A New Season of Life
Sep. 12th, 2019 02:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
randomramblingtidbitsWell, it's official. I sat for my state board exam on August 9th and passed! All I have to do is wait for the veterinarian board to finish processing the paperwork (estimate date is September 19th) and pay the fees and I will officially be a certified veterinary technician!
I didn't get the results till the end of August because it was a scan tron test (compared to nationals where it was computerized so you get an immediate answer) so I was on pins and needles fearing that I failed. Now helping matters was that I kept going to job interviews after job interview, getting my hopes up and then being told they went with someone else. There was a point where I was really down and was wondering what the point was. I felt that nobody would ever hire me.
But then, the day after I got my state results, I actually got a job offer! It was a place I liked and was hoping would want me. I'm going to start next Monday and am so excited!
In the meantime, I moved out of my studio apartment that I was living in for the last semester of school. I'm living with my parents for now until I can save up enough to get my own place. I'm hoping that things go better now than the last time I lived with them, and I am being cautiously optimistic. It is kind of cute how my mom keeps seeing if there are vet shows on animal planet for us to watch together; she often asks me to explain things, such as why animals have that tube in their mouth. And it is great that they let me bring my mice with me.
I had my desktop packed up in anticipation for a move since...the end of May so I didn't have access to my drawing tablet or my steam games. I did have my table with a keyboard, so I did a lot of fanfiction writing...or at least what I think is a lot. I haven't published fanfiction before, so even one was a lot. It was a good outlet for when I need a distraction from my failed interviews, and it was kind of great to be able to interact with fandoms after being such a lurker. I even got an Archive of Our Own account! I'm RamblingAcara there!
It really feels like a new season of my life. I'm in a new field, in a new job, with my new pets, and I'm trying new things in the fan space.
I didn't get the results till the end of August because it was a scan tron test (compared to nationals where it was computerized so you get an immediate answer) so I was on pins and needles fearing that I failed. Now helping matters was that I kept going to job interviews after job interview, getting my hopes up and then being told they went with someone else. There was a point where I was really down and was wondering what the point was. I felt that nobody would ever hire me.
But then, the day after I got my state results, I actually got a job offer! It was a place I liked and was hoping would want me. I'm going to start next Monday and am so excited!
In the meantime, I moved out of my studio apartment that I was living in for the last semester of school. I'm living with my parents for now until I can save up enough to get my own place. I'm hoping that things go better now than the last time I lived with them, and I am being cautiously optimistic. It is kind of cute how my mom keeps seeing if there are vet shows on animal planet for us to watch together; she often asks me to explain things, such as why animals have that tube in their mouth. And it is great that they let me bring my mice with me.
I had my desktop packed up in anticipation for a move since...the end of May so I didn't have access to my drawing tablet or my steam games. I did have my table with a keyboard, so I did a lot of fanfiction writing...or at least what I think is a lot. I haven't published fanfiction before, so even one was a lot. It was a good outlet for when I need a distraction from my failed interviews, and it was kind of great to be able to interact with fandoms after being such a lurker. I even got an Archive of Our Own account! I'm RamblingAcara there!
It really feels like a new season of my life. I'm in a new field, in a new job, with my new pets, and I'm trying new things in the fan space.
