Flying All Over the Place: April 13 - 19
April 13-19. Life returned to normal. Nobody was out of town and Christine and I both returned to work. Of course, the week did have its complications. For the past several months, I’ve been planning to move from one application team, at work, to another. I will move from supporting our clinic billing application to supporting our clinic electronic medical records application. But, before I can switch, I have to be certified in the new application. Well, at Monday’s workplan meeting, my team lead told me that it was time to actually buckle down and get certified. He wanted me to finish the certification by May 1 — just 3 weeks away.
That may sound easy. It’s not. Certification on the EMR involves 3 classes, 3 tests, and 2 hands-on projects. I took the classes a year and a half ago. But I hadn’t studied since and I hadn’t started any of the tests or projects. Essentially, I would need to relearn everything, take the tests, and do the projects. All in 3 weeks, all while doing my normal customer support work. Yikes!
This started a series of 50+ hour work weeks. I pretty much put the rest of my life on hold and got down to business. During this first week, I put in 14 hours on my certification and 57 hours overall. It was hectic, but I was able to submit my first project and start preparing for my first exam.
Needless to say, I didn’t see Christine and the girls all that much.