What's on your Tuesday Menu?

Have fun in training! Glad you got a good session in beforehand!

I took secretarial courses in high school because my mother did not think college was appropriate for a Catholic girl who should grow up, get married, and have babies. I did not like that but did it and was good at it.

I babysat every weekend to make spending money and in 1965 it was 50 cents an hour. The summer before my senior year I was hired into a program at the local air force base and assigned to the people who handled classified information. I learned how to use a Xerox machine, something brand new then. Somedays I made dogtags for young guys who were going to Vietnam.

I learned about information security and how classified documents were processed and protected. One day I had a toothache and ended up putting my head down on the desk. An old colonel saw me and told me never to do that again. Even though all of my work was done. He told me to get a report out of the file cabinet, get a pencil, and then darken every period on the report. He told me it is important to always look needed and busy even if I was not. What I learned that summer applied to the rest of my work life.

my dad's sister always wanted to be a doctor, ever since she was a little girl. Her mother told her girls couldn't be doctors, so she refused to send her to medical school (she did go to college, though). Decades later, when my grandmother was on her deathbed, she told Marilyn that in retrospect, she should have let her go to med school so she could have been a doctor. I know - times had changed by then, but I still think that's so sad.

Good morning, everybody!

There are rumors that one of our competitors is going to change their remote work policy to an expectation of at least 50% in the office. Right now I go in 2 days a week, so 40% depending on how you treat vacations, holidays, etc. If I have to go in more, I guess that I could go a couple of ways: 1) go in on Monday and/or Wednesday after I work with my lifting coach, or 2) start going in on Fridays as well as my current Tuesday and Thursday.

Neither is perfect. Working in the office on Fridays will be a waste of time since nobody else will be in. Going in on Monday or Wednesday will require that I bring a change of clothes to the gym and shower before I head to the office.

I guess the other choice is that I make nice for the rest of this fiscal year, then next year I continue doing what I am doing and hope for an early retirement offer.

I continue to have stomach issues, not sure if it was something that I ate or a virus or what. I will call my GP in a few days if it does not get better.

Rowing workout last night 40/32/24/16/8 calories with one minute rest between rounds. I thought my 11:22, including the rests was good, but then I saw that I was near the bottom of the class. So, maybe not.

QOTD: I started caddying when I was in fifth grade. That was a great job. We got to play golf on Mondays and discretely later in the evening. From 10th grade through Junior year of college i worked at most areas of a supermarket: Front, Produce, Dairy, Deli. I started my first accounting job when I was a Junior in college.

I am not sure about food.

Have a great day, all!

Maybe your company will realize that keeping a better office/home work ratio is a little extra perk that helps employee retention. Nothing says that they have to do the same as their competitors.....

Sorry to hear about your ongoing stomach troubles! Feels like it's been more than a week for you with that.

As for work...wouldn't it be nice if someone asked what the employees want?

Sorry you're still having tummy issues. I know there so many things going around so be sure to take good care of yourself.

I worked grocery after high school. I did produce. Not something I'd ever go back to but enjoyed it at the time. Left to waitress and bartend. Much more profitable than grocery.

I liked produce. Supermarkets have a lot of jobs for kids but none that paid.

you and I both. Stomach issues.

Have you consider going back to Whole30? for a week? then if you gut improves, start reintroducing foods and drinks that you eliminated. One item every 3 days. Then you may know what is really going on.