ms. tonya wrote:
> RESPONSE: Your post bought back memories of a few year ago when working
> with dog groomers @ a dog day care center.
>
> Woman came in and took position as a general helper in the day care side
> after she had quit her job at the main corporate headquarters for K-Mart
> in Troy Michigan.
> She left behind a $70,000 plus numerous benefits job because of high
> level stress & burn out.
>
> Owners of day care did verify her stats and hired her for minimum wage,
> no health insurance, for walking dogs outside with pooches not breaking
> away from leashes and getting hit by cars plus picking up dog poo &
> making sure dogs didn't kill one another during their play time inside.
>
> This woman claimed she always wanted to work with animals and the day
> care was near her home.
> I personally thought this girl was krazy as hell dumping a job with
> excellent pay & benefits in this day of age to work in a zoo.

I retired from a 15 year career as a molecular biologist in '99 and
eventually decided to work as a vet assistant/groomer at a feline
specialty hospital. I simply wanted out of the rat race, liked animals
and wanted to learn the vet business. My salary, prior, was well above
70K, and I had stock options, etc., was published and have patents.

I worked my way up to vet tech and ward manager and eventually quit
that job when I decided I wanted to focus more on my family. I do it
again in a heartbeat - loved so many things about it.

Money isn't everything.

>
> Really don't know if she's still employed at the day care as I started
> to feel like bolting into traffic myself place was driving me stir
> krazy.
>
> 35 years old and willing to work as a bus boy I hope you don't end up
> regretting this as I have had my share of that job title years ago when
> a lot younger than you, it was back breaking unthankful job.

Some people find the Zen in anything they do. A job doesn't have to be
glorious to be important. Without the bus boys, we wouldn't have clean
dishes, clean tables and clean dining spaces. I appreciate the "bus
boys" of the workforce - those people who work behind the scenes at min
wage doing meanial - but incredibly important - tasks.

If I didn't didn't have a good person to wash my glassware when I was a
scientist, all of my experiments would have failed. Never belittle the
importance of the "little guy".

-L.