This is exactly why I want to be a chef.

Had enough of this BS.

• India and CMT - US MT
  • Where did this information come from?? nm - Margaret
  • Sorry, but I wouldn't pay 5 cents to take that useless test. - Flibertygibbit - (no mssg)
    • I second that!! nm - Diana
  • If you belong to AHDI, you take the exam - for $175...so just a $25 difference. LOL
    • It's not any cheaper after paying for membership. - kmblw
  • Unfair! WHY OH WHY will someone from AAMT or whatever they are now - MSMT-CMT
    • This is exactly why I want to be a chef. - MSMT-CMT
      • Suze Orman had a chef on her show last week .. - read this!
      • This is totally unfair. sm. - CMT EXAM fraud
        • CMT - NYSMT
          • Looks like integrity doesn't belong in their title either - the way they sold us out
          • Neither do the - OTHMT

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I don't even know how to spell it--that's fancy stuff right there!  I usually eat weeners and ramen!  I actually cooked a little roast beef and taters for the first time in MONTHS tonight!  I could eat better if I dumped my critters, but then for me, what would be the point of doing what I do?

It's hard, no doubt about it.  We have married friends back in Mass who TAKE HOME $75,000 each and each have excellent bennies. BUT, they live in a house they never get to LIVE in and they never sit down together to eat...always eat separately on the run. They've got a gorgeous yard that they hire someone else to take care of.  It's whacked...they've got a gourmet kitchen and NEVER USE IT!  When they want to take a vacation, guess where they come?  To my place here in the boonies!  How messed up is that?! 

We only get one go 'round (or at least that's what I believe anyway) and we are the choices we make.  I'm thankful I've been able to make the choices I have.  I just happen to choose the beef-flavored ramen over the chicken one, and the smell of grass and manure over asphalt and exhaust.    

Does anyone have any info on this?  Is it a good way to make some extra money?  I said NO, he decided to do it anyway.

So consequently, cooking falls to me and cleaning the house falls to me.  My husband helps, but let's be honest husbands can sometimes be as needy as the kids.

Minnie, do you hear yourself?  You have a housekeeper, your husband cooks, your kids are grown.  That's great for you.  It sounds like you work because you want to and that's great again, but most of work because we have to.  We don't have a choice and we have to find a way to make money and be a good mom and a good wife all at the same time.  It's hard.  My kids are a priority and my paycheck is a priority, but if one of my kids wants to sit down and talk to me for a few minutes, then I'm going to listen.  If that makes me unprofessional, then I guess I am.

That doesn't mean I don't get upset with my kids when they interrupt me for silly things.  I do and they know when I'm mad, but that isn't going to stop them from doing it again, because they are, after all, just kids and what is important to them, may not seem important to me, but it IS important nevertheless.  No, I don't have them trained like dogs with the wave of my hand, but they're good kids and I am eternally grateful that I can take them and pick them up from school and I always know where they're at and what they are doing and when they'll be home.  I'm not calling from an in-office job wondering why my kids are answering the phone.  I know their teachers and friends and friends' parents.  Sure, my production may slip from time to time, but I've learned to adapt and I'm willing to sacrifice for what I view is the best reason to be an MT right now.