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Life aspirations.

So I struggle with posting regularly.  It isn’t a lack of content, nor direction. I just want to avoid too much negative or confused posts from getting out into the world.
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A picture in our wedding album! 🙂

I am overall a grounded, happy person. I tend to get into funks where I just avoid doing anything. Now that I understand my Hashimotos a little better I try to give into my moods less. I also need employment. Not only for the spending money aspect but socially. My husband is getting ready to leave, and I have a long road of alone time. I must stay busy.

Right now I have no desire to use my degrees – meaning full-time social work job. Or any full-time job. My last job destroyed my love for that and burnt me out with working 8am-10pm with no overtime, and I always had weekend notes. Honestly looking back ( in 2017 to this post) I am impressed I worked so long for 25k salary and in poverty myself without any overtime pay.  I look at other life paths: In the back of my mind. I still want to be a therapist. In the front of my mind… I like working only a few days a week and having a semi-clean home. With projects and tons of relaxing.

Now when I get back from vacation for a month in October, I will be nannying 2x a week for 6 hours a day. I am going to volunteer at the local shelter or hospital for that part in the back of my mind and work on ” getting my life together.” I feel so disorganized.  Lame. And rather stupid for not doing anything since getting back from our honeymoon.

Thanks to “lifetime” blogs I feel my house is crazy messy. Ugly. And add their crazy good meals. Cute clothes. Adorable kids. And they own a business. Work full time. And wrote a book.

Then there is me… *twiddles thumbs*

WOW.

I picked a photo for my wall, and it only took three weeks…
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And.. made my husband’s lunch because I just NEED something to do.

I would even go back to school if I knew it would lead me to what I want to do. I love social media and wish I had a clue on steps to managing a company’s social media. But I love fitness. And baking. And therapy…

Yeah. I should have stayed in the USVI.  I need a good self-discovery book right now….

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  1. Alison V. says

    September 19, 2013 at 12:45 am

    I stumbled across your blog and this post resonated with me. I am a social worker also, I just graduated with my MSW and started working full-time about 3 months ago as a case manager. I was so excited to graduate, but now I am starting to get burned out, and it’s only been 3 months! Sometimes I think I would love to work part-time and then be a stay at home wife the other half the time 🙂 Because I do love social work, but I hate the stress and burn out that comes with most social work jobs.

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    • showmeashley says

      September 19, 2013 at 12:52 am

      The burnout and stress with 95% of social work positions is so brutal. 3 months is a long time. At our mental health clinic I worked at for 1.5 years.. people wouldnt last the first month and that was all shawdowing and training. It does get easier but then for me my company… they made it get hard again. And again. So I hope for you that it doesn’t happen. Or you find one of those magical positions that some of my other social work friends have. I can say part time work stay at home wife. .. pretty fun 😉 ( at the time being)

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