Relief is on the way

The little (there are only 2 of us) EAP/disaster response company I work for was awarded a contract to service another major international air carrier. The two of us are now covering the 2 largest international carriers in the world! Not too shabby. This means I get to quit working at the clinic and resume working from home full-time! We dont have an effective date yet, but we are shooting for May 1st (which also happens to be my birthday, so I'll get one hell of a present!). This means I get my life back. No more sitting at the computer every night until midnight or spending entire weekends catching up on clinic paperwork (which I dont get paid to do)! No more having to deal with crack heads and criminals! No more worrying about having enough money to pay the mortgage because 15 clients no-showed last week! No more running around with my stomach in knots! No more! Dang. I'm happy. :-D

Dont think so. We have an international network of responders (put together by your's truly) who are trained and ready to go when we need them. If it is a "minor" event, like an airport shooting or an emergency landing, I deploy the local folks and I coordinate from home. If it is a mass casualty event, my boss and I go out, in addition to the local responders. We cover North America, South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean.

I also contract with a staff of local therapists who do the disaster drills and training exercises with us so I'm set there.

We'll have to see how the daily operations go. If I get too bogged down doing administrative work, maybe we'll hire an administrative assistant. On the other hand, I have two kids who can stuff envelopes and staple things for free, so I can always put them to work.

If things really take off and we can afford office space, I would probably move to Lambertville,NJ (where the boss is). Or, with the airline industry being as it is, we could lose the contract in a year and I could be back at the clinic, nodding empathetically to felons and substance abusers.

