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Are you happy with your current job? Why or why not?


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Am I happy with my current job? Overall, I would say yes, I am. I actually have two jobs outside of being a wife and mom. I am a crossing guard, which means at the elementary school I have a stop sign where I go out and stop the oncoming traffic, so the elementary school children can cross the street to and from school. And I really enjoy that job because I love kids and I love to talk to the kids in the morning and try to be a happy face for them to help them start their day on a good note.

And I love at the end of school when the kids show me the things that they've made or tell me what's going on in their lives, and I feel like I have a relationship with the kids. They go to school with my kids and I like that because growing up I had a relationship with a lot of people in my like a friendship with a lot of parents in my town and coming from a home of single dad who raised me. It was really important for me to have the connections I did with other kid's moms.

And so I like to be a positive person for those kids when they're coming to and from school. So that's my one job, and I love it. My second job, I actually just got home from tonight, and it's a home health care worker where I care for an elderly lady who has Alzheimer's disease and has been quite sick for a while. And I really find that job rewarding. It's hard sometimes, but the joy I get from taking care of someone else is really satisfying to me.

It's kind of interesting, because tonight she's not doing so well. She was diagnosed with coronavirus three days ago, and she was doing well with it. But she has since, taking a turn for the worst, and we're not really sure how things will pan out. So it's been a little hard to watch her suffer right now, but it's still hasn't made it to where I don't like my job. I don't like the circumstances going on in my job at the moment, but I love my job. Overall.

I really love being the hands of service and helping somebody else who is really incapable of doing simple things and helping themselves and being a friend and a person someone else can rely on in that situation.

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