It’s been a busy past several days. Yesterday I got home around 2 and was back at the boys’ track meet around 6PM. Thankfully it was not very far, only about ten minutes away. I wasn’t going to stay the whole time but the hours passed by.

There’s been upheaval at Hope over the past week or so. The clinical supervisor, two counselors, and one of the front desk girls all put in their notices to leave. This is separate from the three other counselors who are going on consecutive 12-week maternity leaves starting in April, June, then August. They just hired a new counselor who started this week but I haven’t met. My day today went well and was mostly individuals. I have a new string of couples and need to learn their new names.

They’ve incentivized us taking new intakes by offering $30 for every intake over the new three months. They are also offering current staff the opportunity to pick up more days and hours if we want them. I don’t think I will want to. The three days is going to be a max for me. I know I’m still tired from my weekend and trip so everything is sounding more tiring than it will normally be.

The biggest downfall here is the money. Because you are only paid per session, and because it isn’t the type of work where you could legitimately work 40 hours a week to get paid for that, it is not an income that would allow an adult to support themselves. As a supplemental income it works. That was one of the things that seemed crazy to me about all this. You could have a masters degree and still not be able to support yourself one one income. The charity type work seems often that way.

I hope this isn’t sounding unhappy. It was a very good weekend and I had a nice visit. Josh and the boys welcomed me home and it was good to be back at an Athens track meet and in my personal bed. If I’m upset about something I do not know what it would be. I really am just exhausted but knew that would happen when I did so. I do know but sometimes you just have to do the thing.