Re: Whatcha thinking about now? (v2)
So, I have the potential to move to Minnesota until May to get my clinicals done. The funeral home I would be working with is about 6 hours from home. They work primarily with Native families on reservations, and I’d have the opportunity to learn about Native religion and funeral rites and make contacts there, which is awesome. But I would be away from home for months, except for a few weeks here and there. It would be about a $15k/yr increase from where I’m at now financially.
I plan to ask for my schedule to be 10 days on 4 off so that I can come home for a long weekend every other week, and for two weeks off in December, a week in Feb. and a week in Apr. I’m not expecting to get paid for those 4 weeks, but I need time to come home and be with my family. I have six months left to go, and if I don’t do this, I’m going to fail my clinicals and the program. In the last year I’ve accumulated more in student loans, spent so much time studying and preparing, and I have life dreams that I’m basing on this career path, not to mention fulfilling a spiritual calling. It’s sooo damn important to me.
But if I do this, I’ll be missing a lot in the first year with our new daughter, not to mention time with my 5yo who will notice that I’m gone that long and probably remember this and hold it against me forever... That may be being a bit dramatic, but who am I kidding, she's a dramatic kid. And that’s making me really sad.
So, I have the potential to move to Minnesota until May to get my clinicals done. The funeral home I would be working with is about 6 hours from home. They work primarily with Native families on reservations, and I’d have the opportunity to learn about Native religion and funeral rites and make contacts there, which is awesome. But I would be away from home for months, except for a few weeks here and there. It would be about a $15k/yr increase from where I’m at now financially.
I plan to ask for my schedule to be 10 days on 4 off so that I can come home for a long weekend every other week, and for two weeks off in December, a week in Feb. and a week in Apr. I’m not expecting to get paid for those 4 weeks, but I need time to come home and be with my family. I have six months left to go, and if I don’t do this, I’m going to fail my clinicals and the program. In the last year I’ve accumulated more in student loans, spent so much time studying and preparing, and I have life dreams that I’m basing on this career path, not to mention fulfilling a spiritual calling. It’s sooo damn important to me.
But if I do this, I’ll be missing a lot in the first year with our new daughter, not to mention time with my 5yo who will notice that I’m gone that long and probably remember this and hold it against me forever... That may be being a bit dramatic, but who am I kidding, she's a dramatic kid. And that’s making me really sad.
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