#25

Title: Rover for zone 3

Hours: Varied - Depends on your DPSS location.

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ACES

Hours: Part-Time to Full-Time

Applied: 11/4/2022

Service Year: 2022

Duties: Child development, particularly children with autism.

Risk: Going to the homes of children may include various risks.

Turnover Rate: TBA

Relatives with Company: None

Pay: $20 per hour, $15.97 during 2 week training 0900-1730 Mon-Fri. Note, they do provide an additional $1-3 dollars per hour if you do not change your availability schedule. I am now $22 per hour with the incentive. If I happen to change my availability, they will take that incentive away. Your pay will not go lower than the agreed upon amount, for me it was $20 to start. $20 rate + $2 shift retention bonus = $22 per hour currently.

Taxes: W-2

Benefits: TBD

Qualifications: High School Diploma, Some type of previous childcare experience

Bills: Rent, no more car payment but have 96 Civic project car now, car insurance, internet, cellphone, Car gas, Utilities electric only, Krav Maga (martial arts), Foothill gym (weights).

Reason for Separation: N/A

Description: 

Before the job started

Started by applying on 11/4/2022 and was reached out to do phone interview on 11/7/2022. After phone interview, 2nd interview took place over a video call and than offered the job on 11/8/2022. After the call I was sent a job offer via email and signed it same day. My availability for clients is Monday 1300-2000 and Saturday 0900-1600.

New hire process so far is 2 video calls for onboarding and 1 H.R. Department form filled out on their website (Acesaba.com).

The onboarding process has you get familiar with their paycom website where all of your career needs are located with the company. You will find a new hire checklist and documents that need to be either signed or submitted. (For example you sign your Offer letter of employment and you send in your physical exam once completed)

They require the following New-Hire checklist:

1. physical exam (CVS One Minute Clinic, under "General physical" bring form provided by ACES) (Reimbursement up to $90)

2. vaccination history (MMR up to $180 / VZV Reimbursement up to $180 / Chicken Pox) (covid vaccine exemption)

3. Updated TB test (CVS One Minute Clinic) (Reimbursement up to $100) (good for 1-4 years if already done)

4. Live Scan/Background (need to schedule locally) (Reimbursement up to $85) (Print 3 copies to fill out)

5. BLS CPR card (Reimbursement up to $15 online class only) (Online + Hands On $19.50+$65-85)

6. Unofficial school transcripts (have, need to take pictures of the documents and upload)

7. Go over and sign their own documents on Paycom website.

11/12 - Planning Day
Since I will be picking up a new project car in Fresno next week, the 14th. I will schedule all of the CVS one minute clinics there. I will schedule the Live Scan on Monday, before I return my rental car. I will also need to schedule a BLS CPR class in Fresno. I am currently searching my personal documents for the MMR records. Found the Immunizations in my records. First visit to CVS one minute clinic yesterday 11/11/2022 and they had to turn me away because I told them of my enrollment in Medi-Cal. They are not allowed to take out-of-pocket from Medi-Cal patients and will not accept that insurance type. In other words this service does not want to service Medi-Cal patients whatsoever. Next visit I will pay out of pocket and not mention that I have Medi-Cal, win.

11/14 - Planned Day
This will be a fun day. The week before my first training day. I have scheduled to pickup my job supplies at 0900, fill up the gas tank of my rental at costco next door and return the car at enterprise. My bus to Bakersfield leaves from Pasadena at 1120, so I have to return the car by then and get to Pasadena. Amtrak has a bus go to Bakersfield, where I will transfer to an actual train. I can't remember how long its been since I was on a train. Hence, why I think this day will be so fun. I get to ride on an Amtrak train to Fresno from there. Fresno arrival is around 1630, so I scheduled a TB test with CVS one minute clinic at 1850 (their last appointment for the day) just to be safe. This way I can start the 1-2 day waiting period for the TB skin test and I can return to follow up on results, as well as do a general physical exam. That will take care of 4 of the 7 items on this list. I have scheduled all 3 tests to be done in Fresno to complete my medical portions on the checklist. Once I get the new project car up and running, we will get it smogged and I will put it in my name and transfer insurance. I will be able to submit Car insurance then. Once I get all the medical tests done on Wednesday, I can submit those. Once I get the CLS CPR renewal, I can submit that and I will be complete. Pre-Check-in is complete for all 3 visits to CVS one minute clinic in Fresno.

I have to schedule a background check/live scan somewhere next. https://oag.ca.gov/fingerprints/locations - Live scan location search tool.

