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jlf1961 -> RE: Positive Things About Your Job (7/27/2008 9:04:41 PM)
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Lets see, the best things about my job....
I dont get paid in cash, but do get a lot of smiles from physically impaired and autistic children when I get them riding horses for the first time.
I have the self satisfaction when I prove to someone that a horse that "has to be put down," doesnt. Simply by teaching them a different way to work with an animal.
The feeling of contentment when I manage to get enough materials and professionals to help get the home of an elderly person or single mother renovated so that there is no more chance for electrical fires, falling in plaster, or leaky roofs.
And in connection with the above, manage after 2 years to get a local supplier to donate more than warped studs and very cheap nails to do a project. (try to build a plum wall when the studs are both twisted and has a crown that looks like a roman arch)
Uh, wait a minute, I did get paid, last week one of the habitat for humanity clients brought me a loaf of blueberry bread, and for my birthday a bunch of the kids at the rehab center gave me a new cane, covered with glitter and flowers. But you know something about that cane, that was better than the two sets of samuri swords my sister and brother in law got me, and even my sister and brother in law agree.
Funny thing about a rude, cold, heartless, cynical son of a bitch like me, things like kids, old people, impoverished single mothers, and animals, they really bring out the selfishness in me. I selfishly grab every one of those smiles and store them away. For once, after all the money I have earned my entire life, feel like I am doing something that everyone should be doing.
The pay is lousy, at least on the physical level..... but I wouldnt trade it for a job that pays a billion a year.
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