The school year's almost half over...

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Registered: 06-30-2006
The school year's almost half over...
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Tue, 01-16-2007 - 7:47pm
Is your work status working for you wrt

Sabina

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,

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Registered: 04-14-2003
Fri, 01-19-2007 - 12:58pm

*snort* because my oil filter is wedged into a tiny space smack dab in the middle of my car's deeper-than-it-is-wide engine compartment.

you have to put my car up on a hydrolic jack to access the *fuel filter*, and you practically have to remove the battery to relplace any of the bulbs in one of the headlamps. you need tools to replace the air filter.

i used to do minor-to-moderate repair work myself, but i haven't been able to work on anything we've owned that was built after 1980.

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Registered: 11-08-2006
Fri, 01-19-2007 - 12:58pm

yes. and they compensate me well to do a good job teaching their children.

Carole

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Registered: 03-27-2000
Fri, 01-19-2007 - 12:58pm

I have paid someone in the neighborhood to rake leaves before. He was a young kid who was looking to earn money to pay for a school trip.

And though I'm not the person you posted to, I do have kids. They are young and not capable of raking and bagging leaves. And I felt that I was helping a kid learn how to have a good work ethic by finding a way to pay for his trip w/o just "donating" the money to him.

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Fri, 01-19-2007 - 12:59pm

How does that answer my question?

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 12-06-2006
Fri, 01-19-2007 - 12:59pm

Go down to your old neighbor's house and ask if you can fold his laundry?

Would you like that feeling?

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Registered: 11-15-2006
Fri, 01-19-2007 - 12:59pm

Okay, now i see where i have a total opposite view, I do not find my nanny or housekeepers task's to be menial or mundane. these women are a huge part of our lives, they are my firends. They are both professional's and they both make a very good living doing what they do.

Cleaning homes or commercial, offices, construction ect is a lucrative buisness expecially if you are good at it.

I know degreed couples who own cleaning comapny and are doing very very well. I do not look down upon what they do to make a living, I admire them, I hire them becasue they are better at it then Iam.

When I was in my early tweny's I took a semester off from school. I cleaned houses with a aunt who is now a has a cleaning company. I mde 20 dollars a hour. That is proiductive work it is not menial or mundane. imo.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-27-2000
Fri, 01-19-2007 - 1:01pm
OIC what your problem is now.
iVillage Member
Registered: 12-06-2006
Fri, 01-19-2007 - 1:01pm
I am upper middle class. What gives you the idea that I'm not or don't know any upper middle class people?
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-27-2000
Fri, 01-19-2007 - 1:02pm
And so what if she does think that?
iVillage Member
Registered: 12-06-2006
Fri, 01-19-2007 - 1:02pm
I should've known, lol.

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