Do you like going into work every day?
Tuesday, September 13, 2005 by 47songs | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Do you relish getting up every day to meet a new challenge at work? Come in contact with good people?
Or is work a drag? A pain in the...? A heartache? A twisted nightmare? Boring?
Today, my second day back teaching preschool after a wonderful summer vacation, I was kicked, spit at, dealt with a screaming ear piercing temper tantrum, a child who cried the entire time she was there, one who gagged as if to vomit because she was crying so hard, and two children who wet their pants. And yet, I wouldn't give up my job for any other on the face of the earth! I absolutely adore it! Because I know that after a couple more times back at school, these children will come to trust us (the teachers) and the environment we provide for them. And I'll spend the rest of the year as if I'm in the middle of a season long series of Art Linkletter's, "Children Say the Darndest Things."
How about you? Do you like going into work everyday?
Or is work a drag? A pain in the...? A heartache? A twisted nightmare? Boring?
Today, my second day back teaching preschool after a wonderful summer vacation, I was kicked, spit at, dealt with a screaming ear piercing temper tantrum, a child who cried the entire time she was there, one who gagged as if to vomit because she was crying so hard, and two children who wet their pants. And yet, I wouldn't give up my job for any other on the face of the earth! I absolutely adore it! Because I know that after a couple more times back at school, these children will come to trust us (the teachers) and the environment we provide for them. And I'll spend the rest of the year as if I'm in the middle of a season long series of Art Linkletter's, "Children Say the Darndest Things."
How about you? Do you like going into work everyday?
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horizon
Reply #22 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 11:02 AM
Reply #22 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 11:02 AM
Hated my first one for 5 and a half years, current job I haven't had a day yet I didn't feel like going in. It's hard to not like a job that requires you to spend 90% of your time in photoshop. 
Chef Garry
Reply #23 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 12:50 PM
Reply #23 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 12:50 PM
I too teach (adults). The wet pants are a rare issue fortunately but some of them do throw the occasional tantrum - or worse. Most are a pleasure though. If I didn't need groceries, I might consider doing it for free.
Cynder-Elluh
Reply #24 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 1:48 PM
Reply #24 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 1:48 PM
If you like fishing, check out this link, remember late summer and fall: hurricane season, steer clear....
Rest of the year, great fishing and tons of fun.....lots to do and off the beaten path.
http://www.beachview.com/charter_fishing.htm
St. George is my personal favorite!
For you history buffs, so many cool stories in the area, going back to and before pirates!
Rest of the year, great fishing and tons of fun.....lots to do and off the beaten path.
http://www.beachview.com/charter_fishing.htm
St. George is my personal favorite!
For you history buffs, so many cool stories in the area, going back to and before pirates!
Cyberworld
Reply #25 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 2:23 PM
Reply #25 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 2:23 PM
I don't work...so...no i don't mind getting up every morning!!!! 
But i'm a student at the university. As well said: College years rock! 
But i'm a student at the university. As well said: College years rock! 
47songs
Reply #26 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 4:10 PM
You don't have 'homework' Cyberworld?
Reply #26 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 4:10 PM
| don't work...so...no i don't mind getting up every morning!!!! But i'm a student at the university. |
You don't have 'homework' Cyberworld?
Lantec
Reply #27 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 6:04 PM
Reply #27 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 6:04 PM
Thanks Ms Blindbatty, I fished a bit between Crystal River and Cedar Key a few years back. It's a pretty good place to fish.
I grew up about 10 miles from the Mosquito Lagoon, South of Daytona Beach and North of the Cape Canaveral. Fishins' pretty good here too.
Getting back on topic....I bagged groceries and stocked shelves at one of the larger chains here back in the 70's while I was in high school. I remember how much I disliked the job at the time, but as I got older I realized how nice it was to work 8-10 hours and leave and not think about work until I had to show up for the next 8-10 hour shift. Once you have a "career" you seem to take work home, either mentally or actually. It seems like I forgot how to disconnect at some point. I guess that's why I fish. It's the only time I feel disconnected anymore.
I grew up about 10 miles from the Mosquito Lagoon, South of Daytona Beach and North of the Cape Canaveral. Fishins' pretty good here too.
Getting back on topic....I bagged groceries and stocked shelves at one of the larger chains here back in the 70's while I was in high school. I remember how much I disliked the job at the time, but as I got older I realized how nice it was to work 8-10 hours and leave and not think about work until I had to show up for the next 8-10 hour shift. Once you have a "career" you seem to take work home, either mentally or actually. It seems like I forgot how to disconnect at some point. I guess that's why I fish. It's the only time I feel disconnected anymore.
