madhousewife's Journal

Since I just got up I guess waking up counts. At my age with my family health issues it can be amazing that it occured.

I am a jack of all trades, master of none. While still in high school I went to beauty school and learned to do hair. I tried to switch and take classes to be a social worker, but my councelor wouldn't okay it. I married at 17 and became a mom . When my sister divorced she decided she and I would go to a bartending school. I did well, but then went to Germany with my husband and that was that. There I ran my own day care which required a lot of classes and certificates. Once back in the states and my kids in school full time I worked in a day care center as a cook. Tired of that I worked in a grocery store as a cake decorator. I've since worked in factories, call centers, retail, cena, and am now an aide /cook in a senior care home. Guess I went from the cradle to the grave. I had ambitions in becoming a nurse and started back to school at age 47. I enjoyed it but have since given it up. The classes weren't too hard, but to get into nursing school you have to ace everything, and some of my classmates were on their second and third times in a class they passed already to get there score up. I don't have the finances or ,lets face it, the time.

Now I am thinking of taking classes in photography and vet assistant for self help purposes. I don't work that many hours, but I take care of Mom. Not in a physical transfere, feed , ect way. She can still function, and luckily she doesn't go anywhere in her car except the post office. She has the onset of dementia, and somewhere it changed from just sharing a house to doing almost everything. It is wearing emotionaly .