written 5/2021–added to and published 7/2021
I am now a ‘Career Woman.’ Don’t worry, I won’t add a category to my becoming who I am as I’m not entirely sure what I would write about. Haha. I mean it could be pretty boring to hear about my work. It is a wonderful job. One of which I am very grateful for. Plus, I am learning some great, new skills.
I will say it is really weird to be a ‘career woman’ in the working/professional sense. I have considered being a wife and mother my career, with minor jobs mixed in, due to my stupidity for going into debt. However, necessity has arisen and I need to step up to the plate.
As I was listening to a talk, the word “Complacency” came up. It means a feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect, or the like; self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation, condition, etc. A complacent person never works to reach their potential because they feel that it is pointless.
My observation of myself was:
#1 I didn’t go to college, because I worked to put Bill through school. When time became available to get some education I felt it was too much money.
#2 I didn’t think I had the ability to learn how to get a job or what that meant. A ‘real’ job that equaled a career. Most likely because I didn’t think I would need it.
#3 Even though things were tough, I was very foolish and was not good with money, which created ‘my’ debt. That money could have been used to get some education, to help pay down ‘our’ debts, and building savings.
#4 I didn’t think I had the smarts in me to do anything so ‘big and important’.
#5 Most of all, I didn’t take things seriously enough to ‘GET OUT AND STAY OUT OF DEBT’!
Really, the list could go on. I really thought I would never need that kind of education. As for getting out of debt, I was planning on getting completely out of debt by the end of the last school year, and this would have been my last year as a lunch lady, and I would be able to be home, doing the things I loved the most.
I did a lot of learning from the internet, don’t get me wrong, but in things to accomplish here at home like gardening, crafting, raising rabbits, bees, chickens, and creating a blog. While I can earn money in many of these things, I never thought it would be enough or needed for a living, especially with benefits.
I didn’t need to pay to go to college really, as there are lots of resources to learn and improve skills in typing, excel, other office tools on the internet. However, once again I never thought I would need it.
“To be learned is good. “
I would encourage you, young mothers, to find ways to improve skills that can help to get a good job if the need arises. Sure learning things for the home is good too, but balance is a better thing. Preparing for anything that can happen, in different aspects is best.
I will say that I do love the internet and YouTube and the things I have learned to repair, build, make and improve things within my home.
Some of the most frustrating things I had to deal with while trying to find work was, whenever I applied to one, some tabs were needed to move forward on the application process that opened the way for businesses to call asking if I wanted to go to school or I would get so many job finding help sites contacting me about job openings, that were not legitimate jobs. Oh, so many emails.
I have a wonderful job. I feel like I am where I’m supposed to be. I am learning there is more to me than I ever realized. That I can overcome some pretty big hurdles.
Where are you on your journey? Do you have any thoughts that you would like to add that might help others?
**I have been here for 6 months now. I have insurance and have earned rewards for my location hitting it’s sales goals. I have learned oh, so much, I have had busy days and days so slow it felt like I was stuck in the mud with nothing to do. I have a friendship with many of the tenants and have had days when I really disliked the ones who leave garbage, who are uncooperative and have left some gross things to be found. Yuck! You do not want to know.
Days when I was doing really well and other days when the boss would call me, and be chastised for something I did wrong.
I work with a great team. We are ‘Just livin’ the storage dream”!
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