Calm Before the Storm
Starting next week I will be beginning my student teaching. I will be completing the 9 week full time program. I'm not sure how I feel about it yet, other than stressed! I will be trying to maintain a minimum of 10 clients per week, plus the student teaching, which will put me at about 70+hrs per week of work until March 24 th . I will start loosing vacation at work if I don't use it asap, so plan to use vacation to make up for my lack of hours. The change at work seems to be potentially beneficial for the short term. It makes completing my student teaching in just 9 weeks possible, versus the 18 week program. I can now work part time without needing to have a certain number of billable hours, because I can use my vacation. It happens that my vacation accrued for 3 years at 10 hours per month and I needed to use 8 hrs for a day off. Now I get credit for all my saved vacation and only have to use 5 hrs for a full day off. In essence, this converts my existing vacation to an ad