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Sorry it didn't work out for you but it is nice that you wanted to help our vets. Perhaps just subtly try to network at the Elks event that you are potentially available now, perhaps unfairly my image of Elks Clubs are of older men & some might know/need of assistance.
Some might remember (1980s?) the business book The Peter Principle which offered that in an organization people will rise up until they hit their level of incompetence & there they will stay. Your agency situation reminded me of this.
Yes, absolutely. The woman supposedly in charge had some clinical skills but no managerial/admiinistrative. I thought of the Peter principle often in RN jobs.
The Elks here are indeed a lot of older people (men and women) and a friend of mine is the veterans agent, so some opportunities for volunteering should come up. In a couple of weeks, we're going to the V.A. Hospital 100 miles away to have an ice cream social. People seem to enjoy that a lot from past experience.
There are currently over 40 caregiver jobs in the city where my 93 year old mother is in an assisted living facility. They require people 24/7 so you can probably set the hours to avoid driving during darkness. From what I have heard all of them are having trouble finding people. Perhaps see if there are any adult family homes, assisted living facilities, or even senior apartments in your area that need your help.
I looked into this as a temp gig while living one year in Corpus Christi, TX, before retiring down here. They required being bilingual and you'd be on-call, various hours, various locations, split shifts. No thanks. In fact, almost every job required bilingual.
It's tough when you're older. Neither DH or I could find even a low-level job there, so just decided to retire then and there....
In general, caregiver jobs pay pitifully. Which is a big reason why so many of them go unfilled. I doubt the OP is interested in working so hard for so little pay.
I was willing to work for the RN pay in my former agency. I think people don't get the difference in home health aides and home health skilled nursing.
I am relieved to be finished with the agency. Never saw such weirdness in a job.
You said the post office was hiring. The clerks in the 2 small town post offices that I'm familiar with appear to have a low stress job. The small post office near me closes for 1 1/2 hours every day for lunch.
After being retired for 4 years, I came out of retirement to be part of the management team on a large scale construction project, I tired of the poor upper management (IMO) bad decisions and stress of the job and will go back into retirement in about month. Really the only thing I'll miss is the income and I'll miss some of the people.
If I really needed the money, I would go to the post office. After all those years of stress and night shifts in the hospital, I feel incapable of pushing myself to do anything I don't really have to do. Thanks to all for suggestions but I am fine not working at present.
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