I find myself reacting that way a lot these days. There's so much involved in scheduling for certain specialties that it can get very confusing quite quickly. There's the basics, the more involved basics and then it kind of jumps to difficult and complicated to "wait... what??" I really appreciate the challenge, though. I like knowing that I am in the most challenging of departments. Only certain people are trained to cover because of how involved and complicated it can be so it gets a little tight when someone is out sick or on vacation.

I started taking inbound calls yesterday, making outbound calls today. I'll be learning how to do numbers and letters {go ahead, make jokes} tomorrow. The most complicated appointments out of all of them will be dotted throughout the day so that I can get in to the habit of how to properly schedule them.

Tomorrow is already starting out to be a good day. First, it's Friday. That's a win right there. Second, it's payday. This will be my first check with the new job and I'm excited to see what it'll look like with the pay increase. Third, it's a three-day weekend. So definite bonus with next week being a short week. Tuesday will be swamped with calls, but that's okay. I still have tomorrow to get more comfortable with it.

I've also realized just how awesome it is to have an ergonomic keyboard. I had tried, briefly, to use them in the past and didn't care much for them. Now? I can type just as quickly, if not faster, than on a regular keyboard. I still make just as many mistakes, but I don't think I'll be able to easily go back to using a regular desktop keyboard {I doubt they'll ever make ergonomic keyboards on laptops.}

As nice as this change is and with how excited I am for the change, I'm definitely glad that it's the weekend. My brain needs some rest. I completely understand why the training is 4 weeks long. It used to be 6 weeks, but some things changed and I guess they were able to streamline it.

I have an eye appointment late Saturday morning, meeting up with a friend to go shopping for her trip Sunday afternoon and I'm taking her and her boyfriend to the airport Monday evening. Other than those few plans, I'll probably just chill out at home and enjoy the time to rest and not think about work. There will definitely be a lot of time spent in pajamas.

I'm pretty weirded out by ergonomic keyboards, personally, but I haven't had much experience with them. What do you like about them? Just the fact that they're... ergonomic? Haha
» randomjunk on 2015-01-16 03:33:53

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