Work Work Work and more Work

I got my EMT certification done back in december hoping to be able to get clinical experience in that but unfortunately most schools now require you to have paid hours of experience no longer just volunteering experience. Here in Utah most of the fire departments just hire firefighters for the EMT positions and just rotate them, I guess is more cost efficient for them to have them cross-trained to be both EMT and firefighters. So it would be really hard for me to find a full time position being an EMT. So I had to come up with plan "b" to get my clinical experience...So I finally took my CNA test after putting it off for a whole year it sucked because I had to re-read the entire book and walk through all the skills tests on my own versus just going to do it right after I took the class last summer! Oh well I guess I was super busy working off hours to pay off for our wedding photographer and getting everything else ready for the wedding! I finally studied for it right after we got back from California and went and took the written and practical test and passed both thus enabling me a job as a CNA and hopefully get 2,000 hours of clinical experience over the course of the next 10 months in order to apply for PA programs  I was a bit scared of having to find a full time CNA job I would have loved to work at a hospital nearby but here in Utah is so hard to get a CNA position without experience or without knowing anyone at the particular hospital to get you in the door. I was fortunate to find 1 full time job at Alpine Valley Care Center is in (Pleasent grove), not too far from Orem and starting the middle of October I will be working morning shifts 6am-2pm. This is a nursing as well as a little bit of rehabilitation center. I was also very blessed that Stonehenge of Orem called me for a PRN (as needed) position, so I will be able to take on extra shifts! This one is just short term rehab patients who come and stay at the facility anywhere from a week to 3 months. This will be interesting to see how it works out a year from now, CNA job is not a job that I see myself doing more than a year, it's quite tiring being on your feet for 8-12 hour shifts, the only good thing is that time seems to fly by and then it's time to go home! The only super sucky thing that was not fun is that I think Jon got me partially sick (cold) and at work they gave me a flu shot which just shot down my immune system and I had to work/train this past week while being super sick. I'm still not at 100% but at least I feel a lot better! Jon is now in his last and final year of school, hopefully he will be graduating next summer... The plan is to work hard and get my hours and apply to grad school and hopefully be able to pay off a large sum or Jon's school loans.