Day #17 of the 60 Days of Gratitude Challenge

[shadowkat]

This is Day 17 of 60 Days of Gratitude Challenge

The prompt is What about your job are you most grateful for?

Well, first of all, I'm grateful I still have one. A lot folks don't.
And that there are so many things about it - that I am grateful for it is impossible to pick just one.

I guess if I were to choose - the fact I can help others through analysis, problem solving, and writing. And contribute to the city, state and society in which I live in a major way - while furthering my values.

I went to law school - because I wanted to save the world or at least make the attempt. I wanted to help people and to contribute in a meaningful way. See? I believe we're all here to help each other, and the world around us - not to have fun and escape. That by helping each other in some small way - we make the world better. But it's hard. And it's best when we do things we're good at.

I'm good at communicating - and analyzing stuff - and I wanted a job that incorporated both in a meaningful way. I'm grateful that my job does that. Through my job, I've ensured the safety of millions of commuters. I've ensured people have jobs and receive reasonable pay for them, without costing the state too much in the process. I'm proud of what I do. And as crazy as my workplace makes me at times - I feel that I've contributed in a meaningful, if small way.

Comments

[rose_griffes]

We're close in age. I feel incredibly blessed to have both of my parents as well. (They might make it to great-grandparent status... although the oldest of that group is just barely in their early twenties. So I guess the race is on.)

[shadowkat]

I'm not sure you posted this to the correct entry? But yes, very blessed to still have my parents. Mine most likely won't make it to great-grandparent status, my brother had his daughter in his late thirties, she's only 16 now and not really dating that much and not interested in anyone. Plus COVID.

I think yours have a better chance.

[rose_griffes]

Oops, yeah, wrong entry.

I don't know if my father will make it that much longer. He's a few years older than my mother and he's had more health problems. On the other hand, he's a descendant of an ornery old cuss who lived into his 80s in spite of a lifetime of smoking and excessive drinking, and my father stopped both of those habits himself decades ago. So who knows.

[shadowkat]

I think yours has a good chance. But again, who knows?

I don't think my father will live much longer - and his father died in his 70s, so he's already outlived him by about nine years. My grandfather died at 75, and my father is 84 at the moment, turning 85 soon. Also, Dad has been diagnosed with vascular degeneration - it's faster than Alzheimers, so he may only have a year or two left.
I'm praying I get to see him before he dies. Right now he's okay, stumbling about with a walker or without one and driving mother crazy. He did stop smoking ages ago, but not the drinking. He still has to have a drink each night. I wished he had stopped that - because it may have added to his current condition - although most of it is due to his heart problems.