Life Planning 101

Today I met with one of the fieldwork coordinators to discuss the fieldwork placement and planning, but let me back up...

One of the steps towards becoming an OT is completing different levels of fieldwork. Fieldwork I takes place in conjunction with your academic coursework and is done on a very part-time basis. This semester it's about 3 hours every week starting sometime in October. Fieldwork II generally occurs after the completion of all academic coursework and consists of 2, 12-week, full-time placements in an OT facility/organization of some sort. And now I continue...

If all goes as planned, my academic coursework should take roughly 4 academic semesters (2 years), which means that I will be starting my level II fieldwork in the summer or fall of 2009. But apparently we need to start applying for our placements now. Scary, huh? I will probably do one placement somewhere locally, mainly because it's easier and I would also be closer to family and friends. For my second placement I would really like to go elsewhere, for example, back to Wyoming.

In the coursework office there are files upon files of organizations that we have (or have had) fieldwork contracts with. Guess how many there were for WY... none. None for Idaho either, which is the closest state to Jackson. Isn't that just peachy? I guess what that really means is that I have my work cut out for me, but the fieldwork adviser suggested that if I didn't have any solid leads by December I should just move on. I'm trying to get my networking groove on, but I really don't know... What happens, happens, right?

Listening to: Once Soundtrack (I'm in a cliche mood, but I guess there's no better music to listen to when you're in such a mood)