Under my Hat

So... the work based learning driving is done... and I have 30 days... other than the holiday... to schedule before the end of the year... so I shouldn't be working any full weeks for the balance of the year... suits me fine... I look forward to planning some time off... but I'm holding on to most of them for as long as I can, because I am still certain a closing is eminent. Also the new WIOA... which replaces the defunct WIA will be signed into law soon... and according to the language, low performing centers will be taken from the operators and placed for bid for other companies or organizations to bid on them... this would mean since 14 of the Forest Service centers are in the bottom quintile of the centers in existence.. those 14 would be removed from the care of the Forest Service and put up for bid.  I suppose it won't be long before I will be leaving my current center... one way or another. We (my class) spent the latter part of last week moving back to our old lo...

I still say happiness is a choice.. no matter what things in our life are weighing us down... or fighting against us.. it's still possible to be happy.  Look at me... I'm the most happy I've ever been in my entire life... despite the stupidity I have to put up with on a daily basis... yeah... I reserve the right to call stupid... stupid... I'm not really fond of that word... but it fits so well in my situation. The management where I work... say that there's nothing wrong with waking students up at 5 am... to catch a ride with other Work-based learing students going to another city.... arriving at work 90 minutes early... after a 2 hour ride... then working all day... another 2 hour ride home... to get back on the center at 10 pm or after.... in bed about 11... to be woken up again the next morning by 5 am again... sure it can be done... but to expect it regularly from a trainee? ...I think someone is fucked in the head if you ask me.. I got the final numbers for ...

A year and a half after I was certain they would close my center... here it is.. still chugging along. It is as inadequately run as ever... and it keeps getting worse... which I was certain could never happen.... but it does. I am still moving slowly toward my goal... but it's a very, very slow movement. Still... it IS a movement. I don't feel like I'm spinning my wheels... at least not for the most part.  The work-based learning is still going on... only because I'm now at 6 weeks of use or lose time before the end of the year.... so starting Aug 1... I won't be working a 5 day workweek for the rest of the year... I will have 1 - 2 days off every week... some I'm scheduling Thurs, Fri, and Mon... to get a 5 day weekend... I have several of those. I am just wishing the people in our National Office... Denver... would get off their asses and make a decision about the fate of our center... If I had been blogging all along, I would have everyone on the same page a...