Val's SS journal- Fair food! Yea!

[valmom]

We boiled inside on the stove last year- and heard all the horror stories of everything coated in sugar. I really wasn't a problem for us. Maybe because we only boiled to get about a gallon and a half of syrup. It did humidify the house well!

 

[valmom]

I am about ready to quit my job. I am a pharmacist. I want to be a hospital pharmacist. I don't like retail- I don't like people well enough to deal with customers. I left my hospital job to move up here and start over. I currently work in a facility that does mental health and substance abuse. It is only sort of hospital work. I am convinced our nurses work there because they can't work anywhere else. I am convinced our administrators are corporate apologists that are going to drive the facility into the ground with bad decisions. Insurance payments don't cover the costs of doing business. It is getting hectic, I can't keep up with the pace any more. The administration is convinced if we do more of what we are doing faster we will break even. Not.

I tend to go along and go along until I snap. Its what I did in my last job. I am snapping. I am liable to walk in tomorrow and quit. I don't care.

I want to go back to working with people who need my knowledge of biochemistry and pharmacology. Real people who are sick. And there aren't any real hospital jobs anywhere near here.

I want to stay home and make soap and clean the chicken cooop and ride my horses (who haven't been ridden since I moved up here). Either that or I want to curl up in a ball and give up.

 

[justusnak]

So sorry your job is getting to you. Is there another place you can work, IF you were to quit? Is your household dependant on your working? Not being happy in your job is the PITTS! UGH!
Im sorry you are feeling this way...but..no quitting!

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

sorry honey, dont let the turkeys get you down.

*hugs*

 

[Dace]

Awww, how bout a big ol' hug?


I am sorry that you are having a hard time. No decent advice to offer, but I wanted you to know that I care

 

[FarmerDenise]

It sucks being stuck in a crappy job with stupid people!!!

I was thrilled when they layed me off!!!

Hang in there, maybe they'll lay you off

 

[valmom]

Thanks for the hugs. I needed it!

It sucks being stuck in a crappy job with stupid people!!!

I was thrilled when they layed me off!!!

Hang in there, maybe they'll lay you off

That would be so great! I have so much vacation (well, comp time) saved up- over 300 hours that I have to keep working to take down so I don't lose it- that I would have a nice severence. We are too busy and short handed for me to actually take a vacation to use the hours.

Just think, I would be able to spin and knit and make soap and see the chickens and horses in the daylight. Sigh.

 

[FarmerDenise]

You talking like that reminds me of how I used to feel. It also makes me really appreciate what I have now.
I may be broke and don't always know how I am going to pay bills that need paying, nor do I have health care and worry a bit about that.
But I get to get up when I choose (or rather, when I need to to take care of the critters), I don't have to get dressed for "the office" unless you count putting on my old sneakers and big old jacket over my pj's to go outside to open the henhouse door. I can eat when I want. I don't have to answer the phone. I can say I am working, when I really am just sitting in the sun, or rain, watching my critters or the garden grow.
I don't mind the work, even though it is endless and hard sometimes. Every day I appreciate not having to put up with "the wicked witch of the west supervisor", I've had one of those more than once

Here's to getting layed off

 

[kcsunshine]

to you Valmom - I know exactly where you're coming from.

I "retired" last September and started drawing S.S. I have worked for 40+ years - 28 for a large jeans manufacturer ( who sent all the work south - Thank God I was able to take early retirement from them and get a small retirement check), and 12 for a small business (electrical construction). My last boss was (I think) bi-polar. You never knew how he would react to something. He was suspicious of everyone, devious in his dealings with people - then next day, couldn't be sweeter. I stayed in a constant state of upheaval.

My days now are spent cooking great meals, making bread, making soap, lovin' my hubby and my chickens! Couldn't be better. I still have insurance from my first job (1st retirement) so I don't have those worries some people have. Now I'm just waiting for garden planting weather............

 

[rebecca100]

I am sorry.. I am a cna at a nursing home. It is a lot different, but a lot alike too it sounds. Administrators don't care about patients, they are in it for the money and seem to think that people have superpowers to get everything done in a short time with no help and then add more chores when you can't finish the chores you already have. Everyone is miserable. The nurses and aides are overworked and unhappy the patients are unhappy because they think they are being ignored and don't understand that 5 people physically cannot take care of 20 or more total care patients and still have time to take the care the other 40 or so need. So you end up with an unhappy facility that no one wants to be at. Including the admin. when the shtf because a resident's family is sueing for neglect and still the admin. never seem to learn!