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Originally Posted by mavsgirl4134
I work at a hospital serving food to patients. I only work part-time but I go to school full time. I know you said that you would have to work 11:30-8 and every other weekend you have to work 13 hours. (which is really weird..) Do you know if they will be flexible with your schedule? The hospital I work at is really flexible with school schedules. Every other weekend isn't THAT bad.  I have to work every weekend which really sucks.
I have to say it is easy work, but you will see a lot of stuff that you probably will not want to see, and be around a lot people that you have NO idea what they have. I personally have delivered trays to two dead people and didn't know they had passed, and I've had to be tested for TB because there was a patient that had it and somehow noone knew about it. But then again, every hospital is different, so you may not deal with the same stuff I do.
Oh and another thing, will you be going to school for something in health care? Even though you would be working with dietary, you still meet a lot of people from different fields and can learn A LOT. That is one good thing.
Education should really be your priority, so I would go with something that will be better for you while you're in school. |
To answer all ya'lls questions........................I'm 24. After i graduated high school, i majored in Restaurant management. I was so sure i wanted to do it. And 2yrs into college, i grew to hate it. Something that stuck in my mind was something my manager said to me 4yrs ago: "I see you more than i see my family." He said it so subtle, but it stuck in my mind. And when i told my advisor that line, he really couldn't rebutt it. He mentioned 1 major restaurant that had decent hours.
All the while i went to college for restaurant management, i was a volunteer figherfighter. And i originally wanted to major in Fire Science, but the only college that had the major was about an hour away from my house. So a buddy of mine was telling me about becoming a Paramedic. At first i just thought nothing of it. Then the more i thought about it, the more warm i was to the idea. So i switched my major to EMS.
At that point, i was kinda like Robillion. I was 20yrs old, and i got a little tired of school, and starting from scratch was going to be so stressful, so i took a semester off. And after that, i took some core classes. I was in and out of school for 3yrs. And i finally took my EMT-Basic class last semester. Although i loved it to death, i had to drop it because it was hard to focus in class at 7 in the morning, i didn't have a steady work schedule, and i had to learn so much in so little time.
The bottom line is the reason i want to work full-time is because i don't need to go to school full-time. With EMS, you take 1 class at a time, and after each class you have to work a certain amount of hours as an EMT before you take the next class. So i could work a regular 9-5 job and go to school during the evening. But the job i'm offered, school is out for at least the fall semester.