By Joan Whetzel
I’m still working part time while looking for full time
employment. I haven’t been wasting my time though. I have been gaining job
skills.
My current part time position has taught me to admit
patients to the Clinic, update their charts, and perform data entry skills.
Yeah, yeah, I worked at a doctor’s office many years ago – before computers
were in use everywhere. (I’m dating myself here). Also we did patient admission
and charting were done differently back then.
I have also taken some classes on Excel and Power Point.
These classes have a number of advantages.
1.
They’re taught in person and are hands on. I got
to do what they were teaching right then and there and save it to my thumb drive
so I could play around with these new tricks at home.
2.
They are taught at the local public library so
they’re close to home.
3.
Since I have a library card, they’re also free.
4.
The best part is that a lot of the jobs I’m
looking for require knowledge of Microsoft Office, so now I can claim to have
some skills in parts of Office other than Word.
It’s not much but it’s more than I had a year and half ago.
So I guess I’m making some kind of progress.
