If it's not one thing, it's another. I'm not working at the beauty salon anymore - it was a temp position that I got through a temp agency and the assignment ended. To occupy my time until I get offered something else, I'm taking a couple of classes. One is a Psych class and another is a social work class called Group Participation. After meeting the instructors today, I'm pretty sure that at least one of them will be an easy A given I put the time in. I'm hoping that the Group Participation class will help me with what I'm trying to do at Peer counseling (my other job).
To give a little background, Peer counseling, which I do at a gay community center, has limited hours due to funding. Each counselor works one night a week, and the same night every week, with the same people. We all meet once a month for a meeting, a training from an outside agency that we tend to refer people to, or additional counseling training. This takes place on the first hour. The second hour is a supervision, in which a professional therapist meets with us to discuss problem clients and the group at large can give feedback.
I am going to approach my supervisor at my peer counseling job about taking on another shift (Friday nights) and getting comfortable with that dynamic. The shift has been problematic for quite some time, partly because it happens to be the "special" shift, the shift where Steve sticks people that wouldn't fit well with the other nights.
I know all of the counselors that work that evening and I think I understand what most of their strengths and weaknesses are. I think that with some diplomacy and observation, I can turn that night around and greatly improve the dynamic.
The trick will be getting Steve to agree to it. I know that it's highly unusual for a peer counselor to work on two different nights at the same time, not counting annual trainings. He was originally very unenthusiastic about letting me try managing Friday nights, but I think that's mainly for two arbitrary reasons.
1. He is biased because he likes having me on Tuesday nights, he knows I'm a good counselor and someone he relies on. Also, we're friends. He doesn't want to lose me.
2. He sees me (and women general) as lacking the authority to handle a regular group, much less a difficult group). He sees me as lacking assertiveness, which is somewhat unfounded but based on the fact that I can be softspoken at times.
I need to point out the lack of diversity among shift leaders (they are all white, middle aged men - and so is Steve), even though there are two female assistant managers. The current lineup of shit leaders has not changed since when I started working there 2 1/2 years ago, because it's pretty uncommon for people to change nights in general, except if something changes with work or school, etc. I don't think that Steve is sexist, but I do think that he finds women to command less authority than men do in general. Besides which, I am half the age of the current shift leaders, and two of the people on Friday nights are old enough to be my grandparents. I am sure that he's concerned that they won't listen to me.
SO! I am going to have to figure out how to propose this to him the right way, but I think I can do it. Wish me luck!
To give a little background, Peer counseling, which I do at a gay community center, has limited hours due to funding. Each counselor works one night a week, and the same night every week, with the same people. We all meet once a month for a meeting, a training from an outside agency that we tend to refer people to, or additional counseling training. This takes place on the first hour. The second hour is a supervision, in which a professional therapist meets with us to discuss problem clients and the group at large can give feedback.
I am going to approach my supervisor at my peer counseling job about taking on another shift (Friday nights) and getting comfortable with that dynamic. The shift has been problematic for quite some time, partly because it happens to be the "special" shift, the shift where Steve sticks people that wouldn't fit well with the other nights.
I know all of the counselors that work that evening and I think I understand what most of their strengths and weaknesses are. I think that with some diplomacy and observation, I can turn that night around and greatly improve the dynamic.
The trick will be getting Steve to agree to it. I know that it's highly unusual for a peer counselor to work on two different nights at the same time, not counting annual trainings. He was originally very unenthusiastic about letting me try managing Friday nights, but I think that's mainly for two arbitrary reasons.
1. He is biased because he likes having me on Tuesday nights, he knows I'm a good counselor and someone he relies on. Also, we're friends. He doesn't want to lose me.
2. He sees me (and women general) as lacking the authority to handle a regular group, much less a difficult group). He sees me as lacking assertiveness, which is somewhat unfounded but based on the fact that I can be softspoken at times.
I need to point out the lack of diversity among shift leaders (they are all white, middle aged men - and so is Steve), even though there are two female assistant managers. The current lineup of shit leaders has not changed since when I started working there 2 1/2 years ago, because it's pretty uncommon for people to change nights in general, except if something changes with work or school, etc. I don't think that Steve is sexist, but I do think that he finds women to command less authority than men do in general. Besides which, I am half the age of the current shift leaders, and two of the people on Friday nights are old enough to be my grandparents. I am sure that he's concerned that they won't listen to me.
SO! I am going to have to figure out how to propose this to him the right way, but I think I can do it. Wish me luck!
dovanna:
Luck!
applejugs:
Im sorry to hear that the jorb did not work out. Good luck.