What Are You Good At?

[ms spock]

I am really good at thinking things through! LMAO I didn't know that!

 

[Changing4Best]

Helping others with little things. I go to the Senior Center here in town many days and I hold doors for the seniors that are older than I am (I am the baby of the group). I pick up their lunch dishes for them and throw them out when they are done with them, go into stores for them and get things for them because they walk with walkers, things like that. I try to cheer them up. I listen to them. I laugh with them. We have a lot of fun. We remind me of school kids, the way we act sometimes. I think the director of the places sees us like that sometimes too. She's like our teacher. Only we teach her things too, of course.

Before I was retired, my hubby and I used to own an apartment building and then a motel. I used to listen to folks problems a lot. I felt like their mother at times. They would come to my place and pour out their troubles upon me, then feel unburdened and go off to work relieved. I fixed toilets, oversaw repairmen, paid bills, (lots of bills!). I kept records and did the shopping for supplies for the motel. I oversaw my employees. I don't know if I was a good boss or not. There are no "Thank you's" from employees. I gave them a room in the motel (a kitchenette) or an apartment in the building, and they did the cleaning and things like that. I lived there too, so I was a caring person and not an absentee landlord. I did what I could. Sometimes I would buy them things. Sometimes, like when I was the listening ear, I felt appreciated. Often, though, I felt unappreciated. There was resentment that the rent had to be paid (by the tenants and motel guests, not the staff). I guess there was no way around that. I felt that they thought I was made of money or something, but after the bills were all paid, there was not a lot left over. Sometimes I would have to borrow on our equity line of credit, to make repairs, like having a new roof put on or putting in new heating systems that were more efficient, or better storm windows. Then there was interest to pay....

I liked my job, but it was not easy!

 

[Namenotdiagnosis]

I'm good at destroying my own life by my own selfish actions