2/18/2008
“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad." -Theodore Roosevelt
I just wanted to address the obvious. I am aware that it is February and the holidays are long over. Hence this is why I included the date at the start of this blog entry. So please don't suggest that I talk to my local psycologist. Now that we have an understanding, I will like to explain to you the reason for my title.
I have been working for my former employer for about four years. During this time I have had many successes that included my promotion into Regional manager. I had a baby, which he is now two years old now, got married, brought a house, a new truck. Life was good. I worked many long hours and took pride in managing problems, employees all while making the stores I was running profitable.
Yes with the new promotion, I didn't have a personal life. I was on call 24 hours. Once I remember one of my employees calling me at 2am in the morning, and I had just got my newborn (3 1/2 months at the time) to finally go to sleep. Still I answered my phone to take care of the situation. It was always my personal motto "I am superwoman, I can handle all things." Needless to probaly say, my husband was not that pleased with the constant demand (admittedly unreasonable demands) of my work load.
I just figured that sometimes sacrafices have to be made to excell at what you want. Everything happened so fast, but one day I looked up and realized that I missed my son's first words, first step and most times I will drop him off at the babysitter while he was sleep and pick him up to go home after he was sleep.
It really dawned on me when my son was sick and he reached out to my sister to comfort him instead of me, could I really blame him?
Then on Dec. 24, 2007 I was gave the most unexpected Christmas gift . I was called into the District manager's office along with the Director of Operations and I was seperated from the company.
In other words I was fired. The reason was "streamline labor cost and production."
It was at that point that I decided that I will no longer pour all my hard work and dedication into a job, that I am not considered valuable. I will no longer be a victim of downsizing. I decided to go back to school no matter what, no excuses. I plan to start off in community college and transfer to a university majoring in Radio/TV broadcast.
More than money or material gain I want my son to inherit a legacy of determination.
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