{"id":6073,"date":"2011-01-06T19:33:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T01:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=6073"},"modified":"2011-01-06T19:33:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T01:33:49","slug":"thankful-thursday-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2011\/20110106-6073.htm","title":{"rendered":"Thankful Thursday: Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five years ago, when I was halfway through my undergraduate education in dietetics, I never would have guessed that I’d be working in long-term care.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t that I didn’t like the idea. I just intended to go a different direction. Should I not end up married before the time came to get a first professional job, I’d try to find something in community nutrition, education in the community. <\/p>\n

And that is<\/b> what I tried for–but jobs in the community are few and far between (and not always that greatly funded.)<\/p>\n

So instead of a community position, I found myself in Columbus, Nebraska as a long-term care dietitian. And I love it.<\/p>\n

\"Thankful<\/a><\/p>\n

Today I’m thankful…<\/b><\/p>\n

…for a good first day<\/b> at the two facilities I’m now consulting for (even if the previous dietitian couldn’t be there to orient me to the facilities)<\/p>\n

…for a just the right length to-do list<\/b>. Now that I’m caught up from my conference and am full-time, I have enough work to keep me busy but not so much that I’m scrambling to keep afloat.<\/p>\n

…for affirmation from a coworker<\/b> who thinks I’m doing a good job (Thanks, Jen!)<\/p>\n

…for a visit from my consultant RD<\/b> who was able to catch something I was doing inadequately so I could correct it (before it became an issue)<\/p>\n

…for conversations<\/b> with coworkers before weights meetings<\/p>\n

…for dark chocolate<\/b> from my Secret Santa in our post-Christmas exchange<\/p>\n

Above all, I’m thankful that God, in His infinite wisdom, has chosen to place me as the in-house dietitian in one long term care facility and as consultant dietitian to two others. It isn’t what I would have chosen for myself, but apparently God’s better at choosing than I am!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Five years ago, when I was halfway through my undergraduate education in dietetics, I never would have guessed that I’d be working in long-term care. It wasn’t that I didn’t like the idea. I just intended to go a different direction. Should I not end up married before the time came to get a first … Read more Thankful Thursday: Work<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[42,31],"tags":[710,1234],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}