Not Quite a Nurse

Selfish UnSelfishness

I usually start the story like this...

I finally figured out what I wanted to be when I grew up when I turned forty!

Ditched the first profession as a payroll administrator, what I went to post secondary school for years ago and completed the three level Carswell courses successfully as well, no easy feat, I started a cleaning business so I could be home with my kids when they needed me most and still provide for the family. Then something amazing happened!

I grew up! HA!! Who knew? Well, at least I figured out what I wanted to be when I did. Still debating the 'grew up' part.

Back in my corporate days I always felt like I was wasting my life away sitting at a desk doing the most routine job ever in any corporation. Watching all the backstabbing, sneaking around, and corporate bull in colleague's attempts to move up that proverbial corporate ladder was outright draining on the soul! And the commute. Flippen Flap Jacks! Almost three hours in a car per day, on a good day! The phrase 'Just shoot me now!' sprang from my lips often as I crawled along at twenty clicks on the 'Freeway' not feeling very 'free' at all!! Never again will I do that.

Ever!

Well, all that was eliminated during those years of cleaning houses. Entering into my client's most personal spaces I had crossed paths with some of the most amazing human beings! A lot of wack jobs too, but honestly, some of the most amazing people, doing some of the most amazing work, helping people in the most intimate ways.

Personal Support Workers - P.S.W.'s in short.

As the Cleaning Lady I would be working away doing my thing, while they, the PSW's, would run in and do their thing with my client and sometimes we would talk while we did 'our things' and I thought after a while, 'I want to do their thing not my thing anymore!!!'

So, after returning to school, again, and taking a fairly big pay cut, again, but adding huge job satisfaction and over all even bigger personal satisfaction in life, I have struck gold!!! I have found this to be the most selfish of things to be doing. I describe it as being a 'Selfish Unselfishness.' I am absolutely hooked on that drug, that feeling you get when helping the most vulnerable in our community. Making them feel better and their lives run smoother is the goal of this gig. Getting a smile and a laugh from them, is priceless! Not to hard for a nut who thoroughly loves people! Though some say its hard work, it sure doesn't feel like it when you can't help yourself from smiling.

The Cheshire Cat syndrome is upon me. It's like travelling around and visiting my Peeps all day long, helping them out a bit. And for this I get paid!!!

I get so much more than a means to support myself doing this, it is truly what I have been put on this earth to do.

What more can a person ask for???

Oh, a perfect soulmate? Found that too when I turned forty. HHHHmmmm, forty must be my lucky number. Now lets get this straight. I am not talking about my 'Night in Shining Armor' here. More like my equally zany nut of a fire fighting man who enjoys being on the same page in life with me. Yesssssss, he is a Hot Firefighter! Of course he is, they all are don't ya know! You have seen the calendars haven't you? So come on, I am right and you know it! The funny thing is, this guy don't know it. Sweet as Mama's apple pie he is! It's quite a combo.

You see, just as I was finishing up at school, jut before my final exam, a nursing mentor pushed me to do something this newly separated mother of three never considered to do in her whole life. An online-dating site.

Craaaaaaazzzyyy!

Well, ok, I just lied to ya on that one because I had always gone into a trance watching the E-Harmony commercials. For years, no try decades, I'd stare mesmerized (with a little drool some times even) thinking 'Is that really possible?' And then the question, 'People really can be happily ever after?'

Well how would I know! I had done such a bad job picking out the first one. A very bad decision that lasted twenty-four years of my life! Yep, I guess I could use some help picking out someone to date.

So, I went fishing you see and caught the man of my dreams by way of electronic fishing line! And ever since our very first interaction on a very cheesy website, we have been 'Us'.

Sometimes he actually helps me get my old Peeps out of bed at the retirement homes. I just look at them when they are rolling away from me, deeeeeeeper under their covers, and I say playfully 'Hey, I left a HOT Fireman in my bed at home to come here to see you!!' Which usually causes a giggle, or eye rolling, but gets them interested in hearing the story about that. Dirty old buggers! HA!!! But it usually always works. Can't have them aged retired Peeps loafing around all day missing breakfast and the med cart. Can't have that! So, I get them moving with my crazy stories.

Stories all around. I tell them stories about my life and they tell me stories about theirs and there is so much to be gained in all this sharing of each other.

Here, let me share a bit with you. Grab a cup of coffee, we have some story sharing to do.

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My best, and hope to keep you reading on! Enjoy the day your in, McJ