Dancer,
Dentist,
Detective,
Druggest,
Ditch Digger,
Doctor,
Dishwasher,
or a Daddy.
- Sesame Street
It cracks me up how completely random the list of "D" jobs is. The fact that they sandwiched "Doctor" between "Ditch Digger" and "Dishwasher" gives me a special little twinge every time. They finish up with a dad playing with his child - which is touching except that all the other "D's" are employments so the unintended message is; you can be employed or be a daddy - they forgot the "deadbeat" qualifier.
Sorry, but whenever it get to that part I can't help thinking, "It's the middle of the day! If "Daddy" had a job he wouldn't be duct-taping letters to his shirt and spinning in circles in the park. I know, I know, this is all sounding gloomy but I am not half as gloomy as I am probably coming across. And that video was probably shot on a Saturday anyway . . .
When I was a Real Estate agent, I was basically self-employed so I made my own schedule. Often times I would take care of personal errands or chores in the middle of the work day and I would wonder, "How do 9-5'ers get all this stuff done in the evenings and weekends?" The answer: most people don't get it all done - you gotta let some stuff slide.
All that to say that I am staying busy. Job hunting half a day - yard work, errands, chores and paperwork the other half. The wife is on me to start an exercise program - When will I find the time? It's getting to the point that I won't have time for a job!
Just kidding.
So, I have fired off my resume to at least a half-dozen places. Mostly sales positions. As I mentioned before, one place I applied sells cremation services. I also applied to be a "Culligan Man" (management), and a medical equipment educational director - which actually sounds pretty cool.
So begins another week - thanks to Sesame Street I have a whole new list of jobs to consider.
When I was a Real Estate agent, I was basically self-employed so I made my own schedule. Often times I would take care of personal errands or chores in the middle of the work day and I would wonder, "How do 9-5'ers get all this stuff done in the evenings and weekends?" The answer: most people don't get it all done - you gotta let some stuff slide.
All that to say that I am staying busy. Job hunting half a day - yard work, errands, chores and paperwork the other half. The wife is on me to start an exercise program - When will I find the time? It's getting to the point that I won't have time for a job!
Just kidding.
So, I have fired off my resume to at least a half-dozen places. Mostly sales positions. As I mentioned before, one place I applied sells cremation services. I also applied to be a "Culligan Man" (management), and a medical equipment educational director - which actually sounds pretty cool.
So begins another week - thanks to Sesame Street I have a whole new list of jobs to consider.
4 comments:
Man, I'm pulling for you and the job search.
A whole new list to consider is right, and that's just for the letter D.
We've been in this boat; it's not a real fun boat. Nothing a'tall like those parties on speedboats where everybody's hair is blown back and you can hear their screeching laughter across the lake.
I just made myself sad with that last comment.
ha ha.
I was reading one of Zoralee's little golden books called "The Bunny Book," and it so reminded me of this post that I had to come back and leave another comment.
And the comment I'm leaving is as follows:
In The Bunny Book, all the family members are vying for what the baby bunny will be when it grows up. "Oh, he'll be a policeman...." says the Mother Bunny, etc. etc. It goes on and on with various professions, and all along, the baby bunny says nothing, knowing it wants to be none of these things.
So the punchline of the story is when the baby bunny reveals what he really wants to be: a father rabbit.
What the?!?
The story then tells of all the things the father rabbit will do with/for his own offspring, including giving them food to eat. I'm thinking, "And how, exactly, is the father rabbit planning to PAY for the food?"
If the implication is that the rabbit's real life work is raising his family, and that his vocation is a means to an end, they should've just stated that. But this whole fatherhood vs. job thing is really bizarre.
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