Work
16 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
in life, Uncategorized, updates, Work Tags: ABD, DFCS, Work
Good news on the work front. No not a new job making $20,000 more a year, that would be nice. I did though get to make one more step up the ladder at work. For those who don’t know currently I served as a unit supervisor for a Medicaid eligibility unit. I supervise seven employees over eight counties. We determine eligibility for aged, blind or disabled (ABD) Medicaid clients that apply at their local DFCS office.
Well the supervisor over us recently retired. She got fed up and took it to the house. I have been eying her job for a while now since my long-term goal is to be ABD program administrator for the State, yeah pretty lofty goal I admit.
So since no one in the higher-ups in our region understand ABD, they needed someone to put “in charge”, and they can’t hire anyone else because basically the state is broke. This is where I come in, basically I am now the “intermit” supervisor for ABD in the region. What does that mean? Basically I am the link between the region and the state office, plus I get to make decisions for the regional ABD unit. I am pretty excited about it, I would be a heck of a lot more excited about it if I was able to be the actual supervisor and earn the salary that goes with that title. For right now though I will accept the challenge and the experience that comes with it. Maybe in a few years I will be able to move into the actual position if not in my current region then one somewhere in the state.
