MONDAY, MAY 20, 2024 - EMPLOYMENT

 MONDAY, MAY 20, 2024 - EMPLOYMENT????

I’ve pretty much always had a job.  In the past eight years, I have been working part-time.  

I like working.  

Since I officially retired and took Social Security at age 69, I’ve worked at:

Kohl’s Department Store - Holiday Season 2016

St. Dominic Savio - substitute teaching - spring 2017

Coventry Homes - substitute sales rep - spring 2017

Tutoring - 2017 to 2020

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University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley - online teacher - 2018

Southwestern University - statistic teacher - fall 2019

Election Clerk - Williamson Country - 2020, 2022

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Substitute Teacher - Georgetown Schools - spring2021

Wesleyan Homes - September 2021 to September 2023 

Independent Consultant for Wesleyan Homes - September 2023 to present

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I don’t like to watch television, read books, or listen to audiobooks. I have other options to keep me busy, like writing this daily blog, my weekly bridge blog, playing tuba, bridge, and granny basketball.

However, somehow, my name is on LinkedIn, and I am an active job seeker.

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My current part-time job will end in the next few months. I’ve been with a senior lady for 2.75 years, and she is slowly dying. (I have appreciated my time with her.)  

My bias is that if I stay home all day, I will be like a flower without water—I will wilt and die. I need a reason to get up in the morning. <grin>.

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I’m not sure what I want to do.  I like being with Trudy (my current “job”).  Should I stay working with seniors and in senior homes (assisted living, nursing homes)? 

Right now, I visit Trudy four evenings a week and help her eat dinner (that is, I feed her).  It’s nice.  I am paying my sister back for her time with my parents.  It has been flexible as I work around concerts and other events. 

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Okay, I’m a dilettant.  A dilettant is: “a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.”

I’m an educator.  I want to educate.  I’m a lover!!  I want to preach and live “Love Wins.”  

There are jobs that I don’t want to do. Lifting and carrying things doesn’t fit me at 76.

And (believe it or not), I don’t want to volunteer.  I want to get paid.  It doesn’t have to be much.  It is my “gas money,” my “take Mary to lunch money,” and my “mad money.”  There is a long story here - but it goes back to having students take internships - and I didn’t like them taking unpaid internships.

House sitting?  Okay

Pet sitting?  Okay.

Aide seniors?  Sure.  

Customer Service?  Maybe

Voting clerk?  Sure

But at this stage, I won’t decide until I’m back from vacation, about June 12.

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But I will not be alone at my apartment watching television!!

LOVE WINS

LOVE TRANSFORMS

Karen Anne White, May 20, 2024