Okay I've scheduled a Live scan in Pasadena tomorrow, Sunday. The guy on the phone said to print out 3 copies to fill out as a note to others. Even though this is all going to be submitted online, I will still follow his advice.

11/13 - I went to a trail running event at Brand Park with Anytime Runners/Hikers and had a blast. Afterwards I went home to clean up and recharge. around 1pm I went to "One stop registration services" in Pasadena to get a live scan completed. He came into the shop just for me, as I saw him leave right after. Great service!

Lastly, I will need to schedule a BLS CPR program in Fresno.

11/14 - Is here and I went to bed early. I woke up at around 0230 and my bro Chris was working on the car he's selling to me. I then started working on the 40 items in the Paycom new employee checklist. Basically just reading all the documents and signing or uploading your own documents as requested. This is a common procedure upon joining a new company for employment.

Training

11/21 - Training Begins, Week 1-3, 0900-1730, Monday to Friday

Video calls on Zoom, module sessions on an IPad they provide; is what you will be doing for the next 2 weeks. It may carry over to the 3rd week because of Thanksgiving holiday, which it did. I am now complete with my training 3 weeks later. Each module is an online slide show with quiz questions throughout. You have a Pre-Test and Post-Test to see how much you already knew and then learned. I found that interesting to see my progress, since its entirely new to me. I had a lot of 20% grades on Pre-Tests and to pass a Post-Test, you need 90% or more. Big jump in learned information there. You have essentially endless tries, although they limit you to 3. If you fail 3 times, you are forced to call the ACES front desk service or your support team to reset your attempts. They have some kind of admin privileges; they can pass you through modules if its glitched as incomplete and can reset your test attempts.

Note** It is not required to be RBT certified in California, however I decided to get that certification anyway.

Upon completion of your online modules or classes, you will then take a 3-part module final. This took me 4 hours to complete.

After passing your finals, you may begin 1000-1300 Zoom meetings, where you get a live trainer session for the rest of week 3. You may or may not have a 2nd Zoom meeting after lunch from 1330-1730. If you do not have a 2nd zoom meeting that day, there are plenty other modules to complete still. They just have you do the 11 main ones about the job title first. The rest of the modules were about company policy and miscellaneous things like HIPPA and sexual harassment training. It was very similar to all the online modules of joining hospital employment. Now after you have done all your zoom meeting trainings and finished the modules entirely, you may begin an assessment.

Before you can start working, you must pass an assessment over Zoom video and go through a live role play session. You are being coached and evaluated on your knowledge of what you learned over the 3 weeks. I had learned a lot, but not really retaining any of the terminology. It was foreign material for me, so I know most of my learning of terminology will come as I am exposed more and use it. Based on my understanding of note taking and performing tasks with a client, I was able to pass. Upon completion of your assessment, you now qualify to start the process of RBT certification.

RBT certification takes place on BACB.com

1. You will need to create an account to get your BACB ID#.

2. You will need to turn your highest diploma into an accepted file type for uploading. I turned mine into a PDF on google docs.

3. You will need to download your 40-hour certificate and assessment certificate from Paycom.

4. Apply to part 1 of RBT certification application using steps 1-3 above as requested.

5. Wait for a supervisor to confirm your application, then you will be prompted to begin part 2 of the application to then submit. (I am here at the start of week 4)

On the Job

I started with 5 clients or kids a week. All about 3-5 years old, some can speak, some are non-vocal. You are given a tablet to login for your timestamps and parent/guardian signature. You also take pre-determined notes in your client's chart.

1. Upon arriving to the clients home, you begin your chart clock. This counts upwards like a stopwatch, determining how long your session is. Stop when you leave clients home.

2. Go over your client's chart before or during session and make sure you are getting targeted notes completed.

3. Basically, all you do is play with the kids and act like a supporting role model, building rapport and taking notes on your tablet throughout session.

4. You have to come up with activity ideas using your own belongings or belongings on the premises. Upon doing activities, you are supposed to help the kids learn new life skills and encourage vocalizing if they are non-verbal. So far activies for me have included Legos, books, other toys the client has access to, video games like Mario Kart for one kid, Animals and dinosaur toys etc...

5. Other activities may help the kid learn to tell others what they want, such as pointing at objects or using sign language.

6. Behavior is also a problem for kids in general and especially in those who have trouble communicating, so helping them relax and managing their behaviors is important.

7. Often times you can help transition activities with showing the kid a timer counting down, having them activate it and turn off helps a lot in avoiding tantrums. The act of transitioning activities itself also helps them in being more flexible in life. Kids especially with autism, tend to stick with the same activity, so helping them do multiple activities is very beneficial to their quality of life with others.

