Ok, so now I am doing book reviews. A woman from San Francisco recommended the above book to me at the childbirth conference and she was right on. This is the telling of a year the author spent abroad after her messy divorce. Four months in Italy eating amazing food and learning Italian. Four months in an Ashram in India meditating and four months in Indonesia learning from a traditional medicine man.
The first few pages I felt like she was whiny and self absorbed but then I totally began to feel like I was her (maybe I was relating to the whiny and self absorbed part) but I felt like I was on a journey looking for .....wait for it.....the meaning of life.
It is a great book, hard to put down and may I say, life affirming if not a little life changing.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Monday, October 15, 2007
Employment!
Hurray! As of Friday I am employed, and better than that, I am excited about the job. It is working (1) part time for the (2)Wellness program at the (3)University doing smoking cessation (4) trainings. I have numbered the above to detail why this is the perfect thing.
1. I have worried about the strain of full time work on the kids and me at this time of huge changes. Luckily this part time pays double what the full time Edward Jones paid so I will be making the same with them at 20 as I would have been for 40! Miraculous!
2. I love health education!
3. The University if possibly the best employer in town and everybody says once you are in you can move around and up fairly easily.
4. I love teaching and I will get a chance to work with every department on campus (rather than shuffling papers by myself.)
Thank you for all your good wishes, I feel like I am riding on the energy of friends and family and it is wonderful.
1. I have worried about the strain of full time work on the kids and me at this time of huge changes. Luckily this part time pays double what the full time Edward Jones paid so I will be making the same with them at 20 as I would have been for 40! Miraculous!
2. I love health education!
3. The University if possibly the best employer in town and everybody says once you are in you can move around and up fairly easily.
4. I love teaching and I will get a chance to work with every department on campus (rather than shuffling papers by myself.)
Thank you for all your good wishes, I feel like I am riding on the energy of friends and family and it is wonderful.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
so here we are
I went to Chicago last month for a childbirth educator conference. My good friend Sylvia met me there and we had a great time. I have not laughed so much in forever and it felt good to know I could.
I realized that I love birth, birth education etc and that I shouldn't throw the baby out with the bath water. In my rush to get a "job" job, I was turning my back on something I enjoy and am good at. While I was there I did their new certification to train trainers. In other words, teach others to be child birth educators. With that I can set up my own trainings anywhere I want, charge what I can etc. I am hopeful that this will be a way to keep my foot in the birth world and have a good supplement to my income.
I had an interview that went very well with an Edward Jones office to be an assistant to the financial advisor. It really doesn't seem like me, though I know I could do the job. I will take it happily if nothing else appears but working alone with papers doesn't really seem to be using my talents. Beggars can't be... you know the rest, but I really am planning on not being a beggar much longer.
I realized that I love birth, birth education etc and that I shouldn't throw the baby out with the bath water. In my rush to get a "job" job, I was turning my back on something I enjoy and am good at. While I was there I did their new certification to train trainers. In other words, teach others to be child birth educators. With that I can set up my own trainings anywhere I want, charge what I can etc. I am hopeful that this will be a way to keep my foot in the birth world and have a good supplement to my income.
I had an interview that went very well with an Edward Jones office to be an assistant to the financial advisor. It really doesn't seem like me, though I know I could do the job. I will take it happily if nothing else appears but working alone with papers doesn't really seem to be using my talents. Beggars can't be... you know the rest, but I really am planning on not being a beggar much longer.
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