Today is a big day. My youngest will be starting his first real job today. He got on out at Kawasaki and starts in a couple of hours. This now means that all of my children are gainfully employed and even though they didnt quite follow the careers path that I was hoping that they would take, they are trying. I guess that I was hoping that they would go on to college and be rocket scientists or brain surgeons but in this day and age just having a job means a lot. I cant complain though, I didnt graduate college until I was 40 and some days Im still not for certain as to what I want to be when I grow up. They have a long life ahead of them and Im confident that they will eventually find their way. In a little while I will take him out to work and drop him off. Im pretty proud of him. Maybe he will work there for the next 30 years and retire at age 50 and maybe he will hate it and go back to school. Either one is good as long as he is trying. Life is long and in the end you are only racing against yourself anyway so happiness is more important than money or fame. I dont care who you are or what you do for a living regardless of whether you scrub toilets at the Qwik Trip or you are the CEO of Ferrari, as long as you are honest and work hard no one has a right to look down on you. Before I graduated college as became a teacher I was working three jobs. I worked at Clarinda Academy all day, the Hy Vee deli in the evening and then at 10, I went into Shore Motors and did janitor work for three hours. They werent glamorous jobs but I fried great chicken and scrubbed a mean toilet. I paid my bills and managed to get where I am today. I like being a teacher. I guess what Im trying to say is that I refuse to be disappointed in my kids just because they didnt do what I thought they should with their lives. They are going to do what they are going to do regardless of what I want. None of us get out of here alive so you might as well be happy......its just a frame of mind and generally costs less than a cup of coffee. Ill be fifty this year and to be very honest, its probably been one of the best years of my life. In my senior interview for the Hamburg Reporter thirty years ago, I said that I wanted to be an art teacher and a wrestling coach. It took me 22 years to get there but I made it so Im going to be patient with them for the next twenty or so years. Yep....today is a big day. All of my kids are out on their own and have jobs ......and thats something.
Posted on: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 17:58:10 +0000
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