8. Once you have about 10 minutes left, collect a parent/guardian signature and you also have to sign for the timestamp of session.

9. Before you leave, its customary to share a moment with the parents/guardians about the day and any concerns. Then you stop your clock and save the note charting.

10. You are now good to go home at this point. 

They have been scheduling clients up to 5 hours at a time, 3 hours apart. No more than 8 hours a day. So far, I have only had 5 hours a day and 20 hours a week. Note that I only gave them my availability between the hours of 1pm to 8pm. 

CA BSIS Guard Card, CA Exposed Firearms Permit by Monrovia Community Adult School. Website
Training provided by Burrill "BJ" Johnson of Pointblank Training Inc. Website
-I would categorize this as a "Public Trade School" program.

Cost of program:
Guard Card
$1,995 - Pass/Fail Written Exam

BSIS Exposed Firearm Permit (Armed Security Guard)
$3,995 - (Pass/Fail Written Exam + Shooting Qualifier + Personality Test)

Total $5,990. FREE, sponsored by Monrovia Adult School program with the state. I do not have to pay anything back.

Financial Aid Eligibility (Full sponsorship)
If unemployed, you may qualify for a full sponsorship grant provided by nocosttraining.org and Monrovia Adult School files for you. There is one requirement for the grant, you are REQUIRED to gain work in the field of certification. This grant may be utilized once per 2 years by adults who are currently not employed.

Psychological assessment (Once you have your Guard Card Number, you may call by Phone or handle this Online)
You will be given the task to take this on your own, after completion of and passing all exams above.
Register an account at PSI for your "BSIS Firearms Assessment" test. 90 Minutes as of 10/27/2022
Home> Register for a test> Government/State Licensing Agencies> California> CA Bureau of Security Investigative Services (Firearms Assessment)
Once done filling out the registration, it will ask for payment of $65.
After payment is completed, you will then be eligible for scheduling your assessment. (Each location will have differing availability. I chose farther away due to sooner availability.)
Home> Schedule for a test> Tasks Due, click "Schedule for a test"> Find location nearest you.

Total Out of Pocket for program: $65. However, the school will reimburse you for this once you send them a receipt.

Hours: 0900 - 1530
40 Hour Classroom with Guard card exam.
22 Hour Firearms training with BSIS written + Hands on Exams - BSIS Requirements HERE
Baton and pepper spray 8 hours or 1 day.
Total is 1 week and 3 days or 70 Hours.

Applied: 10/4/2022

Class Date: 10/10/2022 - 10/19/2022

Duties once you start work.. Prevention of loss of property, harm to people or property. Decide whether to observe and report or take action and step in. Exposed firearms permit upkeep, Baton and pepper spray permit. You have the same rights as given to you by your client, whose property you are protecting. This is a job with high exposure to violence.

Risks: Pepper Spray to the eyes and face (Optional), Handcuff technique exposure, Shooting at a firing range, no physical fitness assessments throughout the program :( 

Turnover Rate: N/A

Relatives with Company: None.

Pay: N/A

Taxes: N/A

Benefits: N/A

Qualifications: If utilizing the unemployment grant, you must currently not be working and ability to pass a school skills test, read and write in English.

Dates of Approval:

10/19/2022 - Pepper Spray Card
10/26/2022 - Guard Card/Baton Certificate (Had to wait for the Guard card to clear before baton certification)
10/19/2022 - Awaiting BSIS Exposed Firearms Permit and baton permit after school completion.
10/26/2022 - Instructor sent Baton certification by mail after seeing my Guard Card cleared.
10/31/2022 - Self scheduled with PSI to take the final exam or Personality Test to complete BSIS Exposed firearms permit. Passed it.
Instructor completed my BSIS exposed firearms permit application and sent it in.
Awaiting approval of BSIS exposed firearms permit.

Renewal Expectancy: California terms:
Guard Card: Renewal fee of $55 every 2 years.
BSIS Exposed Firearm Permit: Twice a year to qualify with a shooting instructor $40-100 per qualification. BSIS renewal fee $118 every 2 years.
Baton Permit: No expiration date, they do however recommend refresher courses. This means no fee or submissions to renew.
OC Pepperspray Card: No expiration date, means no fee or submissions to renew.
Total renewal fees:
x1 $55(Guard card) +
x4 $40-100(Shooting Qualifying) +
x1 $118(Exposed Firearms Permit)
=  $253 - $373 Every 2 years for expected renewal fees to upkeep certifications. Not 

Bills: N/A

Equipment investment list:
Personal Responsibility - Quality Body Armor vest, Level3 pistol holster, x2 Handcuffs with holster, baton, OC Pepper spray, Duty belt.

