CHAPTER 12 AND 13

CHAPTER 12

                 

                            I think that people view work as a means of survival, and it also depends on where they are in life as well. For example; a person who works at a fast food restaurant isn't happy with working there they are only working there to pay the bills ( survive) or that single parent that has to work 3 jobs to pay for their bills. A person who is a doctor or a nurse, may be more happy with their jobs because the worked toward their degree and are getting paid fairly well. Choosing an occupation can be difficult I think that people choose their occupation by their personalities and from what they have seen occupation wise while growing up. For example when my sister was in the 3rd grade she wrote a little book about herself, in that book she wrote that she wanted to be a nurse because she likes helping people. Today she has been an LPN for 8 years and is studying for her RN. I believe that there is a relationship with age and job satisfaction, I mean do you want to be a 40 year old working at Jack in the box? I am sure you would want to be a nurse, doctor, lawyer or something more creditable. Job loss can effect the amount of stress experienced because you stress about how to pay the bills or put food on the table. You stress that if these bills don't get paid then you will be evicted, power will be shut off or your car repossessed. Its especially stressful when you have kids and you lose a job. Speaking from experience I could go without eating however I couldn't handle my daughter not being able to eat. There are programs out there to help people in need, there are SNAP, TANF, food banks and a couple nights a week I know that some churches have dinners. I know this because not only am i the health personnel at my job but I also help parents look for resources while they are here. I refer them out to D.S.H.S and opportunity council. I think that there are many issues faced by employed people who have kids. I know my issues that I face when I work is daycare, budgeting in my money to be able to pay for day care for the 3 months that I work. Household chores are equally divided while my boyfriend and I are working, if i make dinner he will do the dishes if i take my daughter a bath he will dress her and read her a story for bed. However when I am not working I am more than happy to do these chores because it shows my appreciation for my boyfriend and all the hard work that he does do.

CHAPTER 13 

                        Middle adult hood is the prime time of life, I feel like the saying that life begins at 40 is very true. I think this saying is referring to most of us at this time will be in the career we want to be, our kids will be out of the house and living their own lives and you can start to live a little. Physical changes start to occur late 30's. The crows feet start to show, wrinkles start to appear and hair starts to turn grey. The advice I would give to somebody who is going through this would be that these aren't signs of aging these are signs of every time you laughed, made a memory and what you have become. There are products out there, facial creams and hair dye to cover them up but my opinion is that every wrinkle, grey hair and the crows feet has made you who you are today as an individual. I believe that there is a great deal of stress that occurs when you are at this age as well, this is because you have to start thinking of you will as well as your parents. Its hard to think that one day I'm gonna be this age and my parents are going to die one day but has this thought become something that we all have learned to accept? That we are here and then we die? on the other hand do we really have a choice? We cant be like that vampire from twilight and live hundreds of years. Its always better to have someone to lean on while going through this " midlife crisis" . Maybe when I will reach this age someone will come up with something that will make you live forever. But would it be a blessing or a curse in disguise?