, and/or dance while listening to music.

I have elevated my computer so I can stand and work.

Now with a staff of six, I am often moving from one staff member's desk to another... alot... and to meetings. So, I move around alot.

As a Gemini Moon, Mars, and Saturn (5th House) I've always got a project, whether personal or professional, in queue... often like 10 of them. As each project, task, or idea is closer to fruition, importance, being fully defined, they rise to execution level. There are two mental tracks working: short term, long term projects and tasks ... and those are prioritized as the idea, project, task is fully conceptualized.

Yes it's hell. That's why i gave up work 15 years ago and became a cycler...I spend a lot of the year just riding around, sleeping in a tent.

Posted by xomelindabelle
Yes, unfortunately I do lo lat a law firm. I'm the receptionist, office assistant, billing assistant and do paralegal work. It sounds like I'm busy, but not always. It can be really slow. And it's just so quiet and boring. Fuck, an Aries should not be pushing papers unless they run the place lol I enjoy physical activity and when I worked in a restaurant, time FLEW by. Way more my pace. This work is just so mundane majority of the time. -_-

Booooring. I don't blame you. I mean I can rock office work, but on slow days it's like omg wtf do I dooooo? Play Farmville on Facebook?? At an old job, on those days my boss would saddle me with stupid fuck busy work because he disliked he was paying me to do "nothing" even though I'd finished everything that needed to be done. It's like gee, thanks for the appreciation of being an efficient employee.

People like to knock that I'm a server, but it's a pretty nifty job to get you by in the meantime. Short hours, decent cash for the hours worked, busy environment, and when it's dead you don't have to stick around unless you're a closer. If I'm gonna get stuck in a job to tide me over while reorganizing life, I'd rather it be this. I couldn't do retail again after serving. The instant money is way too addicting haha.

Posted by starlover
Aren't you a doctor rocky?

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No, but I want to go to school to be a PA. Just been resettling my life since my mom passed- being her caretaker put grad school plans on hold.

I just know a lot of random stuff from being a caretaker, having clinical experience with athletes + first responder certs, reading a lot of stuff on my own, and my exercise science degree.

If I was actually a doc, I'd never be on DXP haha. There would be nooo time.

Posted by xomelindabelle
Yes, unfortunately I do lo lat a law firm. I'm the receptionist, office assistant, billing assistant and do paralegal work. It sounds like I'm busy, but not always. It can be really slow. And it's just so quiet and boring. Fuck, an Aries should not be pushing papers unless they run the place lol I enjoy physical activity and when I worked in a restaurant, time FLEW by. Way more my pace. This work is just so mundane majority of the time. -_-

Is there a promotion you are waiting on for a more active position within the firm or a similar position in the firm that requires more mobility? (runner, lobbyist type work?) I get this way and only complain when I have to sit or very routinely document the same thing (like the fridge/freezer temperatures for labs{yep, still cold}, equipment checks for obselete equipment {still broken}, or the like). I am only happy when there are a ton of outside or unexpected tasks to complete.

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Posted by starlover
Aren't you a doctor rocky?

No, but I want to go to school to be a PA. Just been resettling my life since my mom passed- being her caretaker put grad school plans on hold.

I just know a lot of random stuff from being a caretaker, having clinical experience with athletes + first responder certs, reading a lot of stuff on my own, and my exercise science degree.

If I was actually a doc, I'd never be on DXP haha. There would be nooo time.

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RRI! I want to be a PA too. Im am at the end of getting the prereqs and got accepted into a program for the following term once I complete those. I am told it will always be challenging and new experiences, and I enjoyed shadowing PAs as well as the speed at which they work and evaluate patients for diagnosis when I was deciding to become a nurse, social worker, or PA. Im already thinking about the PANCE and specialites. Are you going to specialize after you finish school?

Flavia, I have no idea why I can't see your post here, but I can see it when it's logged out (tons o posts went missing vs the actual count shown in the forum).

RRI! I want to be a PA too. Im am at the end of getting the prereqs and got accepted into a program for the following term once I complete those. I am told it will always be challenging and new experiences, and I enjoyed shadowing PAs as well as the speed at which they work and evaluate patients for diagnosis when I was deciding to become a nurse, social worker, or PA. Im already thinking about the PANCE and specialites. Are you going to specialize after you finish school?

My issue is having to go back and redo prereqs as well as a few extra that are still needed. I've forgotten where you live, but in CA, becoming a PA is a bitch. On top of the 3.0 average in your science courses (anatomy, physiology, chem) they have to have been taken within 5 years of applying for the program. To top it off, you have to have 2k hours of PAID experience (volunteer work doesn't count).

It really presses you for time when you're juggling life stuff as well. That said, I'd have to go back and redo those science classes since it's been beyond 5 years, I was working on getting a job that would count for hours, but THAT was a bitch because the way places hire college grads is fucking asinine. Nevermind that all the schools in the area are severely impacted in the sciences, so THAT'S delayed as well.

I talked to a PA of my mom's doc and she was like "that's why I went to Arizona to get my PA stuff done. California makes it SO hard!"

If I were to do PA, I'd probably focus on orthopedics or anything related in that area. With all the stuff I've learned from athletic training, kinesiology, and from the various things I saw at the doc's office (he was an orthopedic oncologist), it's all really fascinating.


My problem is that my BS gave me way too many options to toy with. I've also been considering MPH, nutrition, and still contemplating athletic training, but I really doubt I'd consider it at this rate. The job market for it sucks, the hours are sooo long, the pay isn't all that great (I make more serving an hour than I would be using a degree + cert with ATC), and the politics involved is just blegh. ...which is shitty because the field itself I love.

Omg there it is. Nvm I can see it now.

gah, this website. :/

Posted by rockyroadicecream
Omg there it is. Nvm I can see it now.

gah, this website. :/

LOL it's been like this for years and usually the bugs work out.

Im not from CA but mine had to be within 5 years too so I did it by taking all my courses over 8 week courses at community colleges (regionally that are set to go into a Bachelors in Physician Assistant Studies). I took one at a time (2 a semester; so one in the first part of a 16 week semester and the second in the second part) so I knocked out 4 sciences with lab in a Fall and Spring semester. I already had a Bachelors but no sciences that worked toward the program I was going into (wrong course name, not enough BIO, etc.).

I shadowed a PA whose specialization was Ortho and he loves it. The clinic was busy and he always taught me terminology and included me in with any classes he was teaching in-between shifts. There are a few specialties I am interested in that all lead to the same place for counseling. What I had to do was shadow each profession and that is why I am so set on PA now. A year ago I was still considering all of the ones I listed.

But in Cali, all the community colleges are insanely impacted in the math and science courses. I had serious seniority working for me by the time I finished up at mine. Even then, getting classes was getting difficult. Most are enrolling more students than there are class offerings. Wait listing was crazy, and people were just crashing first day classes for a spot.

I did talk to someone who's in a program at the school whose hospital my mom was getting a majority of her treatment from and they offer an A&P course for like 8-12 weeks and it meets the requirement for both classes at the same time, so that's a plus. It's just pricey because it's a private university.

So lack of class availability that doesn't cost a fortune, plus that 2k paid experience hours is what's really putting a wrench in the works. :/

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Posted by bricklemark
Yes it's hell. That's why i gave up work 15 years ago and became a cycler...I spend a lot of the year just riding around, sleeping in a tent.

Badass!

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You really think so? I didnt really have a choice, I have a temper, and I've yelled my way out of many commitments, most accidentally 🙂