By bluerasberry on 2008-08-14
I was in DC from Tuesday August fifth through Sunday the tenth. On the sixth and seventh I was in training for my job; NIDA is in DC so they do their Clinical Trials Network (CTN) training there. The training was boring and hardly anything that could not have done by webcast, but I was […]
Posted in animal, art, museum, religion, work | Tagged capitol, church, library, panda, zoo
By bluerasberry on 2008-05-29
I want to make some notes about my last job as a test grader for high school standardized exams. I worked at this mass grading facility for ten days sometime within the last couple of months, and I read essays by kids around 12 years old. I do not know the standards, but the grades […]
Posted in art, education, work | Tagged data, fiction, logistics, pop culture, test, youth
By bluerasberry on 2008-05-07
I do not have a strong work ethic with respect to working for causes for which I am not involved in some decision-making process. I got a new job which starts tomorrow. It is nice for me for several reasons. It is a full-time temporary job. I love temporary work because I get to quit […]
Posted in education, work | Tagged youth
By bluerasberry on 2008-03-31
Never in my life before I was hired as a counselor did I ever expect to work as a counselor, so I can hardly say that I feel a sense of loss. Free and Clear fired me despite their dire need for employees. I feel like everyone there loved me and certainly everyone followed my […]
Posted in drug, health, work | Tagged counseling, smoking, test, tobacco
By bluerasberry on 2008-03-04
On Monday February 18 I started my first full-time job at Free and Clear as a tobacco-cessation counselor. Their business is to make and take phone calls for people who contacted us about stopping smoking. They have an awesome business model because they do not have to advertise to the public, only to the government […]
Posted in health, work | Tagged counseling, insurance, smoking, tobacco
By bluerasberry on 2008-02-12
Nandan and I talk about Sanjeevani Booti continuously. This is the name for the HIV NGO which we are founding. The website is up. Nandan did not know what AIDS was before, and now he knows the basics. He has probed the community for similar organizations and we know what exists. He has talked with […]
Posted in education, HIV, India, legal, non-profit, research, rights, Seattle, work | Tagged AIDS, license, megacorp, Mehdiganj, NGO, PSA, Sanjeevani Booti, survey, tea, tourism, Varanasi
By bluerasberry on 2007-10-09
I am doing work for checks about twenty-five hours a week now. I was working at two phone-research places but I quit the non-medical one last week. Last week and whenever I want to go back I can play-test video games at this place called Volt for just over minimum wage. The pay is lousy […]
Posted in art, research, work | Tagged disability, theatre, video game
By bluerasberry on 2007-09-18
I got two jobs last weekend. Yesterday, Monday, I started one of them. It was with a company that does interviews over the phone, and they are in Seattle. Their call center has about thirty phones and they also do focus groups. My first assignment is to do a survey about pesticide use in Oregon. […]
Posted in work | Tagged data, survey
By bluerasberry on 2007-05-06
My routine is to study alone for about three hours a day and to have lesson with M.N. Upadhyay for about two hours a day. I have a vocabulary which seems large to me and I feel like I can make simple statements about most topic which come to conversation. I can certain tell people […]
Posted in work | Tagged Hindi, logistics