{"id":12155,"date":"2013-12-05T15:24:44","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T15:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/codygrant\/?p=28"},"modified":"2013-12-05T15:24:44","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T15:24:44","slug":"workdetroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/workdetroit\/","title":{"rendered":"#WorkDetroit"},"content":{"rendered":"

At this time last year, I attempted to donate plasma to pay my bills.\u00a0 I filled out the paperwork and sat in an oversized chair and waited for my name to be called.\u00a0 I went to the back room and a man about my age placed a tourniquet on my left arm and fiddled with it for a long time.\u00a0 He brought over an assistant, then a third, and the oldest of the three told me that my veins were too small.<\/p>\n

Just last week, I received my first flu shot in over a decade.\u00a0 It was also the first time a needle had touched my skin since my failed plasma plan.\u00a0 However, this procedure did not take place in the confines of a clinic on the border of Detroit.\u00a0 It instead occurred at my second office, in Livonia, at Trinity Health.<\/p>\n

My fellowship with Strategic Staffing Solutions<\/a> (S3) has me working out of two offices.\u00a0 One on the 29th<\/sup> floor of the historic Penobscot building (downtown) and the second, on the fourth floor of Trinity Health \u2013 where I act as on-site liaison between our IT consultants and the hiring staff at Trinity.<\/p>\n

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Not a bad view from the 29th floor of the Penobscot, downtown.<\/p><\/div>\n

Nearly three months into my placement, things are beginning to work like clockwork.\u00a0 While each day brings something new, I have made an effort to proactively learn no matter which office I\u2019m in.\u00a0 It is getting to the point where I can surmise what is going to be asked of me and I can produce and execute prior to receiving certain tasks.\u00a0 I like to call this optimized responsibility.<\/p>\n

At this time next week, I will donate a bunch of gifts and clothes to a family I sponsored through Adopt-A-Child.\u00a0 My veins may still be too small for some things, but my heart is bigger than ever… and I have S3 and Challenge Detroit to thank for that.<\/p>\n

Kind Regards,<\/p>\n

Cody Grant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At this time last year, I attempted to donate plasma to pay my bills.\u00a0 I filled out the paperwork and sat in an oversized chair and waited for my name to be called.\u00a0 I went to the back room and a man about my age placed a tourniquet on my left arm and fiddled with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}