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Tag: career woman

  • Focus on the Fear

    A staple of my childhood passed this week and wow, do I have a lot feelings about it. I remember Dr. James Dobson and Focus on the Family as an inescapable part of my childhood and young adult life. My parents read his books and listened to all of his broadcasts. They bought me his…

  • Boomtown

    Today I am going to talk about economics. Not that I am necessarily qualified to do so, I only took two classes in it. My maternal grandmother on the other hand, majored in economics and graduated with a degree in it, from Berkeley, in the 1930s  Can you imagine what that was like? Studying about…

  • Work from Home Chicken Enchiladas 

    Ingredients:  2 lbs frozen boneless, skinless chicken thighs 1 package corn tortillas 1/2 bag of shedded cheese Can of enchilada sauce Taco seasoning Directions: 4:00 Arrive at home from school carpool pickup 4:15 Dust 2 lbs of frozen chicken thighs with taco seasoning and place in Instant Pot over two cups of water. Set for…

  • The Tale of Two Colleges

    I have been to college twice, and then taught at several colleges for over 20 years. For a long time, I could not understand people‘s negative attitude about higher education. Why would people hate learning so much? Why would people not want someone to grow and achieve more than the level that their parents had?…

  • Out of the Dark

    I am turning forty-nine this year, my last year before fifty and I am going through a big change. These last few nights I have awoken in the middle of the night, cooking from the inside out.  Scientists call it perimenopause, which is the second big change for women. I remembered my first change during…

  • Sales 3 

    Total commission sales is wild. That means it’s all profit or loss and you see it with each decision you make. If you make a sale you get paid, but if you don’t make a sale you don’t. It doesn’t matter how many hours you spent, it’s whether your time was effective.  All of my…

  • Sales 2

    A couple of weeks, I wrote about struggling through my week with several days with no sales. I now can understand a little how realtors feel by going to lots of open houses or car sales people feel after going on lots of test drives. The good news is that I did make a substantial…

  • Surprised by Friendship

    I have observed a trend of people shedding friends that don’t “tick all the boxes.” The boxes being someone who is dependable, loyal, trustworthy, accepting etc. I get the impulse, why keep people around who aren’t serving your needs or draining your resources?  The problem is that as an adult, deep friendships are hard to…

  • The Measure of a Man

    According to JD Vance’s book Hillbilly Elegy, is how he treats the women in his life. I was impressed with the sentiment, until I heard him speak disparagingly of childless cat ladies in the public sphere. His audiobook that I just listened to him narrate, is all about the struggles of his grandmother, mom and…

  • Work/Life Tension

    We were talking about the “balance” between two opposing ideas in college, and my instructor said it would be better if we use the word “tension”. There will always be something pulling for more. That concept has helped me through a lot of different situations. There is never really a perfect work/life balance, but you…