Training to be a CNA

When I was in my teens to early twenties, I had worked in a nursing home as a janitor.  The job was pretty stress free, easy, but low paying.  Shortly after I quit so I could move to Florida, and have done a few odd jobs.  I worked at a BBQ restaurant for about a year and a half before leaving for college, then I worked as a night auditor and front desk at a horrible hotel.  After being robbed at knife point, not once but twice I landed a pretty cool job at IBM working on the phone for tech support.  That was the highest I was ever paid, and the easiest job I had - I would spend most of my time playing around on the Internet and goofing around with coworkers.

It used to be, I could just walk into a business and get a low paying job fairly easily.  With the lousy economy, even McDonalds won't take me.  I've been out of work for over a year now, and no one seems to want to hire me.  I almost got a job, working for Goodwill as a janitor and the manager seemed very interested in me but I have not heard a word since putting in my application.  The job situation here in Florida, is horrible.. you don't so much as even get a call back for an interview.

So, that leaves me with training to be a CNA.  If there is one thing that is abundant in Florida, it is elderly people in need of care.  Working as a janitor in a nursing home was easy, but I remember the ordeal the CNAs would have to go through - and to be honest I am a bit worried.  A lot of places are looking for male CNAs though, my guess is because of all of the lifting that is involved, so I have two things going for me.  A third thing going for me, is my wife knows the person that trains CNAs and she has stated she could get me a job working only weekends, for $300 a week.  That is not so bad, as far as I am concerned.  I have two kids, one five and the other three.  The youngest is not yet in school, and daycare is outrageously expensive.  If I got the job as a CNA this means we get to save on a lot of money that would have gone toward daycare.

The other great thing, would be that when my three year old daughter does go to school (possibly in February) I can go out, and have some alone time.. this would be especially great if I get into sailing.

Sitting around and dreaming

About sailing, I have never even been on a sailboat but it is stuck in my head and has been for months now.  All it took was one youtube video and I got hooked to the idea of being out on the ocean all by my lonesome and having a bit of solitary time with nothing other than nature to keep me company.

I need that isolation from people, just to energize myself.  I was raised in Maine, where I could always just sneak off in the forests and reflect about life.  Now I live in Florida, Spring Hill to be more specific and there is no getting away from people here - not like it was in Maine.  One thing though, is that I live just a few miles from Florida bay and remain hopeful that perhaps, just perhaps I can find some solitude on the water.

Another thing that I found interesting was the level of exploration I could do without worrying too much about inadvertently landing on private property.  I love exploration, but not where I could end up at the end of a barrel with somebody demanding me to get off their property :D.

So..  here I am, day dreaming of owning a small boat.  Just a sailing dinghy to start with, probably no smaller than 12', something to learn how to sail on and to also learn if boating would be something I could become interested in pursuing.