a head start

ok, so.....i downloaded a copy of the official job application for the permanent director's position today...the job has not been posted, so i am ahead of the game....because the first thing I noticed is that the state now requires original and untouched-by-my-hands transcripts from all post-secondary education......and while i do have copies of my transcripts attached to the copy of my original (and successful) nutritionist's application, i set about to acquire these transcripts this afternoon. OSU's was done on-line, with a faxed in signed request, and a credit card....but U of C's required that I mail a check and a signed letter as the mode of requesting, and therefore the transcript for my master of education degree may take 2 or more weeks to arrive.....yikes...good thing i am not in a hurry, or need to drive up there in person.....even with an on-site application, they still reserved the right to 5-10 business days....and that brings me to the application itself...the last time i only needed dates....this time i need not only a listing of where i have ever worked, but also my supervisor's name and phone number, and starting and ending salaries....i have no clue beyond my current job, but figure i can recreate these figures to some extent from social security information sent to me yearly...this lists year-by-year what my income was since i started paying into the system.....1973, by the way...when i worked behind the counter at a bowling alley.....and so i will give these folks in frankfort an approximation of salary.....which will hopefully be good enough.....gentle readers, if you are young and able, be sure to keep a record of all of these details...it will make your life easier at some point.....which brings me to really specific details i still lacked until today, such as the years that i was food service and/or nutrition services director at the hospital.....my desired job requires a minimum of three years as a director....i have been picking my brain for these minute details for weeks.....trying to recall if i took over before or after my second child was born, and then....when was the foodservice taken over by a contract group, and when was i swept into the community education and marketing dept?......i was blessed this day to go to an other wise boring training in frankfort today.....a training that i fussed about all the time i drove up there, until in walked a dietitian who works in bourbon county, and i was filled with joy and relief.....she was hired at the hospital way back when to take my place when i was promoted to director.....and so she was able to confirm that she worked for me from 1985-1988.....a place to start in piecing this all together.....my glass is at least half-full on this dreary march day......