Job hunt

I successfully completed my job hunt last April and was hired at the best place for me to work as a student. The business is not opened on weekends and they're flexible with my student schedule so I'm able to go in before and after my classes. This leaves me without the stress of begging and pleading to avoid scheduling me during classes. It's also fantastic because it leaves me time on weekends to drive two hours back home to see my husband and to continue volunteering. I was lucky and the entire job process for my #1 job choice involved e-mail communication without any requests for phone calls. Once hired, I went through orientation where all the videos were old and not captioned. These videos were made by a private company who did not caption their videos. My job found alternative, captioned sources for me to view to complete the orientation.

Technically, the job duties include answering phone calls. I stated in my interview that phone calls are not possible for me, but I would be more than willing to make up for that by handling the e-mails and faxes. They understood and the information did not scare them off. To date, that is still how things are handled. I will work on the problems that involve faxing paperwork while the others make the phone calls. There have been a few annoying jokes/slip-ups where one coworker will ask me to do Such-And-Such duty and I replied, "Sure! Was there something else to do?" "Make phone calls." "I can't do that." "Exactly." I have interpreted their facial expression to mean they are not happy with my inability to make phone calls, which means they do not understand I WOULD LOVE TO DO THAT IF I COULD! It's not a matter of anxiety, or personal distaste for phone calls, I simply cannot use a phone the way they do. It certainly wouldn't be productive to make a phone call and go, "uhh hello? I won't know what you're saying so just listen to me and do everything I say." Always possible I misinterpreted their facial expression. I'm super sensitive to peoples' unusual behaviors and notice when things are different and not normal, but that does not mean I always correctly identify the source of their subtle changes. Sometimes I wish I could choose to be oblivious to peoples' body behaviors. I'm too tuned in!

However, this job is a student worker position. Which means when I graduate in May, I will no longer be able to work there unless I
1) apply to and attend graduate school, then I'm still a student and qualify to work there.
2) get accepted to vet school (would work summers and winter break only).
3) some other position within the company opens up and I apply and obtain it.

That is the main downside to this job. I enjoy working there and I prefer working at the same place for years! I prefer to show that I'm reliable, and who really enjoys the awkwardness of when first training for a job? However, they were aware of my graduation date and they chose to hire me anyways. So I will start looking for a full-time job over winter break in case I do not get into veterinary school my first time applying.