| | Are we all pushed to work more?Page 1 of 1 | Sitting home as the weather delivered the teachers of northern Ohio a snow day. I know for many women the day will be spent caring for their children that are also sitting at home loving life. Noy much of a snow day for this group of teacher moms.
Others like myself lack family commitments yet we are working on a project, in my case writing my research paper. Seems like I live in this chair anymore.
Are most people in the same situation? Always working on a large project to push yourself to the next level in your profession? In my case a masters degree in special education. | |
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TJ7
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| Are we all pushed to work more?
Posted: 2/26/2010 7:25:14 AM | ^^^Climbs.........getting your masters in special education is so awesome - I have a high school friend who is a professor at a college in NY for the special education. I think it's wonderful.
I used to push myself unbelievably........I'm a mom of 4, worked full-time, was in charge of approx 24 community and travel girls softball teams and coached (depending on the year) 1 or 2 softball teams for my daughters, and continued running the other 2 to their events. I retired from all the softball duties 1-1/2 years ago (after 15 years). As I look back, I don't know how I did it all and still kept a reasonable level of sanity (LOL).
Now for the first time in my life, I'm unemployed but yet working out daily and thinking about going back to school - I used to constantly be on the go and now I'm bored.
Besides - to constantly be striving to 'improve' yourself is a major plus - and I feel that it keeps you sharp for the older years. | |
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| Are we all pushed to work more?
Posted: 2/26/2010 7:56:39 AM | ^^^TJ, like you, I look back on my life and I wonder how did I ever do all that? But when it was needed, I seemed to have it. I recently was driving my daughter to her work an hour away before I went to work myself. Then in the evening, I would drive an hour to go pick her up. She now has a place near work and I don't have to do it. But now that it is over, I'm wondering how in the world I ever did that.
I think when there is something "out there" that we know we have to reach for, we get an anointing of ability to do that. When it is no longer there, that ability goes away, and we can't imagine doing it.
Now if we could only select those things "out there" to reach for that would be of benefit to us rather than always to others, we would be living dynamos for personal progress. It's just getting around thinking that we are being selfish when we do it for ourselves after being a Mom for so long. | |
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| Are we all pushed to work more?
Posted: 2/26/2010 11:10:17 AM | ^^^^Now if we could only select those things "out there" to reach for that would be of benefit to us rather than always to others, we would be living dynamos for personal progress. It's just getting around thinking that we are being selfish when we do it for ourselves after being a Mom for so long. ^^^^
It is easier to help others as other individuals make clear what they want and need, the choice is made for us where as in reflecting upon ourselves we have to choose for ourselves. For many it is much more difficult choosing for ourselves as we have to live with the person making the choice, namely ourself.
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| Are we all pushed to work more?
Posted: 2/27/2010 9:31:56 PM | Yes, climbs, that's it exactly. Others do make it clear what they want and need. So we rise to the occasion.
I'm thinking, too, that while the title of this thread is "are we pushed to work more," it might also be called "are we pushed to need more?" Then there is confusion between what we really want and what we really need. So there's a disconnect in us because we can't easily decide if we actually need something or merely want it and then should expend the energy and expense of reaching out for it.
More and more technology keeps on coming. Do we really need that? And after we get it, we are pushed to arrange our lives around it. I have become so dependent upon my iPhone, for example, but it really isn't a need. I functioned quite well without it, but now I'm joined to the hip with this little box that I feel quite panicky about if I go out of the house without it. | |
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