Uniform may or may not be provided by employer. Usually is for this line of work.

I will list the pricing for items below.
Body Armor Vest: $
Level3 Pistol Holster: $
Handcuffs with holster: $
Baton: $
OC Pepper Spray: $
Duty Belt: $
Firearm: $617.09 w/tax @TurnersOutdoorsman (Went on sale for $449.86 before taxes recently 10/2022, I paid full price in 2021)
Ammunition: $12-16 before tax per box(50 count) or $75-350 per ammo can(250, 500, 1000 count). You want to only buy during sales to save on bulk buys. I would only buy ammo from LAXammo because they are like the Costco of ammunition. It is also recommended to only use hollow point rounds at home or on the job/person. Full metal jacket is recommended for target shooting.

Total Investment = $

Description:

**Under Construction**

Reason for Separation: N/A

Before I begin, this process is typically just a few months. Due to covid and unfortunate circumstances, my experience was delayed considerably. You may have a much quicker processing time and better overall experience.

I tried to get certified late 2021 and early 2022, however the covid policy to get a covid test "if non-vaccinated" was to be within 48 hours of the class. This held me back. The policy stated that you needed to be vaccinated or have a negative test result within 48 hours of the class date. The first time I went to a class late 2021, I found out about this policy and was denied entrance. The second class scheduled about 2 months later, my covid test results were not resulted by the class date and I had to cancel. On the third attempt of taking the class mid 2022, home-kits were available for covid testing and I did that before going. Once I arrived to the third class attempt, covid policy had disappeared and was no longer enforced. My negative results were no longer needed, nor being vaccinated. I was able to take the first all-day class. You are lectured under strict supervision and use of projector and booklets to study throughout the day. At the end of the day, you take your state exam. Yeah, one day to study and take the exam right after class.

If you are new to documents that require notarization, I would suggest to do some research on them first. I failed the first state exam because it was totally foreign material for me. Although, I only failed by 1 point.. a passing exam score is 70/100. The exam takes roughly 45 minutes to complete and you are being timed. You must know the Public Notary laws, Document types and use of laws per situations. The class is a brief over-view, they do not go in-depth on scenario's and types of documents you will notarize. You get a glimpse of some documents, but no real exposure if this is new to you. For someone who works with banking and property or real-estate, these documents are probably all familiar to you already. I had to schedule another class and exam, another month later to bring another money order and I passed the second exam 70/100 haha.

After passing the exam, you have to wait for the state to do your background check and give you a Public Notary commission. Your responsible to find a bond within 30 days of being commissioned and submit it to your local County Registrar. After 3 months, now late 2022 I was finally commissioned. I got letters from a lot of bonding companies, but already paid for a bond in my NNA package. I waited and never received my bond, even though they had sent me previous mail before. I called a week before my 30 days and even after the 30 day mark, never received my bond. Something shady was going on there for sure, non the less I just requested a refund. It was about $475, they agreed to refund me. In order to pursue a Public Notary now, NNA told me I would need to do another live scan and some other process again. I am not sure what I'd have to do now, that I am no longer associated with them. I have decided to just move onto another field.

Amazon Delivery with Ponce Ground Inc

Hours: Full-Time 40 hours (30min Lunch)

(4x10, was nice) 1000-1830 or 1030-1800

Service Year: Early 2022 (3 months on and off)

Duties: Drive to Van Yard, Ignore most of the vehicle inspection as most people did, Drive to pick up packages from Amazon warehouse and drive to an assigned area to deliver along a route with the full size cargo van. The objective is to empty your van before end of shift, you get paid a full shift even if you finish early. Ponce Ground Inc was the only company doing this and paid the most out of all the other Los Angeles area companies. (Other companies only paid you for the time you worked, finish early then you get paid less hours)

Risk: Speed limit being monitored, Seatbelt being monitored, Driver being monitored and with both hands on steering wheel, Car accidents may occur, Packages delivered but customer reported no delivery falls on your record, must report any damages to vehicle, must empty van of packages before shift ends to avoid overtime, If all packages are not delivered by end of shift a write-up occurs.

Turnover Rate: Very High (Physically demanding, fun for active people. Reward is very little though and this was the highest paying delivery company I found)

Applied: Sent an email with resume and cover letter. Received a text for an in-person interview the next day. No covid vaccine is required, great family owned American company!

Relatives with Company: None.

Pay: $18.50 per hour

Taxes: W-2

Benefits: No benefits until after probationary period. Benefits package is weak, I was contemplating whether to use theirs or get my own if staying with company. The real reason you work for this company is to bust out a empty van and go home early, with a full days pay.

