blurred Is getting rid of the garbage in my life!
At this point, I would just like to work. Having a paycheck every two weeks would be nice. It is not that I was ever a Goldman Sachs/Wall Street type employee, just an office manager who is now aiming (lowly) for a cashier job at the local drugstore. Sad, but true, there just isn’t anything out there.
In June, I spent a week at my Dad’s place in Illinois. I was there to help take care of him after surgery. Unfortunately, he had a tough time afterwards. The poor man was in the hospital the day I returned home, and ended up being there for 5 days.
Before he went “under the knife”, Dad took me on a tour of his workplace. (He is a retired police officer, and still works there part time, handling registered sex offenders.) He told me something very important while we saw the place. It was “When I’m here, I feel great because I’m doing something useful. I dread it when my shift ends, because I know that I’ll feel like crap again as soon as I get home.”
Coming from a 73-year-old man, this is pretty powerful! In our society, we believe that old people should retire and get the hell out of the workplace for their own good as well as that of the employer. I’m sure that my father is not the only older man who benefits from meaningful work. As us “baby boomers” move towards retirement age, we need to challenge society’s attitudes and demand more employment options for those over 60. And better ones as well. I’m sorry, but being a greeter at Wal-Mart isn’t going to cut it for every older person, nor should it be expected to.
blurred Is getting rid of the garbage in my life!
Changing jobs has helped. Unfortunately, my brain is still atrophying at an accelerated rate. No wonder I spend so much time on the net.
I’m going to a local university next year because it has a good art program. I want to be an animator but I am not sure if I’ll get a job after I graduate. I like drawing and I’ve made flash animations before and I enjoy doing that. My dad says that I’ll be broke if I’m an art major, so he wants me to be a computer programmer or a technician. I am not sure how I can animate to make money. I know I am not gonna work for those 3d movie making companies like pixar or dreamworks. They’re so good. Oh well, I’ll get my BFA and hope for the best.
I’m totally in the wrong major. Accounting! I dont know wat im thinking. i love art and travelling and anything but this… my exams r coming up, after the exams, il have a ba-accounting diploma, then a degree and an mba in a couple more years, after that ill be sitting in an office doing something i dont even like doing. i dont know wat to do :(
Beautiful_Mess28 will honestly enjoy life today and anyone she comes across within it
Life is run by the clock in the modern world. Whatever happened to working to live, not living to work? I wouldn’t be able to even survive let alone exist in that place.
I have nearly done this! Wow! Maybe it is because of this Website. In that case, I shall move on to the next of my 7 things when fully completed and see! If I then complete the next and the next… goals, 7 Things can be my best friend. Ever!
Have done nothin for a couple of weeks toward this goal and yet it is my most urgent of to dos.
blurred Is getting rid of the garbage in my life!
Work has been, shall I say almost pleasant, since my boss has been on vacation. Unfortunately, that will all end because she returns on Monday. I am NOT looking forward to it at all. I know re-entry into the daily grind after a long vacation is difficult but to top that off with a sizable time difference is going to be a bitch.
I just want to stick around long enough that I can put a noticeable dent in my school loans without zeroing out my savings.