Post #247,204 by bionerd 3/8/06 11:31:09 AM Reply	Relief is on the way The little (there are only 2 of us) EAP/disaster response company I work for was awarded a contract to service another major international air carrier. The two of us are now covering the 2 largest international carriers in the world! Not too shabby. This means I get to quit working at the clinic and resume working from home full-time! We dont have an effective date yet, but we are shooting for May 1st (which also happens to be my birthday, so I'll get one hell of a present!). This means I get my life back. No more sitting at the computer every night until midnight or spending entire weekends catching up on clinic paperwork (which I dont get paid to do)! No more having to deal with crack heads and criminals! No more worrying about having enough money to pay the mortgage because 15 clients no-showed last week! No more running around with my stomach in knots! No more! Dang. I'm happy. :-D Follow your MOUSE
Post #247,207 by Steve Lowe 3/8/06 11:47:13 AM Reply	Congrats! Will you be hiring more? -- Steve [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu]
Post #247,460 by bionerd 3/10/06 10:10:30 AM Reply	Re: Congrats! Dont think so. We have an international network of responders (put together by your's truly) who are trained and ready to go when we need them. If it is a "minor" event, like an airport shooting or an emergency landing, I deploy the local folks and I coordinate from home. If it is a mass casualty event, my boss and I go out, in addition to the local responders. We cover North America, South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. I also contract with a staff of local therapists who do the disaster drills and training exercises with us so I'm set there. We'll have to see how the daily operations go. If I get too bogged down doing administrative work, maybe we'll hire an administrative assistant. On the other hand, I have two kids who can stuff envelopes and staple things for free, so I can always put them to work. If things really take off and we can afford office space, I would probably move to Lambertville,NJ (where the boss is). Or, with the airline industry being as it is, we could lose the contract in a year and I could be back at the clinic, nodding empathetically to felons and substance abusers. Follow your MOUSE
Post #247,970 by CRConrad 3/15/06 2:42:37 AM Reply	A) "Yours", HTH. B) Why do you cover Mexico twice?
Post #247,210 by pwhysall 3/8/06 11:58:58 AM Reply	When you said "relief"... ...it was with some trepidation that I clicked on the link, because I thought the body text was going to involve jazz hands. Peter [link\|http://www.no2id.net/\|Don't Let The Terrorists Win] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
Post #247,211 by Steve Lowe 3/8/06 12:02:10 PM Reply	Trepidation? You WOULDN'T want to read about that? -- Steve [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu]
Post #247,215 by ChrisR 3/8/06 12:11:39 PM Reply	Trepanation? No Pi relief.
Post #247,219 by pwhysall 3/8/06 12:34:24 PM Reply	I'm not a member of the ZIWT Pervy Club, it seems. Peter [link\|http://www.no2id.net/\|Don't Let The Terrorists Win] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
Post #247,221 by ben_tilly 3/8/06 12:38:06 PM Reply	Congrats but... make sure now that you'll get the beep bash off this time. :-) Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #247,277 by bionerd 3/8/06 8:40:05 PM Reply	I'm on top of it I'm already negotiating benefits and vacation time. If all goes as planned, you'll see my smiling face this summer. Follow your MOUSE
Post #247,224 by Another Scott 3/8/06 12:42:57 PM Reply	Woot! :-)
Post #247,227 by rcareaga 3/8/06 2:06:48 PM Reply	ah, working from home Suspect I don't have that kind of discipline, but how splendid for you, particularly as a solo parent! I add my congrats. cordially, Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
Post #247,228 by a6l6e6x 3/8/06 2:06:57 PM Reply	Sounds great! How long term are these contracts? Make sure you leave the current job on good terms. Just in case. Alex When fascism comes to America, it'll be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross. -- Sinclair Lewis
Post #247,231 by jb4 3/8/06 2:23:29 PM Reply	erm...Huh? No more having to deal with crack heads and criminals! But...but...you deal with us every day...! jb4 "Every Repbulican who wants to defend Bush on [the expansion of Presidential powers], should be forced to say, 'I wouldn't hesitate to see President Hillary Rodham Clinton have the same authority'." &mdash an unidentified letter writer to Newsweek on the expansion of executive powers under the Bush administration
Post #247,233 by CRConrad 3/8/06 3:09:23 PM Reply	Do we have crack heads, too? /me didn't know that.
Post #247,239 by Silverlock 3/8/06 3:57:31 PM Reply	So you're saying this is an Alka Seltzer moment? I kid, I kid. Congrats. ----------------------------------------- Impeach Bush. Impeach Cheney. Do it now.
Post #247,249 by Nightowl 3/8/06 5:21:58 PM Reply	Wonderful news, Laura!!!!!! "When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life." By Geoffrey F. Abert
Post #247,250 by hnick 3/8/06 5:28:10 PM Reply	Way to go! Good news is too infrequent around here...
Post #247,251 by imqwerky 3/8/06 5:29:38 PM Reply	YeeeeHawwwww! It's about time the good karma started showing its face around here! Sleep peacefully, now, ya hear! Hugs, Amy "It's never too late to be who you might have been." ~ George Eliot
Post #247,263 by tuberculosis 3/8/06 6:15:18 PM 8/21/07 6:17:39 AM Reply	Oh? No more having to deal with crack heads and criminals! I thought you were still trying to date through the internet. :-P "Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 06:17:39 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #247,278 by bionerd 3/8/06 8:48:50 PM Reply	Yes, and it's going just swimmingly (she says with her voice dripping with sarcasm) Havent found any crack heads, but I havent found any keepers, either. Where are all the good men hiding?!? Oh heck, I dont really care right now. I got my job back!!!! I was talking to the boss today and he said we're going to be up the creek if both carriers have a crash on the same day. I said, "Yeah, but what are the chances of that happening?". He said "About the same as four planes being hijacked and crashing on the same day." Oh. What an unpleasant thought. Follow your MOUSE
Post #247,321 by jbrabeck 3/9/06 8:56:32 AM Reply	Mid-air involving both.... Might as well make the worst of it. A good friend will come and bail you out of jail ... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!"
Post #247,350 by bionerd 3/9/06 12:30:40 PM Reply	That's a sure way to get some publicity. I was a 9/11 responder. I dont EVER want to go through something like that again. I still have a mild PTSD reaction on the anniversary date every year. I dont expect that will ever go away. Follow your MOUSE
Post #247,366 by imqwerky 3/9/06 2:25:25 PM Reply	9/11 Was my dad's birthday and the last one he ever celebrated. On top of that, I was on the phone with my friend in G-town waiting to find out whether her husband was dead or not (he was at the Pentagon and he ended up being fine). I know it is not as grisly, but the trauma is all too real. It is definitely a wound that will take time to heal. Hugs, Amy "It's never too late to be who you might have been." ~ George Eliot
Post #247,309 by cforde 3/9/06 3:44:44 AM Reply	how do you spell relief? good for you. I'm sure your kids are pleased too. The world's a better place when mom is happy... :-) Have fun, Carl Forde
Post #247,391 by n3jja 3/9/06 6:31:37 PM Reply	Plane fall down, go BOOM. Yes, I'm a Bastard. Next issue.
Post #247,407 by Ashton 3/9/06 8:46:46 PM Reply	A splendid break from the daily destruction. (Gotcher passport, shots, i-Pod with some Sergei Nakariakov blissful horn solos - for enroute calming, sitter-contract, etc?) While I hope you aren't Needed for such a reason - I also hope you Are; ahhh, life is full of self-cancelling hopes. Anyway - lap it up! Cheers, I.
Post #247,607 by Meerkat 3/11/06 10:01:47 PM Reply	Tops news! Light at the end of the tunnel, and all that. Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.

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