I don't DO anything any longer least as far as rl *employment* goes, cuz hubby and I are, in theory *retired.* For now I play frisbee with my shelties when it is not so hot out in the yard, and I am tryin to get every room in the house repainted while I still can climb ladders and do it all.
My gameplan as a younger person was to get my degree in Human Psychology couple with Art. You see I had planned to become either a social worker, or clinical psychologist for trouble kids. Oft a child whom is afraid or can not express the hell their lives have become for whatever reasons, in therapy may draw pictures to try to express themselves. Thus the combo art with human psych. Of course ya have to take it all with a grain of salt and surely be SURE you may be interpreting it all correctly too. Your main goal or hope is to try to help the child preschooler or teen and to help their family so that some things, do not get repeated when the child grows up and then does the same hurtful things done to or at them, to their OWN kids too.
Then dealin with the govt. or state bureaucracy is also or can be a nightmare or even wrong in some instances. But ya hope to graduate and to be helpful to even one kid and their family, if ya can. But right before I was to graduate my campus went insane. Hard to study with too huge protests, other dorks burning the ROTC building, and the state and govt of USA calling out the National Guardsmen, and you are about 8 wks before graduating tryin to study for your finals, when all hell breaks lose.
Self preservation took over, and even to this day the song created about my university and the times back then, still remains some odd Anthem, for my life changing entirely. Even to this day, years later every May, I remember what happend back then there. I will also admit Pychologically I am not fond of MOB MENTALITY in huge protests and will not be in huge crowds of protesters ever again EVER...cuz in due time order must be restored, when buildings get torched or order becomes chaos, and be it police or National Guardsmen something HAS to be done to restore order and law again..and if it goes that bizarre someone may end up shot or tear gased and personally I never wish to be in or around that sort of situations, EVER again, in my life.
That song was "Four Dead in Ohio" my campus was Kent State, I was supposed to graduate that May of 1970. I split, self preservation took over.
I went away, leaving Ohio, Kent State and my impending degree behind me, and entered a travel industry school.
I was hired then to work as a res. agent, for the then large airline, called Braniff International Airlines in Dallas, Texas. I met this fellow in that airline travel industry school whom kept buggin me to marry him.
After two and a half years of that, I finally said yes and married the guy.
*still married to him* But that move, leaving Ohio and Kent State and my degree behind, forever changed my life. I worked for that airline married a guy working for another airline as a supervisor and international ticket agent. I worked next as a travel agent *back in Ohio* some time later. Got to tour Europe, Morocco and beyond.
We still get our *non rev* space available for life flying privledges...which is why 'now' I think to let playing UO go for a rest, and just travel all over 'again', while I am still alive and kickin, first to visit our 3 grown kids, then wherever the mood may take me..non rev space available.
I am used to ad libbing regarding my flyin anywhere after all these years. LOL
I have worked years also in customer service, and nuttier years when I got jobs in dept. stores as Christmas help and they kept me there lots longer in places like Macy's Walmarts, Kmarts etc. even got to add pillows to my body one year and got to dress up to play Mrs. Santa Clause in one of those stores one Dec. lol I was amused.
[I like doing nuttier humorous things] like the time I got to dress up as a vampire for a huge city run halloween haunted house..no pay but was fun for 3 wks. long. LOL
As for helpin troubled kids and teens I have worked in Alateen, kids with drinking problems or their parents, I have worked with Youth for Understanding as one whom helps people and teens globe wide in their 1 yr. stints as foreign exchange students here and abroad to help in a peculiar way for folks to get to know or fathom folks in other nations and life beliefs, customs etc. .
And did my stints as soccer coach, girlscouts boyscouts, football mom cheer leader mom, the ONLY mom that brung cookies to schools for the kids in classes, for holidays when schools allowed it, high school band mom and sunday school teacher paid even, for kids 2-5 yrs of age and 15-16 yr olds. So in my own non degreed way I have been there to help some few troubled kids along the way, and raised up 3 that each turned out to become productive grown adult citizens in their own right. Raising ye own is perhaps the hugest challenge we ever encounter and to have them turn out Aok even despite our own & their own faults too...is awesome if not some miracle.
Ya didn't expect me to be BRIEF did ya ? LOL
Now I have entertained the idea to be a Walmart door greeter for employment in me old age but was told I have to WAIT till I hit 65 for that job. I am not there yet. lol
And I have thought to apply to be the masot for the RiverKings, local memphis^ desoto county miss., hockey games here...the idea to don a fat penquin outfit, to act silly, to get folks cheering is highly entertaining...cept having to be at ALL the games for the entire hockey season, is a bit more than I would 'want' to work.
And with new web thingies, perhaps I will just become a DJ on my own radio station on the web soon as I maybe figure out how to DO that...so I can play only the GOOD STUFF, for us oldfolks to listen to, like old school heavy metal rock, and not this bs the radios play that they call music today !! lol
