Dispatch

Published Tuesday, October 25, 2005 by Joshua | E-mail this post

Well, I have been a bit slow on the updating here lately. Mostly because I never know what to write on this thing anymore. It's not like my life is that interesting these days. Just going to work and going to church - the same old routine. Anyway, the major news in my life right now is that I am going into dispatch training. That's right after a full year at my job I am finally going to learn to do what I was hired to do. Well, I was hired to do the calltaking thing I am doing now too. The good news is that if I ever make it through this training I will be a dispatcher which to me is a more respectable job and when I get my new title I also get a raise along with it. A real raise, not like that pathetic yearly 1% they just gave us that doesn't even cover the cost of living. Although it doesn't make a huge difference it is a lot more than my original starting pay a year ago was going to be. The bad news is that my schedule is going to be all over the place for about 9 months before finally staying on one shift and if I don't make it through training I'm fired. My only option would be to go back as a temp in call-taking till I could find something else to do. As for now, I think the schedule thing is working out so far. According to the training coordinator I will probably be going to first shift for at least the first stage of training during which I will be in the Police Information Center. I will still have Sundays and Mondays off so that I can still go to church on Sundays.