Back to Work Reality Check

I have been back to work about three weeks. I understand that it may not call for a reality check and no, I have not been out of work for years. It has only been about two months. I have finally found another WAH job that I love and it is certainly keeping me at 40 hours a week.

I fail to remember that working at a job you love does take up a great deal of your time and you no longer have the luxury of doing things like you did when you were not working. I feel that people should work at least a little bit. It keeps idle minds from getting up to no good and it keeps you focused and goal oriented. I remember when I was not working it was simply a chore to get up and actually clean the house! Yes! Now that I am working. I still have a momentum built up when I get off work and am able to at least straighten up and get dinner and laundry started.

Of course I sound like a career stay at home mom. I am!  Only that I have a forty hour a week (getting a paycheck) kind of job and that is just like getting out of the house and going to the office everyday. Only I do it in my fuzzy slippers!

Working from home is a lifestyle and not many people are prepared for it because it takes dedication and some changes in your current lifestyle to ensure that it is successful. Many people believe (erroneously) that they can work from home and still have the daily interruptions of the dog barking, their children constantly in their face, or even be able to get up and run to the door should someone ring the bell.  That could not be farther from the truth.  You have to have the gumption to sit at your desk your entire shift and work.  That is what they pay you to do. Especially these companies that pay you by the hour and they take out taxes like a regular paycheck.  They pay you to work and you need to be at your desk working.  Whether it be chat support, phones, or letter writing, you are paid for the time you are working and it is a real job.

Sure, there are draw backs.  Nobody wants to have the highlight of their day to be the point when they get out of the house to go to the store for a soda run.  That is no fun.  There is a delicate balance that needs to be considered and it takes some practice to put it all into play.  While the opportunity for more hours is endless, you do need to make time for yourself and your family similarly to how you would do at a traditional office job.  It just takes a bit more effort than normal.  Also, don't fall into the staying in your jammies all day either. That is a bad habit and not healthy!

So, while WAH is not for everyone, it is a great opportunity to do something that is beneficial to American society and it brings the much needed customer service jobs back home. Just don't mess it up or the great companies that provide this service for their clients and employees will go by the wayside much like traditional jobs have been sent to South America,  India, and the Phillipenes.  Keep these jobs at home.  Literally!

The dresser never had a chance against rage.

After experiencing one of the most mind blowing weeks I have had in a long time, I have to sit down and reflect upon how I am going to pick up the pieces of my shattered demeanor and continue on.  I have just experienced a nightmare involving three of my children and various accusations and other anomalies to our lives.  While they range from the grave to the trivial, it has thrown a great wrench into our lives and now it is up to me, their mother, to pick up the mess and continue on.

Due to the fact that I am unable to get some me time that is quite often noted as necessary by scholarly sources that give advise on parenting, I am unable to find ways to properly proceed in letting off a little steam.  However, there has been this dresser that I keep failing to put on the side of the road come garbage day and it is driving me nuts that it is broken, unusable, and still in the room it has always been in. Upon the notification of the event that caused a great deal of chaos for our youngest child, I could not stand it anymore and the dresser had to be done away with.

We have had this aluminum baseball bat that someone left at our home some years back.  There is not one person in my home that has any interest in baseball other than a passing fancy.  Boy, did I ever give that bat its worth today.  I took that grotesque dresser to our back yard and took that baseball bat to it and totally shattered it and took out my frustrations accordingly.  I must say it felt pretty good. I even enjoyed the cleanup afterwards.  Quite nice.  It was such a rush that I even had to vomit in the corner of the yard when I was done with the demolition.  With stress spent, energy caput, and bat bent all to hell, I began to clean up and felt much much better about the whole thing.

I happen to think that everytimethere is a piece of furniture that is no longer useful in my home, I will beat the crap out of it to relieve some stress.  As I no longer have access to a gym, this worked just fine for me. Now I will be able to take the next steps to rectify this mess that my family has found itself in.

Remember when you see movies where the character is punching the crap out of a punching bag? I imagine this to be the same. Simply ghetto style.   What types of unconventional stress releivers do you do?

Decay begins at the foundations.

When I first began this blog, it was about social decay and my experiences living in povertial america.  A recent roadtrip to pick up my mother reminded me of the very basis of those early writings and the dismay I have at our world today.

When we travel, we tend to drive off the beaten path.  This is to enjoy the beautiful country side and to allow us to become enthralled in the conversations we have with one another while on the road.  Too often, I will see delapidaited buildings in deserted farmland or the promise of a shiny new apartment complex or some industrial building for future benefit of society. I say rubbish to all of that.

This very farmland and the old buildings that occupy such are the very foundation upon which white america built this country.  So far wrapped up in greed we are that we fail to remember where we came from and simply contrive to chew up the resources around us to later spit out like long forgotten garbage.  What in the sam hill have we done?  So many times I hear about how the polar ice caps are melting and the Co2 levels are increasing and all those lovely pictures of children rummaging through mountains of garbage for a mere two cents to eat with. Bleach.

Have we failed to realize that, currently, this is the only planet we have and if we fail to respect that and all that it has afforded us we fail as a species?  Mother nature will find a way.  She sees what we as human beings have done to her lovely cradle she has provided and will one day seek vengance on the very ground all of us tred upon.  Have we failed to understand that we did not learn from the mistakes of the coal powered trains and the hole they sent up to the ozone layer?  Oh, sure, lets put up a few thousand coal powered electricity plants because they are "cleaner!"  CLEANER???????  What in the flip is cleaner about something that allows for the vital oxygen we need to breathe to escape our planet forever!  No wonder we are a society of asthmatics and disease ridden souls.  We are slowly killing ourselves and our children. 

Ugh.  Ok, I have become overy ticked and cannot finish this.  I will be back with more later.  Just had to vent a little.