I got a job.
a real, paycheck, a real schedule.
I'll get out of the house more.
I'll take to real, speaking, breathing and hopefully, somewhat intelligent humans.
I'm not anti-social, I'm not a hermit.
I've just worked, from home, running our business and being an at home, present and availiable mom for the last, oh...7 years?
Since '97, when I left a job working for a fetish clothing/corset maker to run our bar, the only "outside employment" I've done has been a short stint in the VIP tent for Cirque du soleil, and maybe a few freelance jobs for friends when they needed extra help.
so it's time, I am excited.
but....
I wonder how it will all pan out.
I've been able to travel at the last minute, focus on whatever major occurance/problem/issue my family has that has come up and pretty much availiable to my mister and my daughter whenever I was needed.
I'm thinking the adjustment will be difficult for my daughter the most.
when I fisrt started looking for outside employment...she cried and said she liked having a fun, at home mommy to hang with...
she's dealt with that and is pondering on how thbis change will affect her.
Also, I'm thinking this will be interesting for the mister as well. I don't think he has a good grasp on just HOW MUCH stuff I really do. when the laundry piles up, when he begins to do his part WRT, taking the miss to her bellydance classes, her martial arts, volunteering at school, picking up/dropping off, dealling with illnesses and not going to school, when groceries are low and dinners are not on the table, I think he'll see that all this "mom stuff" isn't as easy as he beleives.
now, I don't want this to sound like I'm some June Cleavage here. He does laundry, he does his share of childcare and he is the only one who knows HOW to use the floormate, hence...I've yet to mop my floors in two years he does it.
I just don't think he's got a grasp of the little home/mom tasks I do, because *I'M* the one who is home to do it.
I also think he's gonna be bummed when I can't just pack and leave according to his travel whims. (he works hard, very hard, to make it possible to travel, he's not about bigger houses, lots of clothes...it's all about toys and FUN.)
good thing I l.ook good in Orange, I'm gonna be a "plumbing specialist" at home depot.
this is gonna be interesting indeed.
a real, paycheck, a real schedule.
I'll get out of the house more.
I'll take to real, speaking, breathing and hopefully, somewhat intelligent humans.
I'm not anti-social, I'm not a hermit.
I've just worked, from home, running our business and being an at home, present and availiable mom for the last, oh...7 years?
Since '97, when I left a job working for a fetish clothing/corset maker to run our bar, the only "outside employment" I've done has been a short stint in the VIP tent for Cirque du soleil, and maybe a few freelance jobs for friends when they needed extra help.
so it's time, I am excited.
but....
I wonder how it will all pan out.
I've been able to travel at the last minute, focus on whatever major occurance/problem/issue my family has that has come up and pretty much availiable to my mister and my daughter whenever I was needed.
I'm thinking the adjustment will be difficult for my daughter the most.
when I fisrt started looking for outside employment...she cried and said she liked having a fun, at home mommy to hang with...
she's dealt with that and is pondering on how thbis change will affect her.
Also, I'm thinking this will be interesting for the mister as well. I don't think he has a good grasp on just HOW MUCH stuff I really do. when the laundry piles up, when he begins to do his part WRT, taking the miss to her bellydance classes, her martial arts, volunteering at school, picking up/dropping off, dealling with illnesses and not going to school, when groceries are low and dinners are not on the table, I think he'll see that all this "mom stuff" isn't as easy as he beleives.
now, I don't want this to sound like I'm some June Cleavage here. He does laundry, he does his share of childcare and he is the only one who knows HOW to use the floormate, hence...I've yet to mop my floors in two years he does it.
I just don't think he's got a grasp of the little home/mom tasks I do, because *I'M* the one who is home to do it.
I also think he's gonna be bummed when I can't just pack and leave according to his travel whims. (he works hard, very hard, to make it possible to travel, he's not about bigger houses, lots of clothes...it's all about toys and FUN.)
good thing I l.ook good in Orange, I'm gonna be a "plumbing specialist" at home depot.
this is gonna be interesting indeed.
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it's scary really. but we've restored 3 '40's era homes. so we've spent many a day and night there.
I'll be a plumbing spcialist, helping customers with their kitchen bath stuff, when they aren't designing entire kitchens etc.. sorta qualifying customers to keep the designers free for the major projects.
I hope it didn't sound like I'm making the mister out as a baffon. in reality, he's the better parent. She's just used to me and I doubt he's even aware of all the minutia in the day to day.
good luck with the job. I do hear mostly good stuff as far as how Home Depot trreats the employees.
we'll see.