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About to Quit!

 
 
Reply Fri 9 Jan, 2009 05:22 pm
I am about to quit my job!! Yikes, yikes & yikes!!! I am just waiting for my boss to get off the phone & then I'm going to walk in and give my notice.

I hope to God I am doing the right thing! And, I'm nervous as hell!!

Hi, A2K!
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Heatwave
 
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Reply Fri 9 Jan, 2009 05:23 pm
I miss Noddy.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Fri 9 Jan, 2009 05:24 pm
@ Heatwave,
Heatwave, we have missed you.

You have at least my support - but, do you want to talk about it first?
Heatwave
 
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Reply Fri 9 Jan, 2009 05:27 pm
@ossobuco,
Hi, Ossobuco! I missed you & everyone else here, too!

Thank you for the support! I don't really have a choice. I am going to tell her I'm reordering my priorities with so much to juggle (kid, work, school). I think it'll be a good thing - but I'm nervous, nervous, nervous.
ossobuco
 
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Reply Fri 9 Jan, 2009 05:33 pm
@ Heatwave,
Ok, then, just plain old extreme support from here. I and, dare I say, we, care about you here.
ossobuco
 
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Reply Fri 9 Jan, 2009 05:35 pm
@ossobuco,
Noddy, we all miss her so much.
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sozobe
 
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Reply Fri 9 Jan, 2009 05:36 pm
@ Heatwave,
Hi Heatwave!

Whoa, big step! Looks like it's an important one. What happens next?

Good luck!
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squinney
 
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Reply Fri 9 Jan, 2009 05:43 pm
Good to "see" you, Heatwave.

Hope it is going well if you are doing it now....
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Heatwave
 
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Reply Fri 9 Jan, 2009 06:06 pm
Yes, I care about you and so many other folks here. Always gives me pause b/c I've never met any of you.

Hi, Sozobe & Squinney. It's done. The arm's severed. (Such a drama queen.) I didn't really want to - but would've prob'ly been divorced if I hadn't.

Next: Be a good Indian wife and homemaker. And, maybe ramp up the classes so that I run through grad school faster.

Make another baby.
jespah
 
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Reply Fri 9 Jan, 2009 06:09 pm
@ Heatwave,
W00p lots and lotsa changes going on in your life.

Good on ya -- quitting can sometimes be hard to do.

We all miss Noddy, too.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Fri 9 Jan, 2009 06:13 pm
@ Heatwave,
Oy vey, and ai chihuahua.
I won't make my usual blunt remarks since we have cultural differences, while I figure we would be pals in real life.

The good part seems to be re school -- which I don't know about, but I'm usually a school fan.
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Heatwave
 
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Reply Fri 9 Jan, 2009 06:22 pm
Oy vey & ai chihuahua, indeed! (Think I'll have to adopt this expression!)

I am a fan of school, too! I love it and that is definitely a big, fat silver lining!

Hi, Jespah - yep, lots going on. I think 2009 will be an interesting year.
Montana
 
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Reply Fri 9 Jan, 2009 06:29 pm
Hey Heatwave, so nice to see you again :-D

I wish you the very best, but you already knew that.

Missing Noddy to pieces with you and the gang.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Fri 9 Jan, 2009 06:39 pm
@ Heatwave,
I don't know where I got the 'ai chihuahua' expletive, or ay/ai - perhaps it was from Pancho in the Cisco kid tv series, which I've no doubt wasn't true to culture. Since then I've known people who lived in that area - not fictional. I never managed to ask them about this.

In english, I shun cutesifying of swear words - but I enjoy other languages' words. Not that 'ai chihuahua' is one of those - it might have been a screenwriter's brainfart.
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Frank Apisa
 
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Reply Fri 9 Jan, 2009 06:52 pm
FOR EVERYONE WHO MISSES NODDY...

http://able2know.org/topic/127630-1

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sozobe
 
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Reply Fri 9 Jan, 2009 07:07 pm
@ Heatwave,
Well dang.

That doesn't sound like super-good news then.

Do you have a pretty good mom-friend network built up already? People , especially stay-at-home moms, with kids your daughter's age?

If you need time to build that, A2K is here for ya...
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Heatwave
 
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Reply Mon 12 Jan, 2009 12:50 pm
Hi, Montana! Nice to see you, as well! How have you been?

Frank, thank you for the link to the pictures of Noddy.

Sozobe, M is still going to be in daycare, though I'll probably drop her a little later & pick her up little earlier. I'm just supposed to have more time to manage the house 'appropriately,' cook all the meals, chores around the house, etc. etc. etc. Alongwith concentrating on school & figuring out what I want to do in life post grad-school.

I think I could look forward to it, actually, if it wasn't being crammed down my throat. And, if I didn't hear the occassional comment that I wasn't quitting my job to just sit at home & party.
sozobe
 
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Reply Mon 12 Jan, 2009 02:17 pm
@ Heatwave,
Oh my.

All the more reason for an at-home mom friend network. It sounds to me like you're really going to need some sanity-savers.

Sorry I don't sound very positive about this -- in my own experience and in what I've observed of pretty much every person I know who has quit working to be more of a parent/ homemaker (male or female) -- it's a really difficult transition. All the more difficult when there's an element of throat-cramming. (Grr.)

Not saying it's impossible, not saying it's universally horrible, not saying there aren't a whole lot of good things about it. (I'm very glad I've had this opportunity and wouldn't have it any other way.) But the transition can be super-hard, and friends (especially friends in similar positions i.e. people who used to work outside the home and now don't) make a HUGE difference. Even just the occasional lunch.
Heatwave
 
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Reply Mon 12 Jan, 2009 03:23 pm
@sozobe,
Yeah, it's a little bit sucky.

And, no, I don't know any other at-home mom-types folks. I think I should try. Although, at least for now, I am envisioning a pretty full day for myself: wrap up chores in the AM after dropping M off, homework (which I have a TON of) and then school. I'm going to make fuller use of resources at school as well (libraries & such). Maybe get in some gym-time in between. Also, M's daycare/preschool requires 5 hours each quarter of volunteer time - so far I've been stuck with the crummy projects because I could ony do after work hours. Now, I could be a lot more involved with her school.

I don't know. I guess it'll evolve.
sozobe
 
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Reply Mon 12 Jan, 2009 03:27 pm
@ Heatwave,
School! I forgot about that, and it's a major mitigating factor. You get to hang out with adults and think adult thoughts and accomplish stuff (in a way that gets feedback, anyway -- there's lots of accomplishing in parenting but not a lot of feedback).

Still recommend other, stronger social ties (i.e., friendships, not just acquaintances), but sounds like you have the ingredients for that, especially if you start getting more involved at M's school.
 

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