Qualifications: High School Diploma, Clean Driving Record, Drug screen testing.

Bills: This was enough, if working 40 hours a week to pay rent for my studio and all the bills.

Description:

"Under Construction"

Reason for Separation: I was tired of the commute to Ontario mainly. There was a commute there and then my job was driving all day.. so that was too much driving haha. I encountered a van with bad E-break and they specifically knew it already, so they wouldn't let that van go to inclined routes. This meant they would blind eye things. They would do the same thing for starting shift vehicle inspections. Granted, this was probably the best Amazon delivery company to work for and I had a lot of fun + Exercise. I didn't want to deal with all the blind eyes going on and the commute. They did try their best to take care of their drivers. I bought 5 Costco pizzas for the drivers, when I picked up my final check.

#19 - 2nd Phlebotomist Job, Healthcare (Huntington Hospital)

Huntington Hospital Pasadena - Float Phlebotomist (5 Locations Total)

Hours: Full-Time 40 hours (30 Min Lunch)

(5x8 max) Clinical 0800-1700 (4 Locations)

(5x8-16 max) Hospital split into 3 shifts 0400-1230(AM), 1230-2100(PM), 2100-0400(GY).
Covering each department in the 619-bed hospital, including E.R.

Service Year: Late 2018 - Late 2021

Duties: Draw blood from hand to bicep only. Both have a laboratory setting where you receive specimens, I did that too. (Hospital / Clinical).

Hospital Only, Respond to Coding Patients and Trauma's in the E.R.
(Coding is a patient in need of immediate medical attention. Trauma is a patient being dropped off by ambulance)

Clinical Only, Collect Urine samples, Stool Sample kits, Swab kits, front desk registering, phones. After Covid happened, they started making it appointment only and kept a daily log.

Risk: Exposure to infected persons bodily fluids, blood. HIPPA violations. Hospital policy.

An example would be poking yourself with a needle of an HIV infected individual. You have no extra pay for this risk. Although highly unlikely, an infected individual may also take the needle and stab you with it. In nearly 5 years of working, the biggest thing I've seen is a patient take the needle out and just let the needle fall to the ground. In that situation you will then have blood gushing out of the puncture wound from the insertion. If you are also not careful with the needle, you could yourself move the needle out of the mark. That blood could splash onto you in either situation, even if not poked by the needle being used. You also have patients who will jerk their arm really fast as you go to put the needle in, which can result in harming the patient or yourself. Again, just be careful as it is not common. You should expect these things and prepare yourself for them, even though most people will be compliant and respectful. After experiencing these types of things, you develop a sense on when you may need a coworker to help hold a patients arm and that is 100% allowed. Politically, you may not photo/video record without the patients consent and you may not take photos of the patients information. They call that a violation of HIPPA and is a employment termination offense. If in a hospital setting, you also may not work out of your scope of practice.

Turnover Rate: Very High (most of the staff were new employee's by the time I left)

Applied: Online (Brought in for 2, in-person interviews before hire. Background check.)

Patient Age Range: All ages. New Born, Child, Teen, Young Adult, Adult, Geriatric.

Condition of Patients:

Clinical side is mostly healthy as they walk-in and out. Besides people in wheel-chairs, mostly geriatric and special needs.

Hospital side, everyone is entering the hospital "sick".. so you have many various conditions to work with. The ones that affect blood drawing is Trypanophobia (Scared of needles), dehydration, burn victims or major scarring and Obesity (varies).

Relatives with Company: None.

Pay: $18.50 +$2.00 Hospital Differential. (Clinical side has no differential). Do not expect raises for this job, it is better to look for another hospital and ask for a hire salary. All the hospital staff around other departments say the same thing. For Los Angeles, you want to work at UCLA, Kaiser, USC or Cedars-Sinai. Huntington Hospital Executives fight to keep wages low, even though they are non-profit and pay no taxes. The new CEO Lori Morgan also created a program in the Philanthropy Department that sends mail to employees homes asking for donations. Note that your pay cannot increase anymore once you reach $30 an hour here. For those who did lifetime here, they no longer receive a raise at all. Stay away.

Taxes: W-2

Benefits: Free healthcare to a degree, low cost dental and vision. Discount on cafeteria, as well as quite a lot of good things were removed with new appointed CEO Lori Morgan.

Qualifications: Experienced Phlebotomist, CPR card, CA State Certified, High School Diploma. (Still holding NHA certification, although not required.) 

Up-to-date vaccinations or declinations. Note you cannot deny the Covid-19 Vaccination now.

