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.
