Continuing my Saturday Series: All About - getting to know a bit more about me, I’m sharing my jobs ~ (I started working at 15 and had different jobs at college and during the summers)
- I’ve been an optician.
- I’ve waitressed.
- I’ve scooped ice-cream.
- I’ve worked in maintenance at a factory - with the nickname “Friday” - I painted smokestacks on the top of the building too!
- I’ve worked as a medical records girl.
- I’ve nannied.
- I’ve worked in a lab at a greenhouse working with newly developing plants in test tubes.
- I’ve taught, substitute taught, been a reading tutor.
- I’ve worked at Yogi Bear Campground for 2 summers in kids and the office.
- In college I was able to watch a lovely little girl and run errands. That family was like my second family when I lived in Nashville.
My parents taught me to work & work hard. I am grateful for the work ethic they instilled in me. I have worked jobs post-college that other people wouldn’t touch. Hey, you gotta do what you gotta do.
I used to be a teacher - I was the crazy High School Spanish teacher who would stand on the desk, sing songs, get the kids up with puppets and have the Kindergarten calendar on the wall to get the point across. I loved it. I loved being with the kids, & teaching them a new language. It’s the neatest thing to watch kids learn to read. I think that’s why I love teaching Kindergarten/first grade as well. There’s something about it.
When I resigned to move away, and didn’t (whole ‘nother story) God opened another amazing door for me to coordinate birth-5th grade kids at my church. This is where I just resigned from. I loved my job. I worked with an amazing team of pastors, their families, and the church families and volunteers. Really, if you all lived here, you’d think the same. God blessed me with this opportunity and it really was a tough decision to walk away.
It came to the point this winter with 2 kids that I either had to put my kids in daycare (nothing wrong with that) and continue working, or resign and stay home with them. Two young kids under 3 and having a husband working long hours at a small business with Sundays the only sure day off, helped to make that decision. We needed to make sure our family and marriage was healthy. So, I resigned. I have days where my stomach drops and the tears come because I miss it. BUT, I know that God has given me this opportunity to stay at home with my kids, what I always wanted. My mom was able to stay home until I was 9 & I wanted to do the same.
Difficult decisions - what is a hard decision you had to make lately? How did you do it?
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I love all your jobs! My Mimi says “variety is the spice of life” all the time
I worked in retail. then popped popcorn (which is where Russ and I met) followed by teaching pre-school. Now I have the greatest job yet! We are right in the middle of several hard decisions, they come around every couple years in the AF, ha! It’s taking a lot of praying and “letting it ride”- seeing what happens if we just let go. (And I had a french teacher that stood on the desks, danced and sang silly songs- I still remember a great deal of french!)
I’ve just put in a two month notice with all of the families that are clients at my home daycare, I’m closing and becoming a stay at home mom week days and trying to find something, anything, for weekends. How did you like waitressing? That is what I’m looking at next I think, for weekend only pay it might be my best option, am I right in assuming that? Wish it were easier times to be a single income family, that has made it really tough, but like you we knew it was better to have our home back, even if it comes with sacrifices.