Hi Ho Hi Ho It's Back to Work I Go

Well it's been fun. Since June 2014 I have been gainfully unemployed with Kristin being an incredibly gracious sugar momma.  However, suddenly I have found myself in a state of dual employment.  In addition to my role as a student tutor to first year dental students, I recently had the opportunity to get back into a real dental office cleaning teeth.  The dentist that I worked the most closely with at Lane and Associates during my time there recently stepped out and opened his own office Parkside Family Dental in Cary.  Dr. Marbell and I have kept in touch ever since I left work and I was thrilled when he offered for me to come up and spend some days in his office.  I was able to work with him two days during my fall break as well as the first Saturday after the break.  It was an incredible experience.  He has only been open a few months and is still growing so the schedule wasn't too hectic and honestly it was the perfect pace for me to be able to get back into things.  I got the chance to do some hygiene work cleaning teeth as well as sit in with Dr. Marbell and observe and learn from him as he saw patients.

He has a beautiful new office in the Parkside Town Commons shopping center and it was fun to get to see how he has set everything up and check out the new equipment.  A lot of the software and equipment he is using was new to me so it was also exciting to gain experience with all of it.  He is also doing braces in his practice so he spent a lot of time showing me some of the background work that goes into that and teaching me the process.  All of this will be incredible experience as I advance through these programs in school.  He is usually open one Saturday a month so I hope to keep making trips back to Cary to work with him some on weekends and during my breaks.

I also just recently started my tutoring work.  I had been hired a few months ago, but hadn't been scheduled any tutoring hours.  When they hired tutors from our class they designated half of us as lab tutors and half as academic tutors.  My assignment was in lab and the first year students have just now gotten started up in the lab, building teeth out of wax.  Last Sunday was my first day doing any tutoring and I thoroughly enjoyed it.  The student I was with was really sharp and receptive and just needed a little bit of guidance and one on one feedback.  Now that the first year students have started lab I think this will be a more consistent commitment for the foreseeable future.

While I have yet to receive a paycheck from either of these jobs it has already made me feel like a hardworking student of old.  I'll be able to brag to my grandkids "Well you know, when I was in school your grandma worked hard and I worked two part time jobs in addition to school to help support us."  The fact that I'll only actually be working about 15 hours a month won't need to be mentioned.