I'm beyond grateful for my continued good health.
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I'm beyond grateful for my continued good health.
I'm grateful to have been offered a second interview for a job in social services. It's amazing how much our self worth can be tied up in our "employability".
and i'm grateful you got a second interview too :).....h..o..p..e works
I know I always tell people that you can't wrap up your whole identity in your work, but I am very guilty of this. I remember when I first moved back to MA, sitting at my kitchen table, when some ad came on TV about teachers. I didn't have a job yet, and I just put my head down and cried. And, it did not work out so well for me when I tried to quit working a few years ago. Tell me a little more about the job.
That's great, Pax. Crossing fingers and toes for you!
Thanks everyone!
Crankin - it's a work release program for current felons in a step down unit, they are in the last two years of their sentences. I would be overseeing 28 men, teaching them how to get jobs, write resumes, interview, and then follow up while they're working.
This is excellent, congratulations!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pax
That sounds really interesting, Pax. Good luck!
Pax, that's great! Good luck!!!
It would be nice to make a difference in someone's life again, it's been a while.
The identity from the uniqueness of our personality, our character and what we value is to me more important in defining us and our self worth than the job we have. Now that job description also sounds like it could help in those areas in a positive way…..hoping you’re hired and find out it does.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pax
...and i'd be grateful for that happening for you!!!!!
Pax, that is hugely important work! I did a report a few years ago for a non-profit on programs across the country that focus on helping ex-inmates aim for living wage work. That is really awesome.
This sounds like you can really make a difference! I have a family member that had been repeatedly incarcerated - mostly for minor drinking offenses (public intoxication, fighting, etc.) but it happened enough he was considered a habitual offender. After several years, I think it was clear that he thought jail was easier and he had no idea how to transition to real life, and getting a job and meaningful employment was obviously harder to do. I wonder how much recidivism rates are linked to the fact that felons don't know how to transition back to normal life. What meaningful work! Good luck with your second interview.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pax
Average recidivism rates in the US are 65-75% in the first 3-5 years, this program has a 6% rate, so it appears to be very successful. In the past I've developed these programs for agencies where I've worked, if they are done well, they can make a huge difference.
Sounds like you are a great fit for the job. Really hoping for you! Definitely important, meaningful work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pax
I am grateful that the sun came out for a little while this afternoon. Also that the impending super-cold weather is expected to last less than a week, and that it's not expected to be beyond-ridiculous-cold like we had last winter.
I'm grateful that the door seems to be cracking open for me here in Florida. Got an academic library interview, I'm so excited to get an interview in my field.
Awesome, Pax!
Yay Pax!
Very good to read this Pax!
I am grateful that the days are getting a little longer!
Ditto this! The sun hit me in the eye as it was setting today and I realized it was in a whole new place in the patio door.Quote:
Originally Posted by Catrin
Me too! I am grateful that perhaps winter is mostly behind us here in Florida. And that the wind has died down after the past few days of bluster.
Good lord, yes. My poor honey felt like she was going to blown off the bridge on her run/walk yesterday, not sure how Oak is managing it since she runs the higher bridge!Quote:
Originally Posted by emily_in_nc
So grateful for the sunshine and the nice bag girl at the grocery store, she is always so pleasant.
Ha! There's a particular way I wind my visor around my wrist in a figure-8 at the bottom of the bridge, so I can carry it effortlessly and then put it back on when I'm past the danger of it blowing off. :DQuote:
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I'm grateful for my allergy shots. I can watch those huge clouds of cedar pollen blow down the alley and still function as a human being.
I’m grateful for the moments of happiness that allow me to soak in the beauty of life…...
I am thankful that the sun is shining and taking the edge off this very cold day.
One month to Daylight Saving Time.
