My Mistake

Erin finally got a job several weeks ago after months of searching for a paid internship position in the Dallas area. She is now unemployed yet again. The story of what happened for the two weeks in-between is like a bad dream. In hindsight, an important lesson has been learned: intuition is not to be ignored.

When Erin interviewed for the position she got bad vibes about the owner of this practice, but after searching for months, any paid job that had an available opening looked great. After two weeks of living day by day to figure out whether she did or did not have clients to see, Erin found out that her suspicions about something being not quite right with her boss were confirmed. The practice Erin was working for received a subpoena with the promise of a subsequent investigation by the state board for unethical and illegal behavior. Erin decided the next day to quit while she was ahead: no regular clients yet, no need for anyone to know she had worked at this place for two weeks, no hours accrued toward licensure yet. It is also safe to say that the woman running this practice is a paranoid sociopath, literally.

After such a stressful re-introduction to working in America, Erin is now thinking much more carefully about where she takes an internship position. And for now, she is quite happy trying to get our house back in order because we are still in the process of remodeling and hope to have the house somewhat back to normal for the Christmas season. Plus, we have a preemie nephew who is now living at home with his parents but still needs lots of help. Actually, the help may be more for the benefit of his mommy than for him, but Erin is more than happy to drive down to be with them now that her schedule is flexible again.