Welcome to The Coaching Department!
(Isn't it so cute, decorated for Halloween?)
Life has been crazy busy since I moved to Provo. It started off super chill, but was frustrating because I could not find a job for the life of me! I swear I had at least 10 interviews before I found The Coaching Department. But looking back, I couldn't ask for a better job. It's flexible with my class and I get to sit down all day long :) I like it. Also, it's almost 40 hours a week, which means I have to organize my time.
Before I got this job, I had oodles of time to mess around and play, but I was also bored much of the time. My class took up a fair amount of time, and now it's taking up even more of my time! (Or so it seems). My class is a Literary Criticism class and is seriously the hardest class I have ever taken. There are so many abstract concepts, it's hard to grasp them all and see how they interrelate and connect. Sometimes I just want to give up on the notion of going to grad school after all. However, I got an A on my first test, so that's good! Also, my professor is super supportive of my endeavors and has offered to help me any way he can. Direct quote: "Let's get you into that grad program!" I'm grateful for his help and know it will be incredibly useful. Now I just need to find the time to study for the GRE and prepare the different parts of the application. That's the real kicker.
My job, as I stated earlier, is at a company called The Coaching Department. The Coaching Department is basically a school to help people set up their own online businesses. There are a million training webinar tutorials and the clients "meet" (via phone) with their coaches for additional training. I am a scheduler. I schedule people with their coaches. I am also kind of like a receptionist because I field all the incoming calls and try to get people the correct help they need (phone numbers, contact info, appointments made/cancelled, and coaches to call them back). I am not the only scheduler. I think there are 9 total, and there are usually 3-5 here at a time. My job is a bit confusing and it's a lot more complicated than it looks! I could go into a lot more detail about what I do, but I don't want to. That would take too much effort to explain. So just be satisfied with fact of knowing that I talk to people on the phone all day. And luckily, most of them want to talk to me, so they mostly are nice!
This is my lovely desk.
I'm rockin' a beautiful headset. It hurts my ears after awhile!
What my typical computer screen looks like. You probably can't tell what's going on, but I have the scheduling calendar on the left screen, the client's information on the right screen, and Skype in the middle. Also, I have a zillion tabs because I set up clients' products (tools that help the clients' build their website).
At this job, I learned a new word: Toggle. As you can tell from my picture above, I do not participate in the art of toggling. What is toggling you may ask? It is switching back and forth between web browsers. I just have mine side by side. I think it's easier that way. And if you knew what toggling was before this post, kudos to you! You know more than the English major.
This is Swagger, our Betta fish.
Every day, at least one of the other schedulers would come over to Swagger's fish bowl (which is right by my desk) and see her just floating there. The scheduler would tap frantically on the bowl and exclaim "Is Swagger dead?!!" When Swagger would swim to life, the scheduling girl would say disappointingly "Dang it. That fish never dies!" Seriously, this was an every day occurrence. Then, sadly last week, Swagger was murdered. They all got tired of feeding her and cleaning out her bowl every so often, so one of the coaches threw her into a field and then flushed her down the toilet. I was sad to see her go. Goodbye Swagger! You will be slightly missed.
The Halloween decorations that replaced Swagger's existence.
And that has pretty much been my life! I've done a lot of fun things since I've been here and I'm grateful to be close to family. That has been a wonderfully nice blessing. I think I would be lost without them. It has been a hard adjustment, but I'm grateful for the change of pace this new life brings. I've learned an incredible amount already.
P.S. In case you were wondering, Jonathon and I have been doing great :)
