Basically (January 21, 2017)

I have been living in the homeless shelter for 25 days now and while I haven't found a job, I have learned a lot about people, their addictions, their weaknesses, what makes them strong and what brings them to their knees.  It is so easy to pass judgement on a person based on where they live, as I learned when I was fired from a job in December after 6 days because, I feel, it had to do with living in a homeless shelter.  

In all honesty, they fired me before I had a chance to quit. That's another story altogether. Suffice it to say, I, as a CMA interact with my pediatric patients.  Their MA's don't except for taking vital signs.  On top of that the MA that was "training" me was a condescending little witch who thought herself quite superior to EVERYone in our department and I am certain she found it quite annoying when, after every time she introduced me as a "New MA", I piped up with, "I've been a CMA for 10 years. I'm new to this practice", because she's an RMA (inferior certification to a CMA as far as I'm concerned) and isn't even remotely close to having the depth and breadth of experience I have as a certified medical assistant.  I know that bugged her too.  I'm still chuckling about their SOP binder and all the errors I marked for correction and/or deletion or process I questioned based on how they trained me. They won't see those mark-ups for a long time, of that I am sure.