Life at an 8:30pm-5:30pm job...

Friday, April 18, 2008

Life at an 8:30pm-5:30pm job...
So, having a fix schedule feels different, weird and good at the same time. It's quite different from the lifestyle that I am used to since I often got to enjoy the sun a lot and never felt tired when I would go exercise. Now, I just feel bad when I go outside for lunch since I am often wishing I were at the park playing chess and being a bum. Of course, since I do teach being a bum is really not correct to say and since I am often learning and expanding my knowledge, and helping out the bums lolol I guess I cannot really call myself a bum. However, just being free is such a good thing. My dad is very much correct when he says that "life under a clock is like the life of a slave" 5 min can feel like an hour!!! But, how does one gain independence if not through a slow death of working and saving? Hmmm....When I have figured this piece out I will write more about it.
I have decided to take a certification class in Medical assistance right along with my job. The certification class is important to me because I guess it gives me a certificate in knowledge that I have acquired through some training in my past and of course some new knowledge of billing etc...although, I am sure this all could have been learned with experience. However, since there are slow learners in the world if some school gives it t me just proves me to be more qualified...lolol funny how humans find numerous ways to trick people and make money. Anyways, I do not care because as long as I am learning and my basic needs are met I am quite fine and content.
My new job is pretty cool and I do like the people around me. It's a shame that it is not higher pay however I cannot complain yet since money has never been of lust to me. Teaching will make up for anything that this job cannot make up for. Although, I do want less hours maybe something along the lines of 8:30am-4:30 instead of the dreadful 5:30 hehe....It rocks to at least be able to make this decision and not have to stay that extra hour for more money. I remember my ex always criticizing me for taking a lunch because he says that them paying me not to take lunch is cool and I get extra hours. However, who cares? One hour of your life in freedom is way more important than one hour of your life at a desk or in whatever it is you are doing. I will say the only time one hour is meaningful is when you are helping someone. For example, teachers who are good will enjoy those extra minutes with their students or people who are in the field of counseling and enjoy helping people. Of course sometimes those same people get stuck with those who take advantage of them and chew their ears off but then again that's another story to write about in some other entry.
Anyways, I am quite content in my life at the moment and I feel great. I wish I could do more for my family but for now I guess God has willed it this way and in any case the biggest lesson I've had to learn to apply is that to a long mile journey the only way to begin is by taking the first step.
"Through him all things will be given and all things are possible"...amen...