Well, It's been since September and I'm still trying to arrange that part time job at Social Security. I had originally contacted them last spring and was told that they didn't need cardiologists. In the late summer, one of my former partners (who had left the practice years ago) told me that he had a friend who worked there, they probably did need a cardiologist, and that his friend would speak to them on my behalf. He did. So I called a woman at the Woodlawn office (the main Social Security complex) about the position, and she began to gear up to send my information through the system. I tried not to annoy her (I'm Shy, remember) but, like many things in life, you have to make some of your own luck. I spoke with her in September and was told they had to finish up their "year" and couldn't start the process until October. Spoke with her again in October, then in November. At some point she had me speak with another person who arranged for me to get a special number that allows me to contract with the government. Did that and now have my unique "D-U-N-S" number. She then sent all my info to someone else who was supposed to do God knows what to it and then get back to her. I called the original woman two weeks ago and was told I would be hearing something soon. Soon is a word that has no precise meaning. It's more of a concept than it is a measure of time. I'm thinking it's like the word day as used in the biblical creation story-where one day may have represented millions of years of evolution (we're not gettin' into that debate here). Well in my universe, soon is less than 2 weeks. So I tried calling back yesterday but got no answer. I'll try again today. I'm hoping to hear from them before one of those giant asteroids hits us and wipes out all life again.
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