New Year, new job

[Jonk67]

I hadn't posted in a while and wanted to do a quick update. Well after following Tarafied Craigs thread on his job offer I ended up changing jobs in mid Dec. Left a user support position on the patient portal team at Vanderbilt after a year, had held my previous job for 5yrs. until being laid off after Obamacare pushed the owner to sell the co. to a larger rival due to increase in regulations and decrease in reimbursement (hire more people to file more paperwork for less payment, what a winning idea for businesses!).

I accepted a Director of Health Information position with a midsized rural hospital company. My commute doubled from 20mi. one way in traffic to 40mi. one way with cc on, still takes 50 min.-hour but I don't have to watch bumpers and I picked up a used Miata as a fun commuter. I have been at a standstill on my '67 due to funds so the new position should get me cranked up again. I need a driveshaft, full exh. and little things to get me to my first start.

We had our dept. Xmas lunch at my new position, there were 24 women and ME, I am also the pres.-elect for our local prof. org., our last meeting had 46 women attendees and ME. We had Dirty Santa (WE) gifts and I gave a Michael Buble' CD, thought that was pretty cruel but they liked it? :roll
Please add sarcasm emoticon here.

The hospital system has 55 hospitals across the country currently and I may be going to Somerset KY (home of Somernites cruise in) next week to see their setup as we are about to go live with scanning all of our records to an electronic med. record (EMR) and they have the hospital in Craig's hometown too. Hopefully I'll get to travel some as the EMR system goes throughout all of our hospitals (we are #3/55 to go live) and help with some implementations as I like to travel. Hopefully I'll get to meet some more SFr's that way.

I have high hopes that I will finally get my '67 back on the road after 3yrs. and like most of America I 'hope' there is 'change' in 2012 (hey I get it now!)
Jon

 

[turq66]

Congratulations, Mr. Director of Health Information!
Changing jobs can be scary, but it looks like you've made a wise decision.

 

[Anonymous]

COngrads on your new job. What Hospital chain is it?

 

[Flysure1]

Good luck on the new job--also I pray for you if all the women "cycle" on the same week---I would probably call in sick that week!

 

[Anonymous]

You have a point. Good time to be "out of town" on meetings. :hide

 

[RustyRed]

Congrats!

I've kicked around moving jobs from time to time but my commute is just too nice where I am at so I have stayed so far. Been here nine years almost to the day.

Good luck dealing with all those women, I'll pray for you. I work with a bunch of old women and some days I just want to jump out the window....the terms lazy, unmotivated, pass the buck and constantly bickering come to mind for some mysterious reason.

Also don't forget, when it's work related you can look but don't touch....good way to get fired and the company sued.

 

[Fst Blk]

I'm just 20 minutes from Somerset. Great to hear you like the new women position :roll

Bill

 

[tarafied1]

Good News Jon, thanks for sharing. I hope it all works out for the best. I am anxious to hear that engine fire!
While I didn't take the new job I was offered they still expect me to do the job :wtf and my current job. I will be spending a lot of my summer in Kennesaw when they start up and some time in Aurora this spring taking everything apart.
Anyway, congratulations! Also I mean no disrespect to women in general but when there are a bunch together they can be very difficult to work with (based on my experience) so good luck with that!

 

[RustyRed]

While I didn't take the new job I was offered they still expect me to do the job :wtf and my current job.

It wouldn't matter either way....last year I did take a promotion to director of tax when they offered it here. A guy that had been here for years finally retired...in a small shop death or retirement of someone else is the only way you move up. Now I am still doing my old job plus my "new job", LOL!

I have to wonder some days if I shouldn't have moved to a place very similar to ours that I considered applying at for a similar director position. The commute would have sucked but the pay would have been considerably better.

 

[gwstang]

congrats on the new job. I feel for ya on the commute. I was driving about 50 miles each way for 20 years and finally transferred to a facility that is only 3 miles down the road from me! Sure makes my life a lot easier.

 

[Jonk67]

COngrads on your new job. What Hospital chain is it?

LifePoint Hospital Co., corp. office in Nashville also which would be a closer commute if I ever end up there...

Good luck on the new job--also I pray for you if all the women "cycle" on the same week---I would probably call in sick that week!

Most of these ladies have had their cycle license revoked by now...

I'm just 20 minutes from Somerset. Great to hear you like the new women position :roll
Bill

I'll give you a PM if I do come up if you want to meet somewhere half way for a beverage and some BS.

Thanks for the warm feelings, I got lucky this time and so far they are all very professional and hard workers, they are a great crew. There are 16 on my floor and the rest work from home, another 6 may go home in the next few months. In this field I am always the minority, at our conventions it's ~10% men and only have of us are still men....Told the head of security tonight that if he finds my body in the paper shredder it wasn't an accident :no

The commute doesn't bother me at all and is outweighed by the position/pay, I couldn't make any vertical moves in my previous position even though that was what was presented to me in the interviews a year ago.
Jon