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Job Burnout: Brevity Contest

This BREVITY poem I wrote was for Casarah Nance's contest. Closed already! So printing my poem anyway I love my job, I really do. Even though my hours are long and the benefits are sometimes few. I make the coffee for the crew, and a zillion other things for them I do. Jobs are important! So I'll hold on to mine, because never again do I want to stand in the unemployment line. Sometimes I feel unappreciated, in this job I've been given. But I know as a wife and mother it's the best kind of livin' However, at times, I YELL, "Enough! Enough! Enough!" And to my husband I say, "Here, you change your son's diaper. I'm finished for the day." "The children are all fed, and your wife is going to bed!" .

Copyright © | Year Posted 2015




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Date: 7/18/2015 7:24:00 PM
I LOVE this one!!! It says so much about you as a person, because you appreciate your life and your job. I do too. We are Iowans through and through.
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Darlene Gifford
Date: 7/19/2015 7:48:00 PM
Yes, how true! Sometimes we just need a loving reminder from hubby like a big, I appreciate you hug. But, of course, flowers and candy work, too!
Date: 7/17/2015 7:32:00 AM
Oh, I do know how it feels to be unappreciated, not a very good feeling. You work so hard and sometimes not even a thank you. Good pen a 7 Hugs Eve
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Darlene Gifford
Date: 7/17/2015 7:50:00 AM
Thanks, Eve, I can see you really understand my poem. But despite all that, the rewards of being a wife and mother are many. We just don't see them all the time. Have a great day, Darlene

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