Erk.
Reply #28 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 6:38 PM
Hehe.. one word, ...Excellent!
Right on the money there... Cairns to be precise.
Reply #28 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 6:38 PM
| How's the fishin' there Wreckless? |
Hehe.. one word, ...Excellent!
| Great barrier reef area maybe? |
Right on the money there... Cairns to be precise.
Lantec
Reply #29 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 6:50 PM
Reply #29 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 6:50 PM
Spent some time in Australia while I was in the Navy (US) around 1980. Sadly I only got to spend 3 or 4 days up north while I was there and didn't fish at all. I was busy enjoying dry land for a change. It reminded me a lot of home, very similar climate but a difference in plants.
47songs
Reply #30 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 7:02 PM
Disconnecting, when it's time to disconnect, is extremely neccessary for our own well being, Lantec. This is the first summer it took me almost the full time off to come to terms with a very emotional year I had teaching. For one thing, one of my children was a 3 year old boy with an inoperable brain tumor. I watched his health deteriorate before me in those last nine months, to the point where he couldn't even finish out the last week of school. For me, this past summer was a time for reflecting. Reflecting about how lucky I am to have two healthy children, a wonderful marriage, and an incredible job that allows me to meet and work with such exceptional children.
Reply #30 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 7:02 PM
| It's the only time I feel disconnected anymore. |
Disconnecting, when it's time to disconnect, is extremely neccessary for our own well being, Lantec. This is the first summer it took me almost the full time off to come to terms with a very emotional year I had teaching. For one thing, one of my children was a 3 year old boy with an inoperable brain tumor. I watched his health deteriorate before me in those last nine months, to the point where he couldn't even finish out the last week of school. For me, this past summer was a time for reflecting. Reflecting about how lucky I am to have two healthy children, a wonderful marriage, and an incredible job that allows me to meet and work with such exceptional children.
Jafo
Reply #31 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 7:20 PM
Reply #31 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 7:20 PM
| was kicked, spit at, dealt with a screaming ear piercing temper tantrum, a child who cried the entire time she was there, one who gagged as if to vomit because she was crying so hard, and two children who wet their pants. |
Oh....that's just a typical day, here at Wincustomize....
Sleeping Dragon
Reply #32 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 7:26 PM
Hey, I resemble that remark
Reply #32 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 7:26 PM
| Oh....that's just a typical day, here at Wincustomize.... |
Hey, I resemble that remark
Jafo
Reply #33 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 7:32 PM
Reply #33 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 7:32 PM
My 'real' work has morphed over the past 30 years....used to be 'creative', now it's 'conciliatory'. An Architect no longer designs FOR a client...he designs AGAINST beaurocratic discrimination.
Do I like it?
Would you like to be continuously brown-nosing to the Planners and Councillors that are in your way?
Is it the satisfaction of having a client happy with a design or is it of getting the better of some arsehole hell-bent on vindictive obstruction?
Architecture is [now] a mug's game....and I'm your resident mug.
Lantec
Reply #34 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 8:33 PM
It's the finished product now. You have to be able to take something from that. Once all the inspections are over, the CO is about to be issued and the property ready for people. That's when I show up to just kinda "take it all in"
Yes.
Reply #34 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 8:33 PM
| Is it the satisfaction of having a client happy with a design or is it of getting the better of some arsehole hell-bent on vindictive obstruction? |
It's the finished product now. You have to be able to take something from that. Once all the inspections are over, the CO is about to be issued and the property ready for people. That's when I show up to just kinda "take it all in"
| Reflecting about how lucky I am to have two healthy children, a wonderful marriage, and an incredible job that allows me to meet and work with such exceptional children. |
Yes.
werewolf
Reply #35 Friday, September 16, 2005 2:34 PM
Reply #35 Friday, September 16, 2005 2:34 PM
Yes. I really like my job. It's the upper management that usually brings it all down.
esg-designs
Reply #36 Monday, September 19, 2005 1:28 PM
Reply #36 Monday, September 19, 2005 1:28 PM
Well... yeah actually. I miss it when i don't go. I'll admit that I still don;t like what I do (unload boxes out of a truck) but the possibilities are endless... seriously they are. They have lots of programs for education and moving up in levels.
Plus I get allot of repeated muscle movement.
Plus I get allot of repeated muscle movement.
2badmice
Reply #37 Monday, September 19, 2005 4:04 PM
Reply #37 Monday, September 19, 2005 4:04 PM
Depends on what mood I am in and whether it's busy or not.
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Reply #21 Wednesday, September 14, 2005 10:44 AM