A New Job

Well THAT was fast.

I have been offered a job, interview tomorrow to confirm (backwards, huh?) that we're right for each other.

Working with African Refugee Women, providing health care, particularly to pregnant women and working as a liaison to SDSU to raise awareness, I think?? It sounded interesting, anyway.

It's a NP run clinic- sorta exciting- NP run clinics can be fabulous or miserable, depending on the NPs. And the other 2 sound like people I'd get along with (east-coasters, lol)

What ISN'T fast is how long it's actually going to take to get my licenses to work. So... I think I FINALLY figured out all the paper work. I think. And because it's the lovely state of California, I had to be fingerprinted and have a FBI criminal background check. For which I had the opportunity to pay ALOT of money. I'm starting to think organized crime is alive and well in the licensing boards- seriously- you have to pay everyone off just for the opportunity to make money of which the state and federal government will take a part and then the board certifying board gets it's chunk and you have to pay the state off every year to continue to work.

And you get to apply for the temporary license which you may get in 2-6 weeks if expedited or up to 4 months for your permanent licence. 4 months? you have GOT to be kidding me.

And on to other licenses...

Business licenses.

UGH

So.. Today as the day for me to go to the town hall and get a business license. Until I read the fine print. We will not be getting a home business license. I'm in a mad scramble to find a physical location for the business.

Por Que?

Glad you asked. The lovely city we live in has some rules about how much of the house and specifically which parts of the house you can use.

You cannot use your garage for business use- you have to use it to park your cars. And not just 1 car, but 2. We can't fit 2 cars in our garage without the business stuff. Are they going to tell me I can't live here, either? (I am not making this up- google oceanside business license rules)

OK.. So.. EVEN IF IF IF we move everything out to storage somewhere, there was some other insane rules I can't even remember.. Oh, yes. After you pay to apply for your license, you have to pay and schedule your inspection with the fire department where they check to see that you can park your 2 cars in the garage and use no more than 200 square feet of your house for business reasons. And you get to pay them, too.

But on to the photos-

If you've never visited smog, here it is: