You think you have life set. You graduate college, get a great job, have an okay place to live apart from your parents. It is happening. Life is moving right alo
ng and you can shoot for the stars. "Is this what you were looking for?" you ask yourself. Do you answer yourself? I do. Often. This was me 20 years ago. My life was ahead of me and all I could do was go up. I was 21 then and just graduated college. I had an absolutely beautiful 2-year old daughter, I had just gotten a great job at Cincinnati Bell in Ohio. I recently moved into my first house. What more could I ask for?
What a difference 7 years brings you. At 28, I had gotten married and had my 2nd child. I gained a child after my marriage, since my husband already h
ad one, too. That made 3 daughters. After two years, I stepped down from software development and decided to focus on my family. Shortly after, I had another child. Then another, and another, and another. The last four were each 3 years apart, so at 38 I gave birth to my 5th daughter. That makes a total of 6 daughters. No sons. And, THANK YOU LORD, no grandchildren yet.
I wrote websites from home for a while, but clientele got short and children aplently. I found out that you can't just get back into the computer field, you have to go back to college and get more certifications to get back in and be competitive, and I needed a career that was a little less intrusive. So, I became a teacher. 
I teach high school math, and I love it. It is too bad that the school systems in our country do not value our teachers. You value what you put your money into, and this country doesn't put its money into education. In the same school system, if I were a computer programmer without a degree, I would make 40% (approximately) more than if I were a teacher with a degree. We will blog more on that in another blog, I am sure many have plenty to say about that.
The education cut backs in Florida have caused many instructors to lose their jobs, and currently I am one of the teachers without a job. So I am looking at getting back into software. It is going to be hard, but life is hard.
Again, I look back. "Is this what you were looking for?" I ask myself again. Portions are better than I thought, portions more than I bargained for, and finally portions are more frustrating that I could ever imagine. I deeply love all of my kids and would not undo having them for anythng in the world. But, when do moms get a break? I have an entirely separate blog on this on weebly, you could call it a woman's discussion session..... you know what I mean?
ng and you can shoot for the stars. "Is this what you were looking for?" you ask yourself. Do you answer yourself? I do. Often. This was me 20 years ago. My life was ahead of me and all I could do was go up. I was 21 then and just graduated college. I had an absolutely beautiful 2-year old daughter, I had just gotten a great job at Cincinnati Bell in Ohio. I recently moved into my first house. What more could I ask for?What a difference 7 years brings you. At 28, I had gotten married and had my 2nd child. I gained a child after my marriage, since my husband already h
ad one, too. That made 3 daughters. After two years, I stepped down from software development and decided to focus on my family. Shortly after, I had another child. Then another, and another, and another. The last four were each 3 years apart, so at 38 I gave birth to my 5th daughter. That makes a total of 6 daughters. No sons. And, THANK YOU LORD, no grandchildren yet.
I wrote websites from home for a while, but clientele got short and children aplently. I found out that you can't just get back into the computer field, you have to go back to college and get more certifications to get back in and be competitive, and I needed a career that was a little less intrusive. So, I became a teacher. 
I teach high school math, and I love it. It is too bad that the school systems in our country do not value our teachers. You value what you put your money into, and this country doesn't put its money into education. In the same school system, if I were a computer programmer without a degree, I would make 40% (approximately) more than if I were a teacher with a degree. We will blog more on that in another blog, I am sure many have plenty to say about that.
The education cut backs in Florida have caused many instructors to lose their jobs, and currently I am one of the teachers without a job. So I am looking at getting back into software. It is going to be hard, but life is hard.
Again, I look back. "Is this what you were looking for?" I ask myself again. Portions are better than I thought, portions more than I bargained for, and finally portions are more frustrating that I could ever imagine. I deeply love all of my kids and would not undo having them for anythng in the world. But, when do moms get a break? I have an entirely separate blog on this on weebly, you could call it a woman's discussion session..... you know what I mean?
