humanity
The real lives of businessmen, professionals, the everyday man, stay at home parent, healthy lifestyle influencers, and general feel good human stories.
In the Beginning
In this crazy world of ours there are so many things that can go right and so many that can go wrong. With the current pandemic situation there is so much changing for everyone that it is so hard to find your feet. As a 90's baby I had thought that I had seen everything, known everything I needed to know, but man was I sorely wrong. Growing up I always thought being an adult would be so easy; being able to do things without having to get permission first, eating what I want when I wanted, going to school (or not) but using this mindset I lost my way, lost my center.
By Shiloh Ord5 years ago in Journal
I'm A Healthcare Worker
As a healthcare worker you don't always see the rewards in what you do. I don't have a trophy or even get and honorable mention from my superiors but I know the reward comes from a place no one can see. It is inside me the way it makes me feel so wonderful to know that my skills as a nurse assistant helps people to start the healing and to help them to go forward. It only take so little really just to hold a hand, or listen to them and let them know everything is going to be alright. I have worked as a Certified Nurse Assistant for nearly twenty-four years so I have seen the changes through the different patients and staff. The most important part of my job is the relationship that I build when meeting patients. You hope that they are comfortable and are willing to trust me from my approach. It's a vulnerable place for a person to allow you to do something for them and trust you will do it with thoughtfully. Nothing prepared me for the emotional battle I had to encounter as I deal with the Covid-19 pandemic.
By Peggy Whitaker5 years ago in Journal
Writers Block
Dear Friend, Under normal circumstances, writing is hard enough as it is. One might think that having to stay at home full time would increase your productivity and allow you to finally, finally, sit down and knock out that book that you have been meaning to write, but simply never get the time.
By The Perks of Being A Blogger5 years ago in Journal
Do Not Be Fooled by That Job Offer
Social Security Fraud First Thing This Morning - Before My Cup of Coffee! Friends, please be careful. Thieves are becoming smarter and more aggressive. Today, I received an attempt to steal my personal information; and a second business program similar in pattern to TheRealGroup's attempt, I fell for in May 2019. I will tell you more about that in a moment. Let us first tackle the social security fraud.
By Eddie Dollgener5 years ago in Journal
Working With A Disability
I was just in an interview online for a work from home job and encountered a situation that is not new to me, or probably for most people who have a disability who are seeking employment. Whether it be a job online, or in a physical location, people with disabilities are often looked over for positions of employment that they are completely capable of doing simply because they have a disability.
By Anne Chester5 years ago in Journal
Real-Life Wonder Woman, Nicole Cherie Barker, Helps Coaches Attract Their True Fans
Being an entrepreneur is not for the weak at heart. There is so much competition and pressure to fall in line with the standard model of perfection. Women are expected to behave in a cookie-cutter fashion: to show up in full hair and make-up, to wear heels, to be whatever everyone else wants them to be. Many women do fit the bill, but if we are really honest, it’s challenging to try to fit into that mold every day, and even more challenging to break it altogether.
By Victoria Kennedy5 years ago in Journal
CoVid19 - Me behind the mask
This won’t be fictional no names have been changed because no names will be mentioned.. This is a story about one healthcare worker who’s heart and soul went into her job anyone she took care of found it hard not to smile when she would start caring for them it’s about a job that was loved so much that it became her downfall. This is my story, when a job is more then a job caring for people who are deep in a weakened state it’s more of a life’s calling when you find yourself stressing yourself only to be so very proud of yourself for being up to this career challenge. Most healthcare workers throw themselves mind body and spirit in and in the end become drained of every bit of energy they put out. This is how the CoVid19 pandemic ruined my career only I was driven by fear and riddled with anxiety about it all and as a healthcare worker to know that I would soon be up close and personal with it scared me enough but this was a slow poison to my career, by that I mean it became a paranoia for me I’d get these small feelings of anxiety before going into work and I’d wonder the whole ride there “am I going to have another CoVid19 patient” I also would like to clarify that the whole reason I get completely stricter with a frozen fear of God in my blood over it is because how this virus mutates and infects each one of its victims differently some die some don’t some get mild symptoms of the flu some feel like it’s a slow painful drowning feeling, so believe me when I say this thing is on my top list of the 5 most scariest things ever experienced thus far in my life. This poison of a virus keeps me 80% in the house and the other 20% when absolutely necessary this awful thing that has stolen lives, taken jobs, made the world an even bigger mess stole my wits away that are at my nerves and forced me out of the job because my anxiety just won’t let me, I came into healthcare to care for the sick and do my best to keep you safe and alive but this virus took that from me and now I can’t say to myself yes I know this person will pull through and be fine, when I’m at work and you’re in my care I become a mother, or a sister, maybe even a friend and my heart aches for the sick and breaks hard for the terminally ill. I took a walk down another area of our facility during the first wave of this and to walk into this room and see people on ventilators sent the coldest chill through my body I questioned every patient in the room in my mind wondering if they had the virus I wanted them all to be ok and to wake up and be able to do what everybody else in the room was so effortlessly doing.. breathing. My soul just crumbled for them all and I think that was most likely the start to the end for me knowing that scene was to much to handle that night I prayed for each one, I thought healthcare was my calling I believed in my heart of hearts that was my forever career I was positive that I’d never actually be going to work because I loved it so much.. CoVid19 was the end of my career for me and not because I don’t want to help save you.. it’s because in some cases you cannot be saved.
By Carly Fidler5 years ago in Journal
