Comments on: under "occupation" I usually write "dilettante" http://fridayplaydate.com/under-occupation-i-usually-write-dilettante/ entirely true, but exaggerated for comic effect Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:24:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Friday Playdate » blurry (like my weekend) http://fridayplaydate.com/under-occupation-i-usually-write-dilettante/#comment-23968 Friday Playdate » blurry (like my weekend) Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:45:25 +0000 http://fridayplaydate.com/under-occupation-i-usually-write-dilettante/#comment-23968 [...] This is my friend Christa, reading about herself. [...] […] This is my friend Christa, reading about herself. […]

]]> By: Friday Playdate » it turns out “dilettante” actually IS a career (at least, according to ABC)* http://fridayplaydate.com/under-occupation-i-usually-write-dilettante/#comment-15907 Friday Playdate » it turns out “dilettante” actually IS a career (at least, according to ABC)* Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:58:07 +0000 http://fridayplaydate.com/under-occupation-i-usually-write-dilettante/#comment-15907 [...] this post, from long ago. Posted by Susan @ 3:57 pm • just happy to be here, other places [...] […] this post, from long ago. Posted by Susan @ 3:57 pm • just happy to be here, other places […]

]]> By: Her Bad Mother http://fridayplaydate.com/under-occupation-i-usually-write-dilettante/#comment-5596 Her Bad Mother Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:22:00 +0000 http://fridayplaydate.com/under-occupation-i-usually-write-dilettante/#comment-5596 I like Chichimama's job decription - Chief Home Officer.<br/><br/>I have to say that I have found going back to teaching tremendously rewarding - the fulfillment of thinking and sharing thought. Now, I only teach one class, so that makes it manageable, and I do ache sometimes to be at home, but I've come to regard my hours at school as something of a necessary respite from my work as CHO. I like Chichimama’s job decription - Chief Home Officer.

I have to say that I have found going back to teaching tremendously rewarding - the fulfillment of thinking and sharing thought. Now, I only teach one class, so that makes it manageable, and I do ache sometimes to be at home, but I’ve come to regard my hours at school as something of a necessary respite from my work as CHO.

]]> By: sozzled http://fridayplaydate.com/under-occupation-i-usually-write-dilettante/#comment-5595 sozzled Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:10:00 +0000 http://fridayplaydate.com/under-occupation-i-usually-write-dilettante/#comment-5595 The thing that I have found to fill that space in my life is to volunteer. NOT for your kids school or scouting, but for something you love. When I was asked to serve on the Board of Directors for a non-profit that I had long volunteered for I panicked....could I do it, would it take too much time from my family? Then my dear friend Marti (over at Standing Still) convinced me to make the leap, and I love it. A couple of nights a month I go to meetings, I get to dress up and go to functions occasionally. I am doing something that feeds my soul. For me it is working within the pro-choice community, for you it might be something vastly different. But my suggestion is to chose something YOU care deeply about and gives you a chance to do something that isn't directly for or about your family. The thing that I have found to fill that space in my life is to volunteer. NOT for your kids school or scouting, but for something you love. When I was asked to serve on the Board of Directors for a non-profit that I had long volunteered for I panicked….could I do it, would it take too much time from my family? Then my dear friend Marti (over at Standing Still) convinced me to make the leap, and I love it. A couple of nights a month I go to meetings, I get to dress up and go to functions occasionally. I am doing something that feeds my soul. For me it is working within the pro-choice community, for you it might be something vastly different. But my suggestion is to chose something YOU care deeply about and gives you a chance to do something that isn’t directly for or about your family.

]]> By: Granny http://fridayplaydate.com/under-occupation-i-usually-write-dilettante/#comment-5592 Granny Fri, 13 Oct 2006 04:57:00 +0000 http://fridayplaydate.com/under-occupation-i-usually-write-dilettante/#comment-5592 At this moment I think the only difference between your life and mine is that my weekly coffee date with a friend is on Tuesday.<br/><br/>We're even taking off at the same time. Unless something happens, I'm taking the train (by myself) to San Francisco on the weekend and spend some time with my blogging buddies there.<br/><br/>It will the first time I've been away from home overnight without the kids in at least 6 or 7 years. At this moment I think the only difference between your life and mine is that my weekly coffee date with a friend is on Tuesday.

We’re even taking off at the same time. Unless something happens, I’m taking the train (by myself) to San Francisco on the weekend and spend some time with my blogging buddies there.

It will the first time I’ve been away from home overnight without the kids in at least 6 or 7 years.

]]> By: Karyn http://fridayplaydate.com/under-occupation-i-usually-write-dilettante/#comment-5590 Karyn Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:37:00 +0000 http://fridayplaydate.com/under-occupation-i-usually-write-dilettante/#comment-5590 Wait, mausfrau - no you're not horrible! I would DIE, absolutely DIE, if I had to return to full time PAID work (as in A Job) in addition to the tedious housework, plus the appointments, the groceries, the laundry, the cooking, the driving, the scheduling, the birthday parties, the nursemaid duties - oh my GOSH. I don't know how anyone manages it.<br/><br/>Nothing horrible at all about wanting to be a SAHM. That's work enough. Truly - have you ever worked so hard in your LIFE? Wait, mausfrau - no you’re not horrible! I would DIE, absolutely DIE, if I had to return to full time PAID work (as in A Job) in addition to the tedious housework, plus the appointments, the groceries, the laundry, the cooking, the driving, the scheduling, the birthday parties, the nursemaid duties - oh my GOSH. I don’t know how anyone manages it.

Nothing horrible at all about wanting to be a SAHM. That’s work enough. Truly - have you ever worked so hard in your LIFE?

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