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whitewriterApparently there's no record of when I started up with SJA.
Which sucks because I'm fairly sure I should be eligible for a 10 yr service medal either last or this year -- and why does anyone volunteer if it isn't for these accolades.
Not that I need proof, apparently my memory is good enough.
But for me, if I have strong diaries and notes --- then I should be able to get more than proof.
Feb 21st 2010 was the soundwaves duty and I was still a probationary member then. I remember this because I wrote in my notes that I had to be countersigned for the whole 14 hour duty here
My attendance at this duty is also corroborated in my 2011 paper diary (and my own memories).
I remember, meeting a pregnant woman who still attended the event (despite it being 40 degree heat and so forth) because Faith no more was playing and it was a $150 ticket.
I also remember a young boy looking so grey and ill and having stomach pains (I think combination of heat stroke) who just looked grey. But he ended up being alright and leaving.
None of the these two were in my notes but they're in my head.
On feb 09 2011, I wrote a note in my (paper) diary to bring a passport photo for Carmel.
I thought I came to WSD as a full member. However:
8.4.11 easter show 2011
In my blog like here I write that I am "still a probie".
However the paper diary states I was at the show on the 26.4.11 which corresponded to the Rats and Mouse day -- which I definitely would have been keen to attend. In fact, the easter show wasn't even open yet on the 8/4. Plus on the 8/4 I had Shoko's graduation and a "PM shift" of some sort.
Maybe I accidentally changed the date on my blog.
17.04.2011 ANZAC DAY 5 HOURS (paper diary)
No notes in my blog about this shift.
The paper diary says anzac day parade was on the 17.4.11 ?? (but we all know ANZAC day is always on the 25th).
There's no mention anywhere of the date when my my probationary period ended (which was ridiculously long by the way, and entirely my fault).
In my memory. It was an ANZAC day duty for Glebe. At Martin place
What I do remember was that I was at a duty : and I thought I was probie, -- but the post was empty and someone needed treatment so I went : it was a 5am ANZAC day memorial duty and the treatment was jelly beans with advice to go get a proper meal - and I did an ob 12 anyway. At the time I remember thinking who the hell is going to cosign this ob 12 when I later find out that day that I'm no longer a probie anymore, and therefore no longer need a co-sign.
2013
Official records have me only completing 15 hours of duties but my own paper records calculated 57 hours.
Luckily, I kept extensive records ever since I decided to make being efficient at SJA a priority (2011).
Other discussions about things I read from wayback when
In my old diary entries from 2011 I wrote that my goal was to become a paramedic before I turned 28. I dont state flight nursing in there -- but when I wrote paramedic-- somewhere in my heart I meant flight paramedic (which btw. I would never have made it prior to 28 if I started nursing at 24).
Currently looking back at my old goal, I do think that RN specialising in neuro ICU (by 28) and a now a midwife too (by 32) and now transitioning back to general ICU -- I think I'd be happy as a 21 year old if I knew where I was now.
In 2010 I worried a lot about my friendship groups. About how I fit into certain groups (the old XF pals I hung out with interstate), FOMO due to distance and lack of common ground beyond the X files (making it for shaky friendship ground). I was quite naive frequently projecting my own high expectations for my own 30s on the girls who were in their 30s but hadn't reached what I felt were my own goals for my 30s. Did I achieve my own financial goals? I'd like to say I exceeded them. Was I too harsh on my friends? Perhaps I was projecting my own anxiety as to if I would reach my own goals in my 30s (if they hadn't). I would never have foreseen how the future turned out. Sometimes we just need to relax in our 20s. Things shake out.
So all in all, I don't think it matters the exact date it was granted: I had enough duty hours, and it clearly happened sometime in 2011 -- and only about 8 months after which I became (the world's most useless) RN - and from then on which it doesn't matter if I was a FR or AR or any of those SJA titles that don't exist outside SJA land.
Then I passed through 3 years of hard pain to become a useful RN and now 9 yrs later I think I'm half decent.