Bills Funded by this Job: Rent, Utilities, Internet, Car Payment, Food and water, car fuel, Eating out, Fun Activities.

Description:

**Under Construction**

Reason for Separation: Denying the original Covid-19 vaccination early on, come September 2021 it became a requirement. Again, after denying the Covid-19 "Vaccine" in September, I was told to not come to work the next day and terminated a few days later. This occurred even though transmission of Covid-19 was low to non-existent, even with the lack of PPE all over the nation. Also note that Covid-19 is the only vaccine that required a code team(Emergency Team) to standby while being injected with it. Studies now have also shown it to be more deadly or life altering than if you actually had Covid-19, this article has been censored though. There was also a video looking at the vaccine fluid under a microscope on YouTube, the video was censored. You can ask anyone to show you proof that the Covid-19 vaccine is safe and they will all have zero validity, as it was a rushed product. A rushed product has no testing. Big Pharma companies even hold immunity to lawsuits, if any negative adverse reactions to the Covid-19 "vaccine" occur, even death. If any negative adverse reactions occur after being injected, fault is never put on the Covid-19 vaccine and ignored.. so there is no data on adverse reactions. Its a big mysterious conspiracy this "Covid Pandemic", many people lost their jobs over this "Vaccine" among other "Pandemic" happenings.

This was my favorite job; out of all the jobs I've worked. The team's I worked with here felt like a fun day, it never felt like "Going to work". It was fun and it was paid work.

I was able to meet thousands of people doing Phlebotomy with 2 major companies. First with LabCorp in the south bay at 7 locations. 6 clinics and 1 Psych Ward. Clinical is easy, you register the patient, collect the specimens and prepare it for pickup, so the courier can take it to a testing lab. Same thing at the Psych ward, you just have to be more cautious because there's “crazy” people there. Well, from my experience it's the forced drugs that make them crazy or the poor treatment from staff, granted there are some actual crazy people. I also saw what children are like in a Psych ward. Unfortunately, my observations have led to it being another way parents can abandon their kids. Many of those kids were normal, they were actually being punished by their sadistic parents after observing some encounters. There are exceptions. Going back to adult patients, As far as violence goes, from my observations, it normally happened to the staff who treated patients poorly. If you see a staff member with a black eye, ask around how they treated patients before the black eye. They could also get violent from not wanting to take their forced daily drugs anymore. Most of the time, they are all just roaming the halls peacefully and when you come by it's like they get a visitor. They enjoy your visit and some even request to participate so the doctor would request labs to let them. You also have those who always deny blood work, once in a blue moon that one who always denies will say yes.

I would float between these 7 locations for a year and half, until I grew my skill set to its clinical peak. Depending on the clinic you floated to, an average number was 20-50 venipunctures a day and 50 to 300 patient's total. Granted those who wanted to slack off would really walk slow and take their time, so they had less patients overall. If it was a slow day, you would just take turns as patients came and it would be a chill day. At LabCorp we also rotated positions, you have registration to Phlebotomist to Lab Processing. As a float I learned it all and helped others learn it all if they wanted. Some would only do 1 station and that's it. I think my oldest patient was 103 years old and the youngest being 2 babies under 1 year. Having only seen 2 babies for heel sticks during the whole career. I like to learn everything the job demands, so I observed both heel sticks from those who knew how to do them.

Late 2018, I was training employees regularly as a float and I was told to apply for a leadership position. I declined it, because I wanted more experience (like with babies and heel sticks) before I became a leader. They just don’t see enough babies to gain experience in that demographic.

I believe in being a fully capable leader, not a half-baked leader like what we see in most positions everywhere today. This started my pursuit of becoming a full-fledged Phlebotomist in a hospital setting, I thought they knew everything so I wanted to become that. By the time I left LabCorp, my venipuncture skills were great on the healthy individual. I would rarely miss and my patient feedback was always positive. If they didn't feel the needle puncture or slightly felt it, you did a great job. You also know your skill set is great when others ask you to look at their hard sticks. A hard stick is when a phlebotomist misses a vein or is unable to collect or not collect enough blood specimen. You have 2-3 attempts and if the patient is willing, you pass the patient to another Phlebotomist. The goal is always 1 poke for all specimen needs.

Uber / Lyft

Worked this job as a 2nd job, when needed extra money. Did it full-time for a month once.

Hours: Mostly Part-Time, some Full-Time. (Varies) Before or after work, while working as Phlebotomist.

Rides: Over 5000+

Service Year: Off and on 2017-2018

Duties: Drive to pick-up people and drop them off at desired locations. Repeat until you want to do something else. Most people are respectful, do not think everyone is though.

