Night Shift

Thanks @Silenus

Very sweet 😊 I am enjoying the company here.

Have a good day. I am off out and about for a while now.

Thanks so much @Former-Member

Normally by this time I am a wreck about the anniversary - or maybe it was all the trips I kept making to the Juvenile Detention Centre - it was a time of terrible stress and I knew he was suicidal and could not help

I hope you can get an apppointment with your dentist on Monday - and it's not good you can't take the strong pain killers - there are times when they are necessary - and dental pain can be agony - as you know

btw - are you taking any antibiotics - it sounds as if you do - maybe you could see your doctor and find help there -

Decadian

You need relief soon - I just hope you get it

Decadian

@NikNik hi, it was somewhere else fortunately. its good to be on a site where people are nice to each other. the post was about a guy he thought should be expelled from school and he said he'd end up working in construction or some other jobs. It irked me, my goal is to get into 'unskilled work', I'm so over this 'you gotta go to college y'all stuff' it's just not for everyone. researching what i was going to do i found an ex-bank manager and other people with 'good' jobs who quit to do it and enjoy it.

@Kurra i didn't realise your avatar was a flute, I thought it was a lizard

Hi @Decadian,

I am so glad you found this forum and have found some nice people to help you throug htis tough time, my thoughts and well wishes are always with you, i hope you get time to reflect on what an awesome mum you where and that you did all you could, the fact that it has affected you so deeply shows how much of a caring mum you where, i hope you continue to take strength, guidance and a little cheering up from the forumites.

take care my friend, hugs

Jacques

Hi @plasmo

I know of people with uni degrees who have changed their line of work completely to go into "unskilled" jobs, for a variety of reasons.

Sometimes it has meant they make a lot more money with a lot less responsibility and stress - they worked that out after going through all the Uni studies and suffering stress in the career they thought they wanted.

Sometimes it's because they realised they wanted to work with people in their new job setting, and their other qualifications left them sitting in an office with a computer all day, or working with numbers and papers, whereas the "unskilled" work gave them the opposite. Or visa versa.

I have one child left in high school, and the education landscape has completely changed now. There are certificates for a whole range of things, and different pathways that are considered alternatives to formal studies and degrees, but still land you nicely in the areas of your choice. I think what you are talking about is actually catching on. It's "different strokes for different folks" and you should pursue whatever you want to do because it suits you for who you are and what it offers you, or what you can contribute, or both. No need for any judgements.

I hope you get in to what you want to do, and love being there.

And I'm with @Jacques on that.

Hugz @Decadian ❤️