5 years later...

Today is my last day of my job here at Weber State. As I write this post, it almost makes me sad. This is the last thing that has tied me to this school, and now...I'm done. It's been a really good job during school. They have been so awesome with my school hours and last minute meetings I've had for student government and all that jazz. I've never had to find anyone to cover me if I needed a day off. I kinda came and went as I pleased while in the DH program and I worked with seriously some of the best people! I wish I had a picture to post! Sadly, today I forgot my camera.

I've cleaned my desk out/off and I'm getting really to go. It's so crazy that I'm done here. Now I really feel like I'm going out into the real world. It's kinda scary. I feel like I don't know what to do with myself. I guess just buck up and move on. Actually this is what I have planned for June:

1: Working interview

5-8: YW camp

16: Lava-floating down the river

19-24: New Orleans-ADHA

27-30: Laurel Light Camp

Pretty busy I guess. Rob says he's moving in with his mom next Tuesday when I leave. I guess someone needs to take care of my poor husband because I'm abandoning him for a month. I'm actaully tentative on the Laurel Light camp, especially b/c I'm hoping I get a job!

Warning, I do most of my blogging from work, which I'm now done with, so if my posts aren't as frequent (like they're really frequent now) I apologize. I will try to find time in my oh so busy schedule. :)

For now, up and onward to better things!

the interview...

Well, I had my first working interview yesterday. It's a dentist in Brigham City which is AWESOME! (Take that gas companies! No more driving for me!) I really liked his office and I felt really good about it. I cleaned one of the assitants teeth and I think it went pretty well. I didn't really like the fact that they gave me the one who was really jumpy, but I guess I did ok. It was kind of wierd b/c no one was there to make sure I did everything or check my work after I was done. I'm all on my own!
The dentist came in and did an exam, and I was really embarassed b/c I forgot to do an extra/intra oral examination and apparently I missed a spot b/c he picked up the scaler! I was dying! I guess the good thing is is that I felt really comfortable there and I actually told him I forgot to do the extra/intra oral exam and he laughed. I think I still need a cheat sheet or something so I don't loose my head.
SOme of the reasons that I really would love this job is that:
1. I get a whole hour for adults!
2. I get 45 min for kids
3. He is really big on treating perio, although he says only 2% of their patients have active perio.
4. I feel really comfortable there and with his staff and he's big on being a team player.
5. It's in Brigham City
6. He's planning to buil a new office in a yr.
7. He seemed pretty willing to let me adapt the hygiene aspect of the practice to what I feel is needed.
8. They are pretty laid back and try to make it as enjoyable for the pt as possible.
9. It will probably be a full time position in the very near future.
10. He thinks it's very important to be involved in the community and is supportive of my involvement in ADHA.

Okay, so although I mentioned that I had heard a negative comment about him, I just have to go with my gut instinct and say that I really hope I get this job b/c he just seems fantastic! I'm really holding out for this one! Like really holding out!

Anyhow, he said he'd let me know in about a week.

My first working interview

So today I have a working interview w/ a dentist here in my home town! So nice because I'm sick of driving 40 minutes to school/work everyday! So hopefully it works out. I took a resume on Monday and he showed me around the office and I met the staff and felt pretty good/comfortable there. But then last night a friend told me something negative about him. I'm just not sure. I'm beginning to wonder if there's always someone who thinks badly of each dentist, so I guess all I can do is trust my own instincts. Any thoughts on the subject?

Something that I think of as well is what Instructor Allen told us, "Never feel like you have to stay at your first job. Test the waters and if there's something you want that you're not getting, find someone who will give it to you." So I keep thinking about that as well. Oh well, I guess we'll see how today goes and then decide.

So Way DONE!

Here is a picture of some of us on graduation. However, I'm pretty sure Syd, Kelly and Michaelene don't blog, so what good is it to them, they'll never know they made my blog? I'll post more at the end!

Well, today I took my clinical boards. Notice the lack of "mock" before boards. This was the real deal. I assume it went okay. I actaully had a little scare, I will share:

So one of the examiners came to me as I was packing my instruments with a carbon copy sheet of paper with a whole bunch of jibber jabber and a 5 written on it. All I saw was the five. She said,

"Are you candidate FA 128?"

"Yes," was my reply,

and then all of the sudden I thought "NO! I failed! She came to tell me that I need remedial training (is that even what it's called?) and no one else was as bad as I was so they just stopped and came to put me out of the misery of waiting the 2-3 weeks just so that I could find out then that I failed and would need remedial training. But then...

She said, "we just need you to put this in your folder so that we know you were five minutes late to check out." WHEW! I could handle that. Needless to say, it is possible that I could be back on here telling you that's what they should've done. Seriously! Truthfully, I feel okay about it. There were a few spots that I really felt like I had burnished calc and one that I'm pretty sure had a huge chunk still present. Oh well, I was already five minutes over, I had to call it quits! Seriously!

(More pictures)

Ok, now I just wait for the mail.