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Tidbits and essays that I have salvaged from the Chaos of my mind. |
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Created: December 3rd, 2008 at 10:11pm
Modified: August 15th, 2010 at 11:10pm
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I have teenage daughters that don't listen to me. So I am using this as a depository for some of the advice and insights that I wish I could give them. Maybe someday they will be interested in hearing about the mistakes that I've already made and be willing to listen so that they can avoid making the same ones. I'll try and up date weekly. More than that might be pushing it.
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December 17, 2008 at 7:18pm
December 17, 2008 at 7:18pm
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I have had a fulltime job since I was sixteen. Other than a few months of unemployment I have always had at least one job and a good part of the time, two. I have an issue with the young people of today. I have seen too many get fired for the sole reason that they can’t seem to show up. And these children, cause they are children, are in menial brainless positions. The only thing that their job requires is that they be there and they can’t even do that dependably. Most jobs today are that way. All a person has to do is show up and put in a mediocre amount of effort and they can have a job for life. That is pathetic. And to think that these children can’t even be counted on to show up. No wonder the rest of the world thinks we’re all lazy Americans. I think for the most part, we are becoming the lazy Americans. At least the younger generation is. Where is the American work ethic?
If there is one piece of advice that I could give a new employee, it would be “show up.” That is the least you can do and still keep your job. It doesn’t matter how good you are if you can’t be depended on to be there. There are thousands of slow and mediocre workers out there that have been at the same job for years for the sole reason that they always show up. Personally, I hate missing a day of work. It’s not that I love my job that much, I just hate to waste a day off being sick. I might as well be sick at work. At least I’m being paid. I want to save my vacation days for important things, like uhh…. Vacation. If I have the s***s, I can have the s***s at work. So, for all you lazy punks out there: Show up. It is the most brainless, talentless and lazy thing you can do to get ahead.
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December 3, 2008 at 10:24pm
December 3, 2008 at 10:24pm
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| Someone once said that “Life is a Highway.” (That was Tom Cochran for you trivia buffs.) And I tend to agree. However, I don’t think that is all there is to it. I think that life, with a little ‘L’, is a highway. That is the act of living, breathing, and existing. But “Life” with a Capital ‘L’ is more about the rest areas, attractions, and accidents along that highway. Anyone that has traveled any great distance on a highway will agree that after a while it all looks the same. Once you’ve seen one telephone pole or billboard or dead raccoon, they pretty much all look alike. But you remember the unique scenery, the strange people and accidents on the trip. Life is the same way. You can’t remember every day you went to work or to the store or filled your gas tank. But you can remember the weddings, vacations and emergency room visits. Those are our attractions on the Highway of Life. Those are the things that turn our living into a Life. Some people say to “stop and smell the roses”, but in this fast paced world we live in, sometimes the best we can do is to stick our head out the window and catch a whiff as we sail by. We all need to remember to open our eyes and minds a little more when we do get to a rest area on our Highway. And maybe even snap a few pictures, because we may not be back this way again. |
December 3, 2008 at 10:23pm
December 3, 2008 at 10:23pm
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| This is a journal or Blog that is made up of pieces of advice that I would like to be able to give my daughters. They are not here to listen to me and also at the age where they already know everything anyway. However, I would like to present these little tidbits for future reference, for the time when they no longer know everything and would maybe appreciate a little insight. I think of these as Advance Warnings from further up the road of life; postings from someone that has already seen the twists and turns ahead and would like to maybe save someone from making the same mistakes or expecting life to be different than it is. I don’t think I would have traveled a different road if I had been given the same advanced notices, but I do think I would have been paying better attention to the scenery along the way. |
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