Pinball wizard...
May. 31st, 2011 12:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
llcoolvadHad a pretty good weekend. Took Saturday off as my makeup holiday. Spent the day shopping. Clothes shopping, shoe shopping, grocery shopping, etc. Didn't find much, but at least I looked around.
Sunday I headed out to western Mass to see Suzanne and take her out to lunch for her birthday. Had a good time, saw the kids and the pets, hung out with Suzanne for a while. Got home before too late, spent the night mostly napping and reading.
Today was date day with Brian, and it was my turn to choose our activity. He'd recently found an arcade not too far away that opened in January and has pinball and lots of it, so I chose that, and we headed north. I love pinball, it's my favorite arcade-type activity. This place is awesome! Super friendly people work there, it's nice and clean, games are really well maintained (and hey, practically everything in the room is 25-30 years old, so that's impressive), clean bathrooms, funky choices in the vending machines. Fun! I had so despaired of finding good pinball anywhere, and now there's this place! Nice.
Tomorrow I am set to have a super busy day. Training a consultant remotely for an hour, then training the new Design person for the remainder of the day (and the week). He didn't start last week because he had gotten another gig through the temp company we use for contractors, so since we didn't offer him the job til late on Monday, we decided to let him have the other job for that week and start him tomorrow.
Even though I like being the department trainer, I always have a lot of pre-training dread. I have to be perky and smart and together for a whole week! It's rather exhausting. Filter everything I say, do everything properly, be nice. Ugh. It'll be fine, I know, but it's still not my favorite thing.
I've been looking at maybe taking a certificate program in Instructional Design — there's what looks like a decent program at UMass/Boston, and it's not so much money for what might be a new, better direction for me. Not training, but developing training. I think I'd be good at that. Since I already have a master's degree, I figure that maybe I don't actually need the full Master's in ID; I have a lot of experience already in training and teaching, and maybe if I combine my experience with a certificate (which would give me some education theory as well as introduction to the field) I might be able to get more interesting jobs. Anyway, I've been thinking about it. I'd rather not take on more expense/debt, but I learn best in a classroom setting, and I'd need some credentials.
Yawn. I'd best get some sleep.
Sunday I headed out to western Mass to see Suzanne and take her out to lunch for her birthday. Had a good time, saw the kids and the pets, hung out with Suzanne for a while. Got home before too late, spent the night mostly napping and reading.
Today was date day with Brian, and it was my turn to choose our activity. He'd recently found an arcade not too far away that opened in January and has pinball and lots of it, so I chose that, and we headed north. I love pinball, it's my favorite arcade-type activity. This place is awesome! Super friendly people work there, it's nice and clean, games are really well maintained (and hey, practically everything in the room is 25-30 years old, so that's impressive), clean bathrooms, funky choices in the vending machines. Fun! I had so despaired of finding good pinball anywhere, and now there's this place! Nice.
Tomorrow I am set to have a super busy day. Training a consultant remotely for an hour, then training the new Design person for the remainder of the day (and the week). He didn't start last week because he had gotten another gig through the temp company we use for contractors, so since we didn't offer him the job til late on Monday, we decided to let him have the other job for that week and start him tomorrow.
Even though I like being the department trainer, I always have a lot of pre-training dread. I have to be perky and smart and together for a whole week! It's rather exhausting. Filter everything I say, do everything properly, be nice. Ugh. It'll be fine, I know, but it's still not my favorite thing.
I've been looking at maybe taking a certificate program in Instructional Design — there's what looks like a decent program at UMass/Boston, and it's not so much money for what might be a new, better direction for me. Not training, but developing training. I think I'd be good at that. Since I already have a master's degree, I figure that maybe I don't actually need the full Master's in ID; I have a lot of experience already in training and teaching, and maybe if I combine my experience with a certificate (which would give me some education theory as well as introduction to the field) I might be able to get more interesting jobs. Anyway, I've been thinking about it. I'd rather not take on more expense/debt, but I learn best in a classroom setting, and I'd need some credentials.
Yawn. I'd best get some sleep.
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Date: 2011-05-31 07:37 pm (UTC)I would talk to a career counselor to see if the certificate would be enough. You don't want to take the time if a different course of instruction would serve you better.