Turnover Rate: N/A (although most drivers I know that do this, do it because they have nothing else for income)

Applied: Online (no human interaction or interview. Just a background check and vehicle inspection. Able to drive people, after vehicle inspection.)

Relatives with Company: None.

Starting Pay: Based on how many people you drive, how far they go and how much money the company takes from your fare earnings. No Overtime Pay. Now they have a timer for drivers. You are also responsible for all driving costs, fuel, cleaning, insurance (later became rideshare coverage). There are no raises, only decreases in pay. As you are paid per mile and time, which are very minimal at this point. They used to have a bonus system when for example you hit 20-80 riders for the entire week. This bonus system has been removed.

Taxes: (1099) Independent Contractor. both Uber and Lyft are separate entities, so you need to separate earnings for both. You are then taxed on the total fare earnings, even though each company takes a big cut and provides no expense help.

Benefits: None.

Qualifications: None.

Bills: This was used as a second job, while also working with LabCorp as a Phlebotomist. I typically made $500 to $1,500 a week (Before expenses and taxes), driving on my off time. This was before they took away bonuses and lowered the fare percentage for driver's earnings. It was decent side money back then.

Description:

**Under Construction**

Special Note: As this gave me experience driving in a car full-time, please note that you will develop back problems. Car seats are not made for the human anatomy. You will need to buy special car seat cushions that help with this problem. A bottom seat cushion, lumbar back cushion and maybe a neck cushion as well. I had to see a chiropractor for a month after a month of full-time work. The problem does not go away, but it does greatly reduce the poor seating position after purchasing the mentioned car seat cushions.

Reason for Separation: You can stop working at any time, no need to tell anyone that you quit. You will however still need to file taxes that year for what you made if over $500.

Mitsuwa Marketplace

Hours: (8) Anytime during the open store hours of 0900-2100

Service Year: 2008?

Duties: Bagger, Stocking, Meat Department.

Turnover Rate: Moderate - Low (Most employees were still there by the time I left.)

Applied: In-person (Interview in-person)

Relatives with Company: Cousins ' Wife.

Starting Pay: $6.75 hourly (saved around $10k)

Taxes: W-2

Benefits: I don't remember sorry =( , didn't use any either.

Qualifications: None.

Bills: None. Living with parents. All money is being saved, no rent no nothing.

Reason for separation: I don't remember, but I did move up north with my mom for some time. Nothing negative to say about company.

Mitsuwa Marketplace Review

I was a High School dropout, thinking school was useless and found it VERY hard to do any school work out of purpose. So, I just dropped out and took this job opportunity. They are a Japanese market with food court of popular restaurants from Japan. Note not all locations have a food court.

I am a very big fan of Anime and Japanese culture, so this was actually quite awesome to work here. I got to learn a lot of basic Japanese language phrases and be around people who lived in Japan. I was doing stocking, bagging and later on would join the meat dept.

As it was my first job and no father figure, I was a bit unruly. Years later after working here, I went back to visit and spoke with the manager. I apologized for being unruly as a young adult and he said its normal haha. Out of all the grocery stores I worked at, this was my favorite. Originally I thought this was a low quality place. However, after working in American grocery stores.. I learned this was very high quality organization. American stores are much more dirty and management lacks respect from employees most of the time.

The shift for stocking/bagging would be the entire market hours, open to close. I would help bag groceries when it was busy up front, otherwise stocking on the floor. When shipments came, I would help organize the warehouse in the back. They had a manual pallet jack. There was a lot of boxes thrown out as we stocked the floor and I would keep my areas clean/orderly. I developed a crush on my supervisor who started working some time before I left. She was also from Japan as they hire a lot from within and give people from Japan a job. She was very beautiful and smart. I even took her out to lunch, but something went wrong and I couldn't work with her anymore. I can't remember what it was. I requested a new department and they transferred me to the meat department. I never did ask her out besides the lunch thing. I guess something about her bothered me. One thing I remember is she was kinda mean, when she spoke to my cousin's wife. That might have been what it was, anyways..

The meat department was a normal 8-5 everyday. I would use a meat slicer to create sliced meats and grinder to create ground meats. All the meats were placed on foam trays and wrapped in plastic, with a correct name/pound/price label. You would walk out and display what you made and see what else needs to be made or short of. At the last hour of the job, we would do a deep cleaning. This included equipment, knives, cutting boards, floors, take trash out. This would be repeated daily. I did this until I left.

They do yearly dinners for staff at a nice restaurant, that was fun.

