I got a new job! A salaried job! A job that will utilize my education and express my interests and passions! I am now the readiness specialist for 3 counties in Oregon, tasked with liaising, teaching and recruiting for American Red Cross disaster services.
It felt so good to put in my resignation at TNF! My last day was Saturday. I began training with the Red Cross on Monday. I LOVE IT. The more I learned about my job the more excited I became to start it! But here are the most interesting parts about it:
my three counties span rural southeastern Oregon. They are the biggest in the state, though perhaps the least populated as well. I was required to relocate to the biggest of the towns here, Klamath Falls, which boasted a whopping 20000 people in the last census. There is a great old A. Red Cross office building a couple blocks from Main St. which will house my office. But I am the only staff person in the building! I arrived in K. Falls today (warmly welcomed with two inches of snow! WHAT!!) and drove past the office. There is a very friendly CLOSED sign on the front porch of a giant white house. I should be getting an office key and a computer by Wednesday. In the meantime, I am searching for a place to comfortably hibernate through winter. Its been an interesting process in a town that has a 15% unemployment rate and san francisco sized hills with snow.
