personal thoughts

I hit 50 likes!

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I realize that 50 likes are nothing to be excited about (for some people), but I need to take advantage of every small success I get. I’ve had this blog for a while now, and until recently, it hadn’t received much attention. To be fair, I wasn’t really dedicated to writing a blog post a day, so it’s no one’s fault but my own that my blog wasn’t growing.

I’m trying out several different writing website systems, and eventually, I will review them, but for right now, I will continue to make this blog a priority. Thank you for reading the different entries and for the likes you’ve given me.

Work is stealing my soul.

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I only work four days a week (ten-hour days), and I still feel like I have so little time to myself. I have an hour’s drive there and back, and by the time I’ve arrived at my house, I don’t feel like doing anything. I struggle to make dinner for my son and me, and then I attempt to use the rest of my evening hanging out with my kid. Once it is bedtime for him, that’s my cue to also fall asleep. It is next to impossible for me to do anything that I consider a “hobby.”

I feel like all of my coworkers are suffering from burnout. We do our work in a small clinic, and there are only so many patients that we can see in a day. We’ve never had the number of staff we need to accurately assess 50 patients a day, but we do our best. We have a new clinic being constructed, which can’t come fast enough.

With the surge in cases, we see a higher volume of calls from people who are afraid that they have covid. Although many of them have been vaccinated, the second someone sniffles in their household, they are convinced that it is the virus. I wish the media would report each night that if you think you have Covid, you need to take a deep breath and treat it as you would influenza. I’m not saying the two viruses are the same. I am merely being honest in admitting that there isn’t much we can do to treat Covid.

I am ready for the world to go back to normal. I don’t think that’s ever going to happen, but I’m hoping to at least find a new, less stressful career because Covid has made the world of healthcare unbearable.

Coursera: what is it? Is it worthwhile?

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I’ve always had a slight interest in bookkeeping, and since I’m looking to one day have my own business, I got the idea to take a course that would teach me more about the subject. After researching, I noticed many different websites recommending the course offered by intuit. With tax season quickly approaching, I thought now would be a great time to dive into the topic. I went to sign up, and it offered me the chance to sign up with Coursera. I decided to try it, although the stiff price of $40 a month made me almost reconsider.

I’m one week into the class, and I really do like it, even if I still feel like the subject isn’t for me. I know that I will never do someone else’s bookwork, but I also realize that I will need to do mine because there is no way I will make enough, in the beginning, to pay someone else to do it. The sections are broken up into small chunks, making them easier to digest. I also like the discussion portion because tons of people seem to be taking the course simultaneously that I am. I don’t typically see anyone replying to others, but people’s responses to the initial question are fun to read. I look forward to getting deeper into the details. As with all topics, once you get past the surface information, you begin to get into the fascinating

information.

Coursera is impressive because it has so many different classes that you can take. While I went there looking for the bookkeeping course, I found a ton of other avenues to investigate. I just enrolled in a class called “Inspiring and Motivating Individuals,” offered through the University of Michigan. All these courses are self-study and, while you’re encouraged to set a weekly goal for completion, you can always change your plans to fit your schedule.

For $40 a month, you get access to many top-notch courses offered by some of the elite universities in the county. Most of these courses are a part of some certificate that you can eventually obtain. I love the access to learning, and I love that all these different courses are available without going to a single one of these schools.

I will definitely be checking in periodically with updates to this product because it seems to have a lot of promise, and I want to share that with everyone.

If you’re interested in checking something out, use this link: here.