In the current time, it is challenging for young people to find jobs. I am grateful that three of my grandchildren had summer jobs, and now they will be returning to high school and college.
I remember my jobs during high school. One summer I was a mother’s helper for a wealthy family. My senior year of high school was split between classes and a cooperative training program at a local hospital. I then worked the summer as a nurse assistant.
Throughout my nursing career I have worked at different hospitals and units. When I worked in the neonatal intensive care, I worked 12-hour night shifts. When I worked in labor and delivery, I worked 8-hour evening shifts. When I worked for a home birth group my hours were unpredictable. I was on call on the weekends and could be called out at any hour of the day or night. Sometimes, I was attending a labor patient for almost 24 hours.
My most important job has been as a mother. It doesn’t have a shift or an end date.
I pray for the young people growing up today. I pray that they can find work that provides for them and contributes to community.
The book of Ephesians explains God’s love and grace, his desire for us. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10
Sharing this post with the Five Minute Friday writing community. Kate’s prompt is: SHIFT
different jobs with differing levels of accountability parenting was i think the hardest job ever and I still sometimes wonder if I did it well enough
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