OK so I left off with my first job after graduating as a dental assistant...

I had hunted for a total of MAYBE 4 days before getting an on the spot interview at an office within a 5 minute drive from my apartment. I was thrilled when I was asked to return a couple hours later for the interview...I came back, Niki waited in the car and read because we were going to head to the farm afterwards, and the interview took over an hour! I swear that guy has NO friends because half of it wasn't even work related! In any case, I got the job and was asked to start the next day...

All I can say is that my welcome to hell sucked ass! I think I came home FUMING more times than not because this guy would literally pull me aside for 30-40 minutes at a time to rant about things that were unrelated to my job and duties...like how the front was booking people. I'm sorry, but go yell at them then!!! This went on for 2 exhausting months before he actually reduced me to tears from frustration...it was either I punch him, or I start crying and walk out. I opted to cry from the frustration and as I grabbed my jacket to leave he pleaded for me to stay and I started yelling. So the recpetionist at the time came running, hearing my loud abuse towards him and closed the door because there were patients in the chairs still...I really didn't care anymore. I let him have it. Told him to go find a therapist because I wasn't interested in his psycho-babble anymore, that he needed to get off his high horse and realise he DOES need help or he'd be running his own practise without staff, and that starting that day he had no assistant. The receptionist kicked him out and BEGGED me to finish the day because they were double booked and would have to surely cancel half their day without me...so I did, for her though. She wanted me to stay for the following day as well but no chance in hell. Sorry hun, but you should quit too!

I ended up leaving that practise in late October and stayed jobless through the trial...I'll do another post about that whole ordeal...but then started applying again and lucked out. I got a call from Northgate dental asking me to do a working interview. I was pumped, but scared because of my first experience with dentists...so I went and tried my hardest to do what I was taught, and within 3 hours the dentist I was working with told me I was hired. I was thrilled! Her name is Dr. Jay and she's the most wonderful person I've ever met...and I'm not just saying that because she's my boss, but when I honestly don't know something, she'll take the extra 5 minutes to teach me and I'll put the effort in to remember it for next time! I LOVE working with her! The only down side is that I'm only on term with her...so as of late July I'll be jobless again. She's trying to keep me on full time to work with her because she likes me too, but her last assistant is coming back from maturnity leave so it's not like she really gets a choice. I told her that if all she's able to do is keep me a couple days per week, I'll take it because I love working with her. I'll find a suppliment to my income somewhere else, just give me a couple solid days that I know I'm working with her and I'll work around that...to me, it's worth it. I've learned so much from her already and she's so willing to show me new things and explain them as we go. She's convinced that I should go back to school to be a dentist...apparently my understanding of teeth is more than it should be for just assisting. I can see overhangs and things that normal assistants would just ignore...

Anyway, time for dinner and I'll write more later!!!