registered nurse

nutrition assistant

maintenance person

heavy equipment mechanic

assistant

Onondaga County

I am a proactive, team player who is willing to work hard to get things done. This past summer I interned at the Onondaga County District Attorney’s office where I was put in charge of multiple tasks. I learned the entire indictment process and assisted administration in writing up official indictments for the Grand Jury proceedings. I also compiled and edited a step-by-step instruction manual on the entire Grand Jury process for future and current interns, employees, and lawyers, which they told me they found to be incredibly clear and informative. On top of that, I collaborated with current Assistant District Attorneys on current cases by examining, extracting, and editing desired data, evidence, and information used to assist them in them in their court room action. I consider myself hard-working, organized, passionate, cooperative, and competitive. These traits have been heightened by being on the Syracuse University Men’s Rowing team, where I am a part of a team environment, where everyone is held to a high standard as well as being held accountable to and for each other. On this team, I am a member of the Leadership Council, a committee of six members of the team that were voted to the spots based on leader-like qualities and dedication to the sport. As a member of this council, I have grown to be responsible for pushing the team in a positive direction academically, athletically, and socially. We work together to determine various methods and ways to boost athletic and academic performance of all members on the team. In addition to this, being on the team has made me easily coachable and trainable with a strong desire to learn and improve my knowledge of Finance, business, and myself.

I would go to the office check in and then we would go out into the community and do outreach, education home owners or renters regarding lead based pain and how to clean and report it to landlords.  Brochures would be provided to help home owners/tenants to have contact information, resources and access to what agencies are available to assist in the county.  
I've learned to listen to what the need of the clients were and provide them with the needed information, some people don't know about lead until it was brought up to them, information is not always right there when you need it but if someone wants to learn then we provide that information.
Work place culture and management was necessary to have order and everyone did as required, we were outside most of the time so it was a lot of walking and meeting different people in the community.
The hardest part of the job was definitely walking.  The most enjoyable part of the job was serving those in need and providing the information or test results of children that were tested for lead exposure.

Working at WIC gave me a lot of different skills. You have to know how to multi-task, have to have a lot of patience and be able to learn quickly. WIC is very fasted paced and there are a lot of participants to be helped daily. You work in a very stressful environment and have to learn how to deal with angry participants. You get yelled at on a daily basis by some participants and you have to learn how to calm them down and help them the best you can. The WIC staff is like family; when you all have to work fast and as a unit you just become close and learn to rely on one another. The hardest part of the job would definitely be having patience when you are being yelled at and trying not to take that personally. You have to remember that you are helping young children who need the assistance and just try and calm down the parents are that are angry. The most enjoyable part of the job would be seeing the babies grow up. You get to see the families come in with their newborns and get to see them every 3 months and watch them grow up. It's a very rewarding experience.

Complete Administrative reviews for appeal requests. Expungement of aged cases. Assist in social investigations for custody by clearing names through the State Central Registry for abused/maltreated children. Reception-answering the multi-line phone, signing clients in and directing them to the appropriate worker or supervisor. I have learned different child-welfare laws, different ways to help people, the computer programs used in my department, and different case-management techniques. The hardest part of my job is coping with the trauma and pain that children go through. The most enjoyable part of my job is knowing that I am a part of keeping children safe, as well as being able to interact with clients and help them with their situations.

Management enforces policies one day and not the next - depends on the agenda. The dress code & attendance policy enforcement is lax at best, plenty of workers violating each policy. If they like you then you are ok but if not counseling memos and headaches.  Picking and choosing who their policies are enforced on. Never consistent. High school/middle school mentality. The quality of work doesn’t matter as plenty of workers just collecting checks and do bare minimum. Nobody is held to any standard & when they try it’s just a joke. Most supervisors are glorified babysitters rather than leaders. Most have no backbone and are just happy to be there. No forward thinking just yes men/women. The union is no different - weak and absolutly no help improve anything.

Onondaga County Department of Corrections was a learning experience in my life.  I worked there for almost 4 years and gained many skills.  Though there is not much room for movement or advancement it had many opportunities for succeeding.  The management and administration on the other hand were always very distant, sometimes not ever having a conversation with them but they make all the decisions regarding your career.  It was a stressful work environment but that comes with working in a correctional facility and the territory.  All in all I enjoyed the people I met and the skills I learned while working at that facility.

I loved the work I did as a MCH nurse.  I loved my coworkers and the flexibility the job offered when we were located at 501.  Once our office was moved to the Civic Center people began to get sick, physically due to the dirty building, and difficulty and dangerous walk.  The pay was very poor for a full time BSN nurse. It made doing difficult work under difficult circumstances even more difficult.  I miss my people and my patients but I dont miss the negatives of this job.  It was very stressful moving to the civic center and walking multiple blocks to and from parking garages just to get into work whether rain, snow or shine.  The work/life balance was also difficult as there is NO OPTION to work PART TIME and PTO was limited.

A typical day of work was dependent upon where we were during an election cycle. Typically during the slow periods, we registered new voters, updated info on existing voters. Mailings to voters were made as acknowledgements, transfer/confirmation of information received.
 Prior to elections there were deadlines established by the state to get persons registered, to receive info on candidates and upload into the system making sure requirements are met.
 Poll books are printed and "suitcases" are prepared to send to polling sites for an election.
 Post election "suitcases" are emptied, ballot numbers are tallied and reconciled with computer printouts from voting machines, etc

As Head Operator I was responsible for	maintaining the plant effluent concentrations within State SPEDES Permit and Federal discharge                                  permit limits.  I prepared, maintained, submitted State DMR reports on plant operations and maintenance.  I interpreted  lab results, took corrective action to control process, determined chemical feed      rates, recycle and wasting rates, for the plant.  I supervised an exceptional group of Operators and had great I/E and Maintenance staffs.  Working with these people was the most enjoyable part of the job, it was both an honor and a privilege to work with men and woman during my tenure there.

The sheriff himself is a great man that cares about people that work for him. Some of the administrators in the individual divisions are the exact opposite and head hunt you every chance possible. The internal affairs unit makes up their own stories ahead of time and don't care about truths just what they want the truth to be and enjoy trying to discipline you. The county itself will make you wait years past your contract to get a raise, don't even offer enough to keep up with cost of living and when they do finally give an offer it's so low that they just hope leaving you waiting on it long enough that you will just say yes and try not to pay retro pay for all the years they made you wait.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Registered nurse 7 salaries reported	$61,323 per year
Nutrition assistant 9 salaries reported	$51,816 per year
Maintenance person 3 salaries reported	$16.00 per hour
Heavy equipment mechanic 4 salaries reported	$56,337 per year
Assistant 3 salaries reported	$17.00 per hour

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