Starve.Org White Noise Usenet Archive: "Re: RE: RE: Why I LOVE my job!!!"

Leah raises a very valid point. There is much to love about Naturalizers. However, I am a woman of many hats, so I have multiple jobs to love.

WHY I LOVE MACY*S:
1. The three hour round-trip commute in rush hour allows for a lot of "me" time (meaning time for me to get lost, road rage, two flat tires, etc)
2. I buy amazing shoes that I will never get to wear.
3. Business Professional. Enough said.
4. Our fax machine routinely jams, I get an obscene amount of memos and work in a cubicle. Sometimes it's so reminiscent of Office Space it's not even funny.
5. I GET PAID EVERY OTHER FRIDAY!

WHY I LOVE BEING A UW STUDENT:
1. Playboy Magazine consistently votes us the Number 1 Party School. We also top Princeton Review's List for campus with the most beer.
2. My earliest class is 11:00 am.
3. All university buildings have wireless internet. A power lecture goes by much faster when I can play Snood on my laptop for 75 minutes.
4. State Street sees over 100,000 Halloween goers each year. Last year I was Kevin Federline and I'm currently searching for a costume to top last year's. Possibly Flava Flav? (I am very receptive to suggestions)
5. I AM BROKE!

So there you have it.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Pleiss, Leah C" <LCPLEISS@CSBSJU.EDU>
Date: Friday, October 5, 2007 2:01 pm
Subject: RE: RE: Why I LOVE my job!!!
To: ChanChapter@googlegroups.com, ChanChapter@googlegroups.com

> Erin...
> What's not to love about naturalizers? I would think that that in
> itself is enough!

> ________________________________

> From: ChanChapter@googlegroups.com on behalf of ERIN O'KEEFE
> Sent: Fri 10/5/2007 12:14 PM
> To: ChanChapter@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: RE: Why I LOVE my job!!!

> All I've got is I get paid every other Friday. So I'm going to keep
> thinking too . . .

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mark Chan <markenstein60@yahoo.com>
> Date: Friday, October 5, 2007 11:00 am
> Subject: RE: Why I LOVE my job!!!
> To: ChanChapter@googlegroups.com, chanchapter@googlegroups.com

> > I'm still thinking,....

> > Sarah O'Keefe <sarahok3@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage
> {
> > FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } I love my job as a "house
> > fixer-upper" because...

> > *I don't have to put on makeup/nice clothes to go to work.
> > *If I stay up late the night before, I can sleep in the next morning.
> > *I can see what a difference I've made each day.
> > *I can choose to work outside on nice days or inside if the weather
> is
> > crummy.
> > *I get to work with my wonderful husband everyday (and believe it or
> > not, we have not strangled each other yet!)

> > I can't wait to fix up a place of my own someday!

> > ~Sarah~

> > > Subject: RE: Why I LOVE my job!!!
> > > Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 09:01:11 -0500
> > > From: LCPLEISS@CSBSJU.EDU
> > > To: ChanChapter@googlegroups.com; ChanChapter@googlegroups.com

> > > Why I love my job...

> > > I get to clean up after someone has been sick, I can poke people
> > with needles, I can stick all kinds of things into body orficies and
> > not get into trouble! Like enemas, suppositorys, catheters, nasal
> > spray, inhalers, and otoscopes (there I think I covered all of the
> > holes in our body!) I can do a little T.C. (for those ladies in the
> > family you know what I am referring to...particularly Suz)! I don't
> > have to worry about picking out what to wear each morning because I
> > always have to wear scrubs! I get to wake up for a shift change at
> > 6:00am, and stay on my feet for 12 hours long...sometimes even taking
> > breaks and eating lunch while standing! I can talk about body
> > excretions when I am eating and not have it phase me in the slightest
> > (but when the conversation changes to dentures, gallstones, or
> > crepitus I instantly gag).

> > > But the very best part of my job is when I was working for four
> > weeks with a woman who speaks Xhosa after four weeks on the last visit
> > you say goodbye, she grabbed my hands and holds them and kisses my
> > hands with tears in her and just nods and smiles. Or the diabetic
> > woman who I taught about footcare and when I went back to her house
> > the next week she wears sandals to show me how she has examined her
> > feet, and painted her toes and has been doing the checks every
> > morning. Or when I was on the oncology unit and the woman I was caring
> > for is so excited for her sister to call the room just so she could
> > introduce me to her over the phone. But I think that the most
> > rewarding experience was when I was on the pediatric unit and I was
> > caring for a two year old girl who had an occluded IV ithat was going
> > into her foot, everytime I went into the room to check the IV she
> > would throw a fit when I would reach for her foot. Throughout the
> > morning I would ask her about her stuffed
> > animals in her room and ask her about her pajamas she was wearing.
> > Finally, after being with her for the morning shift I went into her
> > room to do the last assessment and when I reached for her foot to
> > check for infiltration she didn't even flinch, she just sat there as
> I
> > did the assesment. When the assessment was over, her mom looked at me
> > and said, "I can't believe that you were able to do that. For the
> > three days that she has been in the hospital she hasn't let anyone
> > touch her foot."

> > > So those are just a few stories of why I love my job and it's only
> > just begining! Good topic of discussion Kathy!

> > > Love to all!
> > > :) Leah

> > > ________________________________

> > > From: ChanChapter@googlegroups.com on behalf of Molly OKeefe
> > > Sent: Tue 10/2/2007 7:34 PM
> > > To: ChanChapter@googlegroups.com
> > > Subject: Re: Why I LOVE my job!!!

> > > So many reasons...

> > > I have funny, heart-warming, and cute stories every day. I am the
> > CEO of my classroom. I get over 20 valentines each year. I can quiet
> a
> > room just by clapping my hands. I always get to Show and Tell, and my
> > audience usually thinks whatever I have to say is interesting. I get
> > to dance, act, create, sing, rap, jump rope, draw, and laugh on a
> > daily basis.

> > > This shouldn't sound too boastful, because I could also cite many
> > reasons why I dis-LOVE my job as well...

> > > "O'Keefe, Kathy" <kokeefe@hastings.k12.mn.us> wrote:

> > > Hi everyone,

> > > I am going to start this new topic. Everyone please respond to the
> > open ended question, WHY I LOVE MY JOB. I hope it will cause everyone
> > to stop and reflect on how good life really is.

> > > Today at school, I was teaching a math lesson to two third graders.
> > One of the students has a seizure disorder that is currently
> > uncontrolled and therefore she misses much of what goes on around her.
> > The other student is a "typical" (if there is such a thing)
> > developmentally delayed little girl. We were working on a lesson with
> > coins and solving addition and subtraction problems using a tens base.
> > I know that this is getting very technical so anyway, the first
> > student suddenly had this AHA moment and I said, "Your light bulb has
> > gone off, so you may go over to the other table and work by yourself".
> > When I turned back to the second student, she was sitting with her
> > elbows on the table and her chin in her hands looking so forlorn. She
> > said, "Mrs. O'Keefe, my light bulb is broken". Through my laughter I
> > said, "It isn't broken honey, just a little dim. I will help you fix
> > your light bulb." She finally did get the concept and was very proud
> > to have her light bulb working again.

> > > I hope that you can see the humor in this little story and that it
> > isn't just one of those YOU HAD TO HAVE BEEN THERE stories. It seemed
> > like everything the kids said to me today really tickled my
> > funnybone---but this was the best by far.

> > > Can't wait to hear everyone's reflections.

> > > Remember, even the unemployed and retired have a job to do. No one
> > is exempt from this activity.

> > > Love you all,
> > > Kathy

> > > ________________________________

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