I currently work full-time as a 'software engineer', mostly dealing with reports and charts, mostly dealing with Visual Basic for Applications, Let me tell you now, if you are an aspiring programmer, never let on that you have a clue how to use VBA. You'll end up playing with Access front-ends and Excel auto-updaters for the rest of your career. Pretend like all you can do is Java and make them put their databases in Oracle, PHP, or something similar! Anyways...
The reason why I work full-time is because my husband was laid off over three years ago with no college degree and found it very difficult to find a job. In those intervening three years, he's attended college full-time and is now the proud owner of a Bachelor's in Computer Science, just like me! He's got... seven job applications he's watching, according to his whiteboard, and one at the point where they might give him an offer within the next few days, we sincerely hope. He's only been searching for about two weeks now, so that's not too shabby.
Full-time work in a cubicle environment has seriously not been good for my health. I don't know what is "wrong with me", but I've gone consistently downhill with various health issues since I started working full-time again. My little boy was only one years old when I started, and I've felt the loss of my homemaker status keenly. A social anxiety added onto that has probably contributed to the downturn. Right now I am just about at the end of my tether, with a case of gastritis that was diagnosed Friday by gastroscopy and a rather serious case (according to descriptions I've read on medical websites) of burnout. I'm on "Family Medical Leave", working until I feel too sick to do anything further, and coming home early each day to just sleep for hours.
I'm an INTJ by the Meyers-Briggs test. Although people might diagnose me as ADHD Inattentive, I've found my various foibles explained perfectly by "Dabrowski's Overexcitabilities". I'm 'overly creative' as I put it, with a deep urge to express all the things I see in my mind. That overflows into everything from writing to sewing to drawing with a love for just about any craft I come across.
I live in a bi-level, which is the proper name for the kind of home that people tend to call 'raised ranch'. The kitchen, living room, dining room area, etc. are all on the top floor along with the main bedrooms, and the other bedrooms and den are on the lower floor, half-buried in the ground. Our front door leads you to a small landing with a choice: Upstairs or down? It's a decent sized house, four bedrooms, and we manage to fill it with three people due to a packrat having married another packrat.
I'm starting at the beginning here, with a decision to assert my homemaker occupation despite my current status. Probably I won't get so much done at first, but I hope in time to transform my home from it's current state into something much cleaner and more organized, more like how it was before I started working full-time!
Last but not by any means least, I warn my readers that I am a Christian. How long has it been that this is something to warn people about? I know there is a lot of criticism against Christianity nowadays, and I've faced a lot of bitterly angry people simply by admitting that I am one. I might as well get that out of the way at the start! I attend a nondenominational church, a 'country church' of about 500 people with a pastor who is also a farmer who preaches plainly from the Bible. I would describe my own standing as "Prima Scriptura", which does differ from "Sola Scriptura." From the Wiki article:
Implicitly, this view acknowledges that, besides the Bible, there are other guides for what a Christian should believe, and how he should live, such as the created order, traditions, charismatic gifts, mystical insight, angelic visitations, conscience, common sense, the views of experts, the spirit of the times or something else. Prima scriptura suggests that ways of knowing or understanding God and his will, that do not originate from the Bible, are in a second place, perhaps helpful in interpreting Scripture, but testable by the Bible and correctable by it, if they seem to contradict Scripture.
Now that we've got that cleared up...
Today is a good day to start a new homemaking effort. My house is mildly cluttered in many rooms and badly cluttered in a few. A lot of the regular stuff has to get done. Today is Sunday, and I hate to use a Sunday for work! As a result, I won't be attempting any big work projects today. Instead, I'll content myself with making the kitchen clean and picking up around the house. I've got a lot to do...
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