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This is my blog. I
blog other places and do what I'm told. I do what I want here. Some posts I've been paid for, to mention a product or a company.
But I don't endorse for pay. When I'm not "mentioning," I'm contemplating, or venting, or trying to help. This blog
is a work in progress, trying to find its voice while providing a home base for all my projects. I can do whatever I want,
really. This is my blog.
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
Back to School?
 I'm 40. ish. I feel like I should
go back to school but why? I know I know - there are so many good programs available right now and I should take advantage of them, but why else?
What would I gain from taking advantage of them? I mean - going to school would be stressful. I have a house, husband, kids,
dog, real estate career, freelancing/writing gigs that I am already juggling. How will I find time to sit in a classroom
and study outside of it? And at my age... I'm not likely to actually change careers at this point... how would it benefit
me? Besides
making me smarter, I mean  Some version
of an online school I guess would be the answer. But
that just puts more hours of sedentary computer time in front of me. I might actually benefit from having to get out of the house and mingle with people. Hm. There might be something to this afterall....
Scrubbin Up for The Man
 I have never been a fan of uniforms, have you?
In all my years of being a working girl, dodging dress codes
and debating the merits of uniform and scrubs in the work place I have found that there are people who feel as passionately for them as I feel against them.
I
despise strict dress codes and uniforms because they stifle individuality. (often the point!) Some folks like them because
it makes getting ready for school and work easy. Also it supposedly promotes good behavior and reduces distractions for
a better learning/working environment.
Bah! It promotes laziness. Laziness for not wanting to think about how you're
presenting yourself each day. And laziness on behalf of administrators who want their subjects to be robots and sheep to keep
them "controlled" rather than do the individualized work involved with providing a safe & comfortable environment
for EVERYone.
I feel a wardrobe that makes one feel comfortable and confident is what encourages optimum performance
in the classroom or the workplace. Dress codes that do anything besides deter vulgarity, violence, profanity, cruelty, and
hatred are useless and evil - In my humble opinion.
Over a decade of working for THE MAN I managed to avoid uniforms until one day a new doctor bought the
optical practice I'd been managing for years. He and I fought about it and finally settled on a white lab coat for me and scrubs for everyone else. I found out where to buy medical scrubs but was unable to find any cute white lab coats that would complement my fashionable business wardrobe.
So
I quit. Hehe. Didn't see that coming didya?
It was bad enough working for THE MAN and I wasn't about to have him
telling me how to dress, dangit! Maybe if there had been the variety of stylish uniforms and scrubs THEN that there is TODAY,
I may have held onto that job a little longer. But then I might never have found my way into the glamorous world of freelancing
writing and selling real estate. And not working for THE MAN. LOL.
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