{"id":338,"date":"2018-02-01T22:34:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T22:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2018-03-02T18:00:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T18:00:51","slug":"work-and-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"Work and Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

I always hear \u201cNo one wishes they had worked more when they are on their deathbed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then they have the wrong job.<\/p>\n

I have worked helping other since 1988. I got a job at a group home for teens in the juvenile justice system.\u00a0 It was frustrating, hard, important work, and even when it was a terrible job, I knew I was helping people.\u00a0 For YEARS after a client would leave, they would call, speak to me and let me know how I helped them.<\/p>\n

I left that field in 2007 and then started working with developmentally disabled adults in 2010, which honestly doesn\u2019t seem that long ago at this point. When I come in to work, they are happy to see me (most days) and even making dinner and giving out pills, I am working to make their lives better.<\/p>\n

At both of these jobs, I worked more than I should. I have usually had to have a bland full-time office job, because these jobs don\u2019t pay a decent wage.<\/p>\n

I also write and podcast. I am just starting to see some money from that, and I see these as my \u201cjob.\u201d I don\u2019t regret a single moment I have spent doing either of those things either, as it means I am creating or chatting with friends and creative people about things we love.<\/p>\n

Hell, there have been people in my life who, when I look back on it, I should have blown then off and taken that extra shift at the group home, and I regret ever having wasted time with them.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t wish you spent more time at your job\u2026maybe you have the wrong job. Maybe you need to follow your bliss, find a job you WANT to do.\u00a0 If you are doing a job you love, it\u2019s like you never work a day in your life.<\/p>\n

Is it easy? Nope.\u00a0 Can everyone do it?\u00a0 Sadly, no.\u00a0 But I truly believe that if you have a job you love, you won\u2019t mind working at it.\u00a0 I feel it is important for me to help people who I can help\u2026so even though I get owly about being away from home, get exhausted by working with people or just complain about working too much\u2026I know what I do matters.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I always hear \u201cNo one wishes they had worked more when they are on their deathbed.\u201d Then they have the wrong job. I have worked helping other since 1988. I got a job at a group home for teens in the juvenile justice system.\u00a0 It was frustrating, hard, important work, and even when it was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346,"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}