Ditto! I said same below, and lots of us have had the same experience!

• need advice on how to quit - outta there
  • Give them a week's written notice...I'll be leaving xx/xx, please forward final check to . t - fg
  • quitting - nss
    • Ditto! I said same below, and lots of us have had the same experience! - MQMT
  • Here's what I said - sm
  • I am in the same boat, and the one thing - sm
  • The grass may not be greener. sm - Caveat Emptor
  • I've always asked if I can leave right away or if 2 wks is mandtatory. Sometimes they just say Go - :) Can't hurt to ask. nm
    • thanks all and... - outta there
      • I can relate to your story 100%, but be careful. I tried 4 other companies, and they were WORSE BY - MQMT

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I had a a lot of inhouse (limited) experience.  Then I started with a very small company locally with varied specialties part time and then added on a national part time about 1.5 years ago.  It still wasn't easy even with 17 years of experience. The testing was awful and I was actually surprised that I passed it. 

I had a lot of help and guidance from the small company that I'm still with after 2 years.  Great boss. 

as a foster parent.  Here's some suggestions for you:

1. Don't negotiate a kid's negative behavior like that counselor recommended all of the time - make negotiating  a rarity instead of the actual standard rule.  YOU are the parent and in charge, not the child.  If you negotiate then they'll always think that life is a big negotiation pool. 


2. Be consistent.  Set up the house rules and consequences/rewards and even write them out for the child.  For example, set up a sticker chart and every day the child brushes his teeth without being told twice to do so he gets a sticker, and when he gets "x" stickers accumulated he gets a small prize.  In my house we have what is called a  grab bag, which contains items that I got at the dollar store.  The grab bag is  a dark laundry bag and the child cannot see in there - they have to reach in there and grab a prize out.  On the other hand - anytime the child misbehaves, i.e. does something to make the younger sibling cry on purpose, they lose a sticker.   Kids his age usually do well with having to obtain around 10 stickers to get rewarded. 


3. Talk with the teacher about what is going on and ask them to try techniques to help build his self-esteem.  Oftentimes they'll do things like this by asking your child if they'd like to be the team captain for a game.  A lot of schools have school counselors available for free, so if this is available ask the school counselor to also spend time with him.


4. Socialize your child as much as possible with other kids.  Sports are great for this and allows them to burn off energy.  Playgrounds are superb as well. 


5. I also love the John Rosemond stuff - he's great on getting kids negative behaviors turned around.


6. Most importantly make sure your child knows you love him.  Spend a few minutes each day snuggling/loving on him or at least trying to.  There will be days he'll be refractory to this but other days he'll appreciate it. 


7. Never speak negative about his biological father to him or when he can hear you.  Kids don't understand when they have a parent that is bad and things like this often cause them to misbehave more.  I've had kids come to me whose parents were horrible parents/people yet the child still loves them. 


8. Don't forget to take time out for yourself.  Enjoy that bubble bath!

Feel free to e-mail me if you have any further questions.  Good luck!

I constantly see all these job openings asking for experience.  How can I get experience, when no one will hire me without experience???

nm

I really do find some of it interesting, and I like to feel like I am contributing to the overall care of the patient. I have a couple of decent accounts I consistently work on, and I really cannot complain at all about them.  The people I deal with at my company are nice too. 

 I was a SAHM for 7 years before doing this and I really like working again.  The kids are still young (7,almost 4, almost 3) and it is nice to be able to flex my schedule a bit if one is home sick from daycare/school and also to attend all of those class parties blah blah blah without begging permission to work through lunch or stay late to do so. 

I don't like doing the same thing for 40 hours per week though.  I have a hard time sitting that long.  I didn't think I cared for people very much as far as dealing with them all day long as part of work, but now I do realize I would like to be around people for at least part of my job.  I am thinking about doing some volunteer work at hospice or something just to give me some variety and feel like I am touching someone's life directly. 

I love using my education to do this job though!  DH helped me pay off my student loans from college and I had been getting sick of hearing about the lousy return on investment.  I also love that I am getting paid to know the information I loved to learn.

Not long ago, in  one of my nursing (psychiatric) journals, the editorial contained the phrase "to the manner born"....and I have seen it elsewhere.  Yikes!

Also my flesh crawls when I hear "orientated" but I see that has been incorporated as an alternative spelling per my Random House dictionary.

I find myself struggling not to correct grammar or syntax in conversation.  My daughter calls me a word-snot.

Which brings me to hyphens.  Do I have the correct understanding when I use a hyphen with, for, example, washed-up career, (i.e. the washed modifies career, foul ) but incorrectly when (and there seems to me to be an overuse of hyphens) if I write foul-smelling socks...because the foul modifies smelling per se?

And how about the frequent "I am anxious to attend the Rolling Stones concert" rather than the "I am eager to attend the Rolling......"

Thanks for your input.

Alexa in Washington State

The average middle class American worker is always the one who gets screwed!   It irritates the he** out of me that our government already freely gives handouts to freeloaders who are too sorry to work , and don't even deserve to be called a citizen of this country, and on top of that, illegal aliens break our laws to come here - but they're not punished for breaking our laws - yet they expect "free" medical care, "free" government benefits, "free" government write-offs - for the most part at the expense of the middle class.  Very ironic that so many people come here for our way of life - we do more for them than their own country - yet many of them hate America and what it stands for, and would not hesitate to spit on us and our flag, and some of these idiots in politics just let them do it.   Personally I think it's a collaborative effort to bleed the coffers dry, but what do I know,  I'm just a working stiff.   When is somebody in Washington going to speak up for us?