Interesting Job Description

Since my little bro was getting married, I was kind of amused when I got one email from one of my old friends. As the world becomes increasing commercialized, it seems that a lot of things are influenced by it. Take this job description for example. Utterly crazy in a funny kind of way :P

MOM - JOB DESCRIPTION

POSITION TITLE:
Mother, Mom, Mum, Mama, Mommy, Ma, Mater

JOB DESCRIPTION :
Long term, team players needed, for challenging permanent work in an often chaotic environment. Candidates must possess excellent communication and organizational skills and be willing to work variable hours, which will include evenings and weekends and frequent 24 hour shifts on call. Some overnight travel required, including trips to primitive camping sites on rainy weekends and endless sports tournaments in far away cities. Travel expenses not reimbursed. Extensive courier duties also required.

RESPONSIBILITIES :
The rest of your life. Must be willing to be hated, at least temporarily, until someone needs money. Must be willing to bite tongue repeatedly. Also, must possess the physical stamina of a pack mule and be able to go from zero to 60 mph in three seconds flat in case, this time, the screams from the backyard are not someone just crying wolf. Must be willing to face stimulating technical challenges, such as small gadget repair, mysteriously sluggish toilets and stuck zippers. Must screen phone calls, maintain calendars and coordinate production of multiple homework projects. Must have ability to plan and organize social gatherings for clients of all ages and mental outlooks. Must be willing to be indispensable one minute, an embarrassment the next. Must handle assembly and product safety testing of a half million cheap, plastic toys, and battery operated devices. Must always hope for the best but be prepared for the worst. Must assume final, complete accountability for the quality of the end product. Responsibilities also include floor maintenance and janitorial work throughout the facility.

POSSIBILITY FOR ADVANCEMENT &PROMOTION :
Virtually none. Your job is to remain in the same position for years, without complaining, constantly retraining and updating your skills, so that those in your charge can ultimately surpass you

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE :
None required unfortunately. On-the-job training offered on a continually exhausting basis.

WAGES AND COMPENSATION :
Get this! You pay them! Offering frequent raises and bonuses. A balloon payment is due when they turn 18 because of the assumption that college will help them become financially independent. When you die, you give them whatever is left. The oddest thing about this reverse-salary scheme is that you actually enjoy it and wish you could only do more.

BENEFITS:
While no health or dental insurance, no pension, no tuition reimbursement, no paid holidays and no stock options are offered; this job supplies limitless opportunities for personal growth and free hugs for life if you play your cards right.

Forward this on to all the Moms you know, in appreciation for everything they do on a daily basis, and let them know they are appreciated!

On Reading

Being an avid reader, here is one addition caution that should be added:

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
-Mark Twain

As Fate Takes You...

Its been quite a while since my childhood years. One of the things that I've remembered well then was about wild dreams of a future there to be conquered. Some of those things dreamt where plain silly. Some of them were plan audacious. However after every passing year since childhood and as adulthood approaches, it seems that the window of opportunity seems to close little by little as reality sets in. What grandiose dreams were then changed, deemed too unrealistic to be true. Though the goals has been set from the sky down to just a jumping height, somehow it is quite funny to look back today and figure that all that most of my immediate goals were accomplished.

This is the problem of aiming too realistically and maybe in a sense too low. Once you do that, somehow when you reach the goal, it makes you kind of less fulfilled. In the hindsight if I did aim too high, the sense of anxiety from not being able to fulfill your potential is another bad feeling that is hard to get rid of.

So what does the future hold? Hard to say. At times it sounds like a good idea and just take a short step backwards to think and reflect on all that is done, reevaluate goals and just keep walking forwards to whereever fate takes me. It will be a fun and exciting road this year it things go as it is. Once more things are finalized, I will promise to write a little more about myself - though as you notice I hardly do that - being as emotionally detached at times as I usually am.