Jeff, what state do you live in?

iowa

In Connecticut we have a Bureau of Rehabiliation Services that helps people with disabilites find jobs. You don't have to be receiving disability. It is through the state. Do they have anything like that in Iowa?

I decided to take the jeopardy online test y'all, practicing right now, watching jeopardy and trying to answer with the correct question.................wish me luck y'all

yes they do.. the person they stuck me with was a relic whose only idea was that i should move away from home and put myself into debt to find a job.. my family doesn't have a security blanket. if i ended up getting let go (with this economy who knows whose job is safe), i would be in deep trouble. I tried to get another consuler but the person i talked to got defensive when i suggested that the other person was ill suited for the modern occupational world.

btw good luck with the jeopardy test amber

That is just wrong. If I were you I would ask for that person's supervisor.

ty jeff

I got fed up of wasting time and gas to go visit a relic with ideas that don't work anymore. He had me cold calling companies trying to get a hold of not HR people but managers. Mangers got more on their hands than to be bothering getting calls from people looking for work. He stare at me like it was my fault that my family is poor and cant afford to ship me off to the big city to find a job.

Jeff,if I were you I would go above him and find out who his supervisor is. He is not helping you.

It is like that in the nursing community, too, Jeff. Actually we get information like that in our inservices. Our last video we saw called, "Bathing Without A Battle" addressed antiquated ways of bathing the elderly. In the video the RN asked another nurse if she would like to try out the bathing chair. The nurse tried it and reported that it was very uncomfortable. She said it scared her to have her feet off the floor; She felt like her buttocks was going to go through the hole in the chair and the straightback chair gave her a pain in her back. So the RN put a childseat in the hole which was padded; Put a box on the floor for her feet so she wouldn't feel like she was falling off and draped a towel on the back of the chair. Then she said now try it and she said it was comfortable but she still didn't want to be bathed without any clothes on. Now the bathing technique is mandatory and to do it otherwise than what is showed in the video can get a CNA fired. Yeah, I have dealt with managers like that who think they are better than you. It might be just me but I don't think I would want to work with managers with that kind of attitude, anyways. I was looking for a job when I came to interview with them, anyways. Let them hire some other fool because this fool don't want their job and attitude. I hope you find some job with people who would be worthy of you.

me to rainbow
but for right now im kinda suck where im at

okay i am pmsing,i have had a toothache for a month and i am TERIFIED of the dentist,i feel like ****,my job sucks right now and i have grown a big age spot under my nose.
Gimme some f@#$king choclate!!

This is the depression support area, right?

Well anybody ever felt like this? I sometimes have the feeling that if somebody offered me 2 choices:

A) $100 million tax free, or:
B) Cancer and I'll be gone within a year

I'm not sure which one I'd choose.

Hands Cute some choclate.......

I have lost so much wieght that now my skin looks like ****, I have a brown spot on my face that is shaped wierd and Im afraid to go to the Dr.....All my wrinkles in my face are showing more than ever, I have to take hormones to keep from feeling ike a unich, swallow my sanity two times a day, take my classes, volunteer my time, do my homework, and deal with bing a part of the art club, I can't sleep and when I do it sucks, I have to get to school at 7 to fight for a place to park just so I can get to class on time at 9. My mood swings are getting worse and I always think Ive done something wrong and am ultra sensitive, I think ohters dont like me or think I did something wrong or are back biting, which Im trying very hard to avoid, shall I go on??? Sighhhhhhh, my turn to complain.

Well in my book if i chose the 100 million i would probally contract cancer so I'll take the money and take my chances.Mac life is hard and we all have felt like you do at one time or another.hugs..

Karen hugs to you and thanx for the chocalate.How's the piece coming?

(((Jax))), the piece is coming along. Im at a stopping point cuz I have to wait on things to dry and such. Had to draw a portrait over the weekend. Had to use myself as a modle. I deliberately made it look like someone else. Cant draw faces, hands or feet yet. Now we are starting on stone again. I know how to do it, but it is time consumeing, as well as having to finsih my other art work for my other classes.

It won't be done until March, and the stone is the next project so I have to sit out in the cold and rain cuz the rock dust is poisonous. I just cant make myself do it. I seriously want to get off my meds so I can really create. Meds slow me down, and suppress my creativity. I have so many things I want to do and cant cuz I dont know how yet.

I write everything down in journal. Draw sketches and stuff like that. Dont get me wrong, I love school, but damn it, Im tired and this damned anxiety is kicking me in the ass. My teacher was being cold to me lately, and I didn't know why until after the art show. She knew I was going to get the scholarship and I think she wanted to tell me so instead stayed away from me. That made me nervous and grumpy.

She also did something I really didn'tlike, and i will have to talk to her about it. Some of her statues came up missing. I was standing inthe doorway and told her a lot f stuff went missing over the holiday break, and she said I know and then poked me hard with 2 fingers right in the sholder and told me to get out of her way. **** all she had to do was say move. The poking was not necessary! So then I was so pissed, I just went out to have a cigg and came back in and destryoed all the leaves I had been working on fo 2 weeks. She had been *****ing that the wax I used was 4 times as expensive as what the others were using. I was given that wax by the tech there. He was only trying to help and I didnt think I had done anything wrong. I think she thought I had just helped myself to everything.

Im tired of getting my head bit off, keeping secrets so I dont get caught up in the drama. The come to me asking questions that aer obviously someting they thought I knew, pumping me for info. I just change the subject or give them a Y/N answer.

I have too many problems with my head than o have to deal with that ****. Ive had enough and have decided to just keep my mouth shut, not accept any help and stay away from people when Im there. No personal contact. Business only. If something comes up missing again, I will not try to help find it! I will just got back to whatever I was doing. I will not ask for help, I will just do my projects and if I need to know how to do something, i will google it and find out how to do it myself.

I will not loan or give away anymore of my supplies ( I have had them never returned or broken) and if someone comes to me for help Im sending them to the teacher. Frick this crap! People seem to confuse my being nice with being weak. They have a big lesson coming Ill tell you that right now!

The scholarship was originally 600 bucks but I tied with another student, so they split it between us. I have no problemn with that. Any kind of help is fine with me, but from now on, no more handouts, trades, or loans. I will not hand out anymore cigs to anyone. ****! One day I gave out 5 cigs to people wanting to bum them. No More. I have started telling them that I had to bum the one I was smoking or just flat out no!

Ok I could rant all night but I think Ill stop here.

Well thanks for the words of encourgement, cutelil. Especially the humor. Humor is a great remedy.

These are the times I should just deactivate........I hardly ever rant. I just go hermit. Thinking I should go hermit again.

your school sounds like my work.backbiting etc.I only trust one person there.sad huh?
My son ,who is seven,wants to be an artist but he wants to be able to draw real people,animals etc not cartoony ones.He isnt at that skill level yet and it frustrates him because his imagination is endless.Plus if someone critisises his art ,he thinks he can't draw.I told him there will always be critiques out there and he must draw for the pleasure it gives him not for the adoration of a fickle public.Your art teacher sounds like a frustrated artist herself.Brandon has a wonderful art teacher thank God.
Stay true to your art Karen and the rest will follow seriously.