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So much character in that home. I see why you love it. Looks like it should be in a film.

Now I want to see pictures of your house.

Here's a link!

Marzec Doggy Ranch

I see why you bought it, it looks amazing!

Thank you! It's definitely been an adventure! My mother in law should get the glory, she found it and it suited all of our needs.

I always referred to my twelve hours days as working half days. I still do them but they take a lot out of me. This is probably a ridiculous question, but could you take a week off to just chill out?

I used to work for a company called EDS. It was owned by Ross Perot, who later ran for President. He did not allow us to take a week off. Everyone had to take at least two weeks off at a time, because he said it took a week to come down from working and the second week was when you relaxed. So employees were given two weeks vacation from the day that they were hired. That went to three weeks after two years and then increased to the maximum of five weeks by the time you reached ten years.

If you wanted, you could take all five weeks together. You could not save it or work and get paid for it. You had to take time off. Off course we often worked long hours and it was not uncommon to see someone in the same clothes as the day before because they had worked all night. Short naps under the desk also happened also happened at 3:00 AM.

At one point, my manager was based in Germany. She did not approve of our working ethic and told me that she was never going to work like an American. She worked four eight hour days and left at noon on Fridays.

Because I have worked with people from all over the world, I know that sometimes I will have to work twelve or fourteen hours and sometimes it is fine to work four hour days or take time off.

Yeah this job is not at all as bad as last year when I worked 16 hour days and then had to commute on top of it, so I really shouldn't be complaining. I have generally been pretty good about shutting down at a reasonable time since we started working from home... but the stress level right now with the uncertainty of reopening is just a lot. Since I deal with principals and new hires, both are at a MAX stress level and need a lot of extra support right now. I am okay with it--it's just a lot to take on so many other people's stress levels.

I completely understand and know it is something you will just have to get through. My cousin was James Cardinal Gibbons. He was the first person born in America to become a Cardinal in the Catholic church.

The pope issued an order that Catholics would be excommunicated from the church if they joined a labor union. This was in the late 1800's. Cardinal Gibbons made the trip by ship to Rome to tell the pope that if Americans could not join labor unions, they would become slaves.

The pope listened and told Catholics that they could join labor unions. My father worked in the steel mills. When he was on strike in Youngstown, Ohio, the company brought in armed soldiers to shoot at strikers, women and children. They were fighting for an eight-hour workday, plus time and a half for overtime. Ten were killed and hundreds had gun wounds. My father could never understand why people would work more than eight hours after all of that fighting in 1937.

There is an unwritten and unspoken rule that those of us in management positions are paid for eight hours but are expected to actually work ten hours a day. People who actually look at the clock and arrive and leave on time as pretty much regarded as slackers.

We deal with "all of Europe is on vacation is August and we can't get anything done".....I just remind people that 1) they stagger vacations there too and 2) they are only complaining because they are jealous.

I miss those days of everybody on vacation in August. Whole cities shut down and everybody at the beach.
The very first year DD was in school, the opening date was Aug 15 (right smack in the middle of European August vacation)! My brother's reaction to the opening date was : savages.