Overall this was probably the only job where I felt to be treated good. All jobs after this, I felt like a number. When I left, I got all the ladies flowers and passed them out. Not sure what the significance was for that lol. Perhaps this is what started me doing a big thing when I resign from a job. (Now I just do food since it can be enjoyed by both genders)

Exposure / Helping out in four family businesses

Telephone Communications, Tax Preparing, Gravel Landscaping, Apartment Building Landscaping.

I will not count the family businesses as jobs, more so just experiences. As a kid you know the effort is not really there. Just doing what your told with no thought about it. I did not develop the drive to really learn things until getting on my own.

Apartment Management 

Not the greatest experience, because I felt the tenants could have been treated better if under different ownership. The tasks were simple, but ownership has to approve the work being done and that didn't happen. To start you have tenants living in your building, they present problems and/or inquiries to you. You then fix the problems or tell them they are responsible in fixing those problems. You also answer all their inquiries. A monthly rent collection is taken by check for older tenants, I'm sure the new tenants would have some electronic form of rent payment. I did not collect it personally. We would also be in charge of the landscaping on the building premises. I only really knew how to push a manual grass cutter on the grass and trim the edges with a weed whacker. I am detail oriented and trimming edges is very satisfying to say the least. The owner had problems with previous gardeners and got tired of paying them for problems. Other than that we had some apartments being used for storage because the owner didn't want to pay for construction. There was lost income there for so many years and another thing that bothered me is installing a heavy duty metal screen-door on the owners apartment entrance and not any of the tenants entrances. The tenants had very old plastic screen-doors still.

I was not great at learning things as a child, especially with a very toxic family relationship. It was hard to learn anything when your constantly being degraded. Like now I've learned so much that learning comes really easy now. So, there is a lot of various handy jobs to do on an apartment building and lots of learning. I'd of had to learn how to do all them jobs and what tools go for what, with such a undeveloped learning capability from my degrading family, I just wasn't able to retain anything. That is why they needed a handy man for the property, but no handy man was ever hired. Let's just say the building was very neglected and things were not fixed unless it was an emergency and the owner did it themselves. If I took anything from this experience, it was my first taste of poor building management.

Gravel Landscaping

Normally done by shovel and wheel-barrel. My family member however had a big custom truck that they found to shoot gravel with a conveyer belt system. It even came with a cool remote for the tail conveyer belt. The terrain was desert, so lots of gravel jobs there. It was very hot doing physical labor in the high heat of the desert, but like anything else you get used to it. I loved the manual labor part of it, I've always excelled in physical ability things. A day at work would be prepping the landscape for rock. This would be plucking weeds and placing rolls of fiber cloth on the areas. That was to reduce weeds from getting in the soil. We would go pick up different types of gravel from a rock yard, drive to the client and shoot it out the truck conveyor belt. Then, we would have to level the rock of course. Sometimes we would still use a barrel and shovel, for cleaning up as an example. Rocks would occasionally drop off the conveyer belt and we would have to clean the mess. we would also run out of gravel and maybe a few barrels is all we needed to drop for finishing. That was pretty much the job. This owner was very sociable and funny, I learned a lot of social skills from them. Growing up I didn't laugh much and this was my first experience being able to have fun, socialize and laugh on the job.

Tax Preparing 

A very minimal job for me as a kid. I think I would organize some papers. This family member did all the work and would find an aide with tax knowledge more helpful. I mostly just sat in the office when I had no papers to organize. Bring teen to work thing, I think.

Telephone Communications 

This would be wiring internet/phone cables in a commercial building, often times during beginning stages of construction. The business was doing very well and had big famous client's. I actually got to go to Ben Affleck's Villa and Marvel studio's office to name a few. Besides that I just remember going to big buildings and wire a bunch of cubicles. These wires would start from a reel inside a box. We would pull wire out of it from the longest distance away and create a starting point (the jack outlets) and an end point (Phone system room or Phone Closet). The Wiring was one part of the job, pulling it through the ceiling and down the wall to make an outlet. These outlets would provide Phone lines and internet connections. At the end they would all be spliced onto wire blocks and a phone system connected to the blocks. This would give a number to each wire and each outlet would be labeled with a corresponding number. After that was done, each line could be individually programmed.

It was quite an interesting business. It was just not enjoyable at all with the family member in charge. I was being given the chance to take it over and run this business. I would try to learn enough and run it, it was very easy work for me since I grew up on the computer and went along to work with them a lot. However there was a huge barrier of communication between me and the family member in charge. While the work was easy for me, communication between us was impossible. Even if I was paid a million dollars for taking over the business, I would still not work with this owner. Too much drama, no communication skills.