Which sucks because I'm fairly sure I should be eligible for a 10 yr service medal either last or this year -- and why does anyone volunteer if it isn't for these accolades.
Not that I need proof, apparently my memory is good enough.
But for me, if I have strong diaries and notes --- then I should be able to get more than proof.
Feb 21st 2010 was the soundwaves duty and I was still a probationary member then. I remember this because I wrote in my notes that I had to be countersigned for the whole 14 hour duty here
My attendance at this duty is also corroborated in my 2011 paper diary (and my own memories).
I remember, meeting a pregnant woman who still attended the event (despite it being 40 degree heat and so forth) because Faith no more was playing and it was a $150 ticket.
I also remember a young boy looking so grey and ill and having stomach pains (I think combination of heat stroke) who just looked grey. But he ended up being alright and leaving.
None of the these two were in my notes but they're in my head.
On feb 09 2011, I wrote a note in my (paper) diary to bring a passport photo for Carmel.
I thought I came to WSD as a full member. However:
8.4.11 easter show 2011
In my blog like here I write that I am "still a probie".
However the paper diary states I was at the show on the 26.4.11 which corresponded to the Rats and Mouse day -- which I definitely would have been keen to attend. In fact, the easter show wasn't even open yet on the 8/4. Plus on the 8/4 I had Shoko's graduation and a "PM shift" of some sort.
Maybe I accidentally changed the date on my blog.
17.04.2011 ANZAC DAY 5 HOURS (paper diary)
No notes in my blog about this shift.
The paper diary says anzac day parade was on the 17.4.11 ?? (but we all know ANZAC day is always on the 25th).
There's no mention anywhere of the date when my my probationary period ended (which was ridiculously long by the way, and entirely my fault).
In my memory. It was an ANZAC day duty for Glebe. At Martin place
What I do remember was that I was at a duty : and I thought I was probie, -- but the post was empty and someone needed treatment so I went : it was a 5am ANZAC day memorial duty and the treatment was jelly beans with advice to go get a proper meal - and I did an ob 12 anyway. At the time I remember thinking who the hell is going to cosign this ob 12 when I later find out that day that I'm no longer a probie anymore, and therefore no longer need a co-sign.
2013
Official records have me only completing 15 hours of duties but my own paper records calculated 57 hours.
Luckily, I kept extensive records ever since I decided to make being efficient at SJA a priority (2011).
Other discussions about things I read from wayback when
In my old diary entries from 2011 I wrote that my goal was to become a paramedic before I turned 28. I dont state flight nursing in there -- but when I wrote paramedic-- somewhere in my heart I meant flight paramedic (which btw. I would never have made it prior to 28 if I started nursing at 24).
Currently looking back at my old goal, I do think that RN specialising in neuro ICU (by 28) and a now a midwife too (by 32) and now transitioning back to general ICU -- I think I'd be happy as a 21 year old if I knew where I was now.
In 2010 I worried a lot about my friendship groups. About how I fit into certain groups (the old XF pals I hung out with interstate), FOMO due to distance and lack of common ground beyond the X files (making it for shaky friendship ground). I was quite naive frequently projecting my own high expectations for my own 30s on the girls who were in their 30s but hadn't reached what I felt were my own goals for my 30s. Did I achieve my own financial goals? I'd like to say I exceeded them. Was I too harsh on my friends? Perhaps I was projecting my own anxiety as to if I would reach my own goals in my 30s (if they hadn't). I would never have foreseen how the future turned out. Sometimes we just need to relax in our 20s. Things shake out.
So all in all, I don't think it matters the exact date it was granted: I had enough duty hours, and it clearly happened sometime in 2011 -- and only about 8 months after which I became (the world's most useless) RN - and from then on which it doesn't matter if I was a FR or AR or any of those SJA titles that don't exist outside SJA land.
Then I passed through 3 years of hard pain to become a useful RN and now 9 yrs later I think I'm half decent.
