First Day

The first day of work wasn't quite what I hoped it would be.  I am trying to reserve any kind of judgment until a few more days effort but it seemed sort of all over the place today.   According to the woman who hired me, the girl who is going to be training me on what I'm supposed to be doing wasn't there today which was weird.  Why have me come in?  To help pass the time, more than anything else, I was asked to write a solicitation to colleges to recruit nurse practitioners.  She told me that the girl who worked before me couldn't seem to get this letter written an then proceeded to show me her mistakes (which I don't know how I feel about, but whatever).  Needless to say, for the first part of the day I spent my time reading through the brochures and pamphlets trying to piece together some time of letter about the company when I had really no idea myself.  

I'll get feedback on it tomorrow.  As of right now, I can't tell if this is going to feel more like a sales job or if it's going to be more of an HR kind of thing.  I've never been all that into sales or selling products or services.  I mean, this seems like a pretty good deal for nurse practitioners.  In their free time they can go into the homes of medicare patients and give at home evaluations for some decent money.  But then, $75 per hour seems like a big deal to me but I don't really know what nurse practitioners make on a daily basis.  They are even more qualified than regular nurses and are allow to prescribe medications and give physicals like doctors so they may make some decent money without this gig.  Then again, like most of those professions there tend to be a lot of loans that need to be paid back so maybe the extra money does help.  

I also booked a hotel room for one of the NPs which I actually enjoyed a lot.  I love looking up hotels and measuring features against pricing.  Really, I just love traveling.  Unfortunately with the internet, travel agents aren't that valuable anymore.  Anyone can plan a trip today; they don't need me to help them.  That or the travel agents that make money tend to pawn off timeshares along with their travel advice and I could never deal with that.   Again, I don't like selling things.  If people want to do something they'll do it and it's not my job to convince them.   Not that there is anything wrong with sales but it just makes me feel super uncomfortable.  

So again, I'm really hoping that my job isn't to sell them on this position.  I'm hoping that the position sells itself but we'll see.  I need to give it a few more days.