BROOD Life Notes

Wanna work part time for the English department?

http://www.umt.edu/hrs/STAFF/023530.html

Too bad no benefits though.

I understand what you mean about politics. Parents aren’t always wise about everything. Especially when it comes to politics. I’ve just about come to blows with my mother about Bush. Finally she has seen the light, but it took a loooooong time, and I wasn’t the one who finally shined some light on it.
New Orleans had to drown before she “got” it.

Yes there are worse jobs out there, but someone with your talent doesn’t need to do them. Can you drive a forklift, just kidding. Gotta fish where the fish are. Look hard, you will find it. At least one that will do you until you can see the eagle soaring over the Blackfoot once more.

GW is the worst president in my lifetime of 61 years. I can do Obama but not Clinton.

Re: Endorsing Obama

I need a new, clever way to do this, too. I’m trying the silent approach as to not draw too much attention to myself, but I feel like a sticker on my gym bag isn’t enough.

I’m thinking about sticking one on myself every day and when someone points it out I’ll pretend I didn’t know.

“You have an… Obama… thingy—let me get that for you…”

“WHAT THE? Hey, it’s yours! Keep it, really. I don’t even know that guy.”

I’m with you when it comes to being emotional/full of rage/have a great guy. My job was “discontinued” this past Friday due to a company merger that happened in the fall. Life has been hell these past few months. Thank goodness for Josh and his willingness to wipe down toilets and fill the dishwasher while I’ve been downing glasses of cheap wine and taking more naps than should be allowed.

Thinking of you, Sarah. I know you can find something amazing that will make you happy (or at least… happier). Give Ben a high-five for me. If, you know, you’re into that kind of thing.

Yikes. Lots of love on the job front. I was fortunate to get laid off from my last job right as I was about to get fed up and quit on my own. Somehow it didn’t seem worth it to commute 3 hours a day, travel several times a month, and get sexually harassed on a daily basis for a job that was decidedly not what I wanted to do with my life. Unfortunately, this happened over six months ago, and nothing new has come up yet. I still think I made the right decision, and if your job is making you that miserable then quitting would probably be the right decision for you, too.

It’s great that you have someone so supportive in your life. I think that’s probably the most important thing to have when everything else seems to be a wreck.

Good luck with the changes, Sarah!

Sarah,

I should not give you advice about crappy jobs and staying with them. I quit jobs without having other jobs or other plans. I’ve done it … oh… three significant times. And I’ve always found something better, and I’ve always been happier. And my father/husband/boyfriend/mother always freak out.

My rule? No matter how much someone else loves you, YOU are the one who is most concerned about having good mental health. And if you’re not, you should be. If your mental health sucks, you are the only one who can fix it and you are the most invested in fixing it. Three times in my life my mental health depended on me saying, “You guys are eff-wads and I can’t be here anymore.” Although that’s nowhere near as eloquent as Robert Frost’s “Two roads divulged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference,” for me it has the same sentiment.

Well, more or less.

The best of luck. Call me if you want to do something rash.

Farg.

Please change the word “divulged” to “diverged.”

Divulged, indeed.

I vote ‘life notes’ a check plus. I very much enjoyed this one, but I’m not sure future versions would be as good. Definitely above a medium rating though.

Fights happen. Crappy jobs happen. At least you don’t have a hacking cough. And, at the end of the day, you can go home, ist back, and say, ‘yes, my ‘real job’ is crappy, but it’s not really what I’m working for.

Best of luck!

Showin’ the old Aswell colors huh kiddo!

Sorry work sucks. We all have been there, and you just power through. You may want to go back and take out the company name though — not because you care what they think, but because it may influence people that may want to hire you. Do I want to hire someone who may get upset with me and then publicly humiliate me? No. Just a thought.

And as far as politics go? At least mom and dad like McCain. It could be a lot worse. All politicians are sycophantic ass-hats anyway — as long as we keep the bat-shit crazy ones *cough*huckabee*cough* out of the whitehouse, we should be generally ok.

Amen sister, amen.

Parents and politics never mix, mostly because they are old and we are young(er) and prone to making judgments based on the world as we know it, not as they remember it. Or at least, that’s my theory.

I am sorry that you find your work so soul-sucking. Never a good place to be and always harder when other options are few and far between. Life is too short to lose your soul one spreadsheet at a time…I’m trying to claw my way out of my own employment hell, and I have to say, it’s like trying to dig out of Alcatraz with a spoon. Which is to say, it’s not impossible but the subsequent swim to shore is long and cold and probably through shark-infested waters. From what I hear though, it is well worth it to take that leap towards following your bliss – your opportunity will come!

Lastly, your Ben sounds like a great guy, and I too have had those moments, arriving home to find that my man (also named Ben) has tackled that impossible chore that was going to make me cry in the first place, and seeing that he has the dirty-deed vanquished, I cry anyway out of overwhelming gratitude. Apparently Bens are good men, and we’re lucky girls.

Yeah Sarah, you might consider removing the name of your company and all evidence it was ever here.

The dishwasher thing…. wow! Just…wow.

I graded essays for a Pearson Education once. Now that was an awful job… easy though, just click on “zero” a hundred times in a row, and we got free candy.

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