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You go Rayna!!-Gary
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Rayna Lamb wrote:
> Hey Mag and everyone, just met my job coach..... she's GREAT!!!! So
> nice and friendly, and not at all patronising. She's going to try and
> get me some work experience so I can brush up on my skills and get
> used to being back in the workforce (haven't worked for 5
> years....yikes!), then work towards getting me some parttime work.
> I'm feeling SO good about all this. At first when I considered
> getting back into the workforce, I was very wary about it, several
> years of pushing my self far too hard in my late teens-early twenties,
> and five years of rejection by employers (I had many employers hang up
> on me when I told them about the CP - I'm sure many on this list can
> identify with that...), and being pressured by my parents (my mother
> once suggested I should get a job as a check-out chick!!!), AND doing
> all this with severe undiagnosed depression, had left me with a lot of
> bad memories as far as job hunting went.
>
> But now I feel a lot more confident and relaxed about it.
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> So back to studying for my exam, it's next Thursday, so lurk mode for
> me till then.
>
> Rayna
>
> Actually, Bobby, could you put me on `no mail' for the moment - you guys
> are FAR too distracting (in a good way!), for someone who has as
> little self discipline as I do!
>
> Thanks :-)
>
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