I’m grateful to be able to work in the high desert for the next 8 days and also get some good riding and hiking in.
desert riding/hiking always gives me a feeling of the freeing of my mind and my soul’s detoxification within its quiet peace and beauty
I am grateful that our outing today in our motorhome went smoothly (stopped at Lowes for a couple things and filled up at a gas station, exercised the generator and other systems, plus the tires, after sitting in the campground for a month). I feel more confident in DH's driving this beast once we hit the road to head north next month!
I'm grateful for the smile that a Kentucky Lawmaker gave me when I read about her proposed bill to "protect family values." I'm only sad that the sarcasm will likely go right over the head of the people to whom it is directed.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/kentucky...h-viagra-bill/
I'm grateful for the advice and support of my TE sisters, and my own awareness of my state of recovery, in deciding to take it easy last week. Feeling much better.
Grateful for the great horned owl hooting outside my window yesterday morning. Such a gentle sound from such a powerful bird.
You make me smile, Oak.
I'm grateful for finally feeling a little bit at home here in FL, feeling hope about the future, and just being happy in general these days.
Happiness is good. :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pax
I too am grateful for feeling much happier than I have in months. Mexico was a fun place to visit, maybe even a good place to live one day, but not in Playa del Carmen and not now. Just happy to be living in our motorhome, in Florida, getting lots of good bike rides in, cooking fun food, and planning/doing projects, which we thrive on.
I'm grateful that the heavy rain that will fall here tomorrow is not snow and ice.
Also grateful for the great deal I got on the 6-cd set of Leonard Bernstein conducting all nine of Beethhoven's symphonies plus some overtures and concertos.
Enjoy the listening!!!!
Btw…Furtwangler, Vienna Philharmonic, Beethoven Symphony No 3……vinyl, tubed amplifier, speakers with amplified bass…..takes me to a mountain top and I see a new continent :)
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and thank you for making me think about listening to it :).....i'm happy to be home this morning
NY, your comment reminded me that I guess I should be grateful to my mom for making me sit and watch every single one of those Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts in the early 60s. No one in my family was musical (though my dad did have a short lived avocation as a drummer with Geoge Wein, the founder of the Newport Jazz Festival) and I never went to Symphony Hall in Boston, as a kid. But, watching those shows got me interested in classical music. Years later, when I moved to Miami in HS, one of my teachers used to take a bunch of us to see the Miami Philharmonic Orchestra monthly. We got cheap student seats, I would get dressed up (granny dresses!) and enjoy the teeny bit of culture in that cultural desert, in 1970-71.
I don't suppose Doug Burris was one of your teachers, Crankin?? Not sure when he started in Miami. He just passed away. I didn't know him, but a friend of mine here had been a colleague and remained friends with him.
I'm partial to von Karajan, myself. But I'm just grateful for Beethoven. And Liszt.
No, he wasn't. After spending the last 8 weeks of 10th grade at a public school of 4,000 kids, I went to a teeny private school, where I had 10 kids in my graduating class. It wasn't the most selective school (too late to apply to that one, and besides could you see me at "The Everglades School for Girls?"), but we had great teachers. Most were going to grad school at night.
"Everglades School for Girls" :D :D ... "and Wayward Alligators"
Ha, ha. It's now Everglades-Ransom School, which was the matching, selective boys' school. The kid who lived down the street from me in Newton, moved to Miami (same area) just a few months before I did. Obviously, his parents knew the deadline for applying, because he went to Ransom. My issue with the public school, besides the sheer size and racist students, was the fact when I went to register for classes, they did not put me in the appropriate levels. I knew what I was in at Newton South was pretty much like their advanced or honors levels, but no, they put me in basic college prep, and it was for morons. The only class that I belonged in that level for was math. It was a very quick lesson in the differing quality of education from state to state.
I'm thankful that the storms didn't cause damage to my home or my immediate area, and that the threat of severe weather is past. I'm also thankful that I can no stress about my final on Friday - I need a 32 to pass the block (pass-fail curriculum). So - I can focus on learning, and then start packing for Portland. I'm also thankful that DH and I are finally headed on a vacation together.