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Job update: I still really love my job. It is such a healthy change over from EMS. In order to function in EMS it is necessary for one to be predominantly emotionally closed off. In many ways, that's what drew me to EMS. I have been learning to become more in touch with and accepting/compassionate about my own emotions - thus increasing my empathy, and I outgrew EMS... It just doesn't fit anymore. So while I took a big pay cut, every penny is worth it, because I'm happy at work.

Some of the women that I really liked working with invited me to go out to the bar with them after work last night. It was so much fun! They are so different then all of my EMS friends - more like my Hampshire homies... I think I really made some new friends!

One of the cottages that I really like working in requested to have me as their permanent fill in. That makes me feel so good! There are campus counselors who have been there much longer, and they requested ME! :)

One of our clients with pretty severe paranoid schizophrenia had multiple melt downs last night. It's so sad, because she can't understand it, and she can't process what we're saying to her to help calm her down.... This really isn't the right facility for her, but it's what the government will pay for. She has a really understanding therapist there, and she has her own set of rules within the campus rules... since she can't really follow many of them because she isn't capable of understanding them... It's sad. But when she's in a good mood, her laughter is SO infectious! I really have a soft spot for her.