A Good Day…So Far
Woman in the Middle | November 12, 2015What are you up to today? I have a list a mile long which includes three meetings, cleaning enough cat boxes to make me think I am in the Sahara Desert because of all the sand, a trip to the grocery store to replenish the milk supply, and a boat load of laundry. If I am lucky, Eldest Daughter and I will finish her closet clean out and get everything back in it. I am involved because she kept a pair of end tables from her grandmother’s house and my expertise was needed to figure out how to fit at least one of them in her closet to get it out of my living room.
Meanwhile, I must constantly remind the kittens that scratching is fine on the lovely assortment of scratching devices we have provided, but not on our furniture. Blackie, meanwhile, has decided to go all anorexic on us. He will eat, but only if I provide exactly what his little heart desires. Unfortunately, he isn’t telling us what that is, because his grasp of English is very limited.
Youngest Daughter has yet another job interview today. I am providing wardrobe advice and motherly support. After the absolutely horrible interview yesterday, support is needed. The man she interviewed with asked her what salary she would like and then laughed at her when she requested a very normal beginning engineer salary. He then informed her that they would be paying barely above minimum wage for the first few months and then pop it up to a wage most folks can easily get even if they don’t go to college, let alone get an engineering degree. We are talking high fast food wages here. Or warehouse temp work. So, it is off to see if she can find a place that is more reasonable in what they want to pay engineers.
Meanwhile, my pets have cooperated by not pooping or piddling in inappropriate places this morning, , at least so far. Not, that makes for a good day!
I heard Cindy Crawford interviewed the other day & she said she was an engineering major in college! Of course she went in a different direction…The interviewer said just think how different our views of engineers would be if she had become one.
I heard that interview, too. She must have made all those nerdy boys hyperventilate when she came to class!
I think that attitude from the interviewer is typical. Employers don’t appreciate education as much as we wish they would. I remember having to go through that same mentality when I had just gotten my BA in Communication. They appreciate years of experience more. You should see how my school district treats teacher candidates – it makes them jump through hoops like you wouldn’t believe, and then it turns around and lays them off at the end of the school year.