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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 2/19/2009 1:25:29 AM
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Mrs.X
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Hey, gals. Just started working a couple weeks ago, so I thought I'd join this thread. I just work 2 eights on the weekends as a security guard downtown. My husband works M-F, so it works out kinda nice that he can just stay at home with them and then I'm at home with them during the week. Husband's job was cut from salary to hourly, understandably, because people can't afford to get their houses serviced for bugs the way things are now. And, he's only pulling in about 25 hours a week, sometimes less. I'm really diggin' my new job though. I work at a really nice site, and the other guards I work with are pretty nice. And, that's two days a week I don't have to do dishes or pick up toys. We're thinking with me working the 16 hours a week that our whole income should be about the same as it was when my husband was salaried. So, we'll be able to still live here and keep our internet and stuff.
Look forward to getting to know some of you better. :)
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 2/19/2009 10:53:07 AM
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Well, I work kinda outside the home. I work a job from home , and most often no one understands that my home office is my home office, and I literally cannot and do not leave it except to go to the bathroom. I have a toddler (who is taken care of 3 out of 5 days by grandma, God Bless her!)....and ear phones while I work. I am 36 weeks along with my second baby, so I can deliver any day...after Friday! My hubby is a student, in his second year, for a music major w/emphasis in education (e.g. band director) - which is like a double major, as you need your teaching degree & music degree. We have a long road ahead of us.
I like working, but I get stressed out, because I still have all the cleaning & cooking responsibilities - except when my husband isn't a student in the summers. He's also employed as the part-time music director of our small church. He's a great dad & student. My job allows us two incomes, retirement, insurance, etc... which we need, as my hubby's job doesn't provide for that currently (still pays a decent amount).
I don't feel bad for working, but find that a LOT of people who are my acquaintences or think they know about me don't know that I DO work, I'm NOT casual, and this is not a so-so job. It's hard, because most of those people are in my church. ... a lot of women there have (older) kids and work when they go to school. I won't be in that boat for a while. So, I am blessed with a great job for now :o).
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 2/19/2009 11:12:05 AM
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I work part time and so sometimes I get 4hrs or sometimes I get 40-44hrs it varies... but hubby usually gets 40hrs and sometimes extra hrs...but they have laid off alot of people at his work :/ so I feel blessed God is providing what we need :)
This week started mail count so I am getting full hours :) for a month. So I am going to get some things paid off hopefully!
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 2/19/2009 12:17:36 PM
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Yay for the extra hours, Jennifer.
Stina...I'd been wondering about you. Guess now we know why you've been busier than normal!! It's really good to "see" you.
Lyrach--congrats on the 2nd baby. And you are a working mom...no matter what anyone tells you. You haven't been around the forums too long, so I suppose it's all right to say....WELCOME!!
Kylie--how are things going for you?
MommaBee...that's kind of stinky about the layoff, but NICE that it works out so that your income won't be much less. That's kind of how our income has worked out (more or less).
Things are the usual typical here at school. It will be time for progress reports soon though. I have 3 IEP meetings next week. That'll be a busy couple of days.
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 2/19/2009 2:13:35 PM
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Mrs.X
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Lyrach, what kind of work do you do from home? Is it like customer service?
Jennifer, you work for the USPS, right? I forget what you do, not a mail carrier? You actually work inside the post office?
Megan, I forgot you are a teacher. What's IEP stand for? What grade do you teach?
Yep, I was pretty busy for a bit. I had training and orientation and my license renewal and stuff, but now I just have my two days. So, I shouldn't be too busy now, unless someone calls in sick. AH! I just remembered I have to take my uniforms to the dry cleaner today! I better go do that soon so they will be ready by Friday afternoon.
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 2/19/2009 3:51:32 PM
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An IEP is the individualized education plan. I'm a special education teacher. My students are (grade-wise) in kindergarten through fourth grade so ages 5-10. They're great 
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 2/20/2009 7:51:07 AM
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I HATE going to IEP meetings.
BigBee is gifted, so he gets one as well. They are getting better, but I have yet to see where they commit to his education - it is always extra things so that he isn't bored, but nothing to improve what he is learning.
Does that make sense?
He gets field trips and academic teams if he wants them, but that doesn't help him when he gets lousy grades in math for not showing his work. He can do it in his head because he is good and doesn't know how he got there because it is just basic to him. It is like asking someone how you know that 'book' is a noun. You know a noun is a person / place / thing / idea, but how do you know that book is a noun. The answer would be a book is something that you can pick up and hold so it is a thing, therefore it is a noun. But you don't need to show your work in english. He will look at 1/2X=120 and just say 240 without writing down the steps and the teachers never worked with him on the HOW and got mad when he didn't show his work. To him, he didn't need to learn how since he could get it write.
He used to joke that when asked essay questions in math (how do you know...) he was going to write 'because I'm smart'.
So, I go into IEP's and listen as they tell me how wonderful my son is, I suggest that they do things to improve his education in the 3-R's and they say that B's in math are good, he is stuck reading books beneath his grade level in class and must do all the review work and then offer to take him out of class to go play competitive Suduko.
Work - everyone is dumping their stuff on me before I leave...
Lyrach - I'd love to work from home - if my home was CLEAN. I would sit and fret about what was undone on the other side of the door. And, I am so glad you explained the music ed thing. I always knew that music ed took longer and required more credits because of the music / preformance classes, but I never thought of it as two degrees. As soon as I read that, I did that mental head slap "of course" thing we all do...
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 2/20/2009 8:14:25 AM
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mommabee, I feel your pain on the whole IEP-thing. My oldest is "gifted" also. He's in second grade and right now it seems that "Creative Academics" (as they call it here in North Florida) is more of a holding room/keep the smart kids entertained one morning a week type thing. Next year he'll go to "Creative Academics" every morning and then spend once a week at the Academic Resource Center, so I'm really hoping things ramp up a bit then. Our biggest problem with Marshall is his handwriting. He just doesn't have the patience to practice and really get it so we can read it easily. I've thought about just letting him type, but it's really important for him to improve his handwriting.
Well, I'm off to officially start my work day. I've got a pile and a half of design projects on my desk that I've got to finish and get to the printers ASAP, plus a list of database queries my boss wants me to write. Should make for an interesting and varied day!
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 2/20/2009 11:39:46 AM
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Stina, I do indeed work for USPS I am a PMR which is a Post Master Relief I fill in for the postmaster but I work in small office where only the post master works which here we do everything, sort mail, box mail, do retail and work the window... and my only garunteed day is Saterday which is 4hrs and any day the postmaster needs off... but my mom is a postmaster so sometimes I fill-in at her office and sometimes I fill-in at another small office... I don't fill in at larger offices b/c im not trained on machines yet... we do every thing at our office the manual way lol
Also I know most people have heard the whole proposal of loosing one mail day either Saterday or Tuesday but I am really thinking its going to be Tuesday, for one the if loose saterday you have 2 days of mail loss...then one day, plus a PMR job garuntees Saterday... so what will happen with us PMRs?? So honesly I think it is going to be Tuesday... just incase you where wondering...
Work busy, busy atleast its Friday I hope you have a good day and work goes by fast!
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 2/20/2009 12:18:03 PM
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I hadn't heard about losing an additonal mail day. Wow...crazy stuff.
IEPs can be crazy stuff too. I understand that y'all don't want to go to them, sometimes I don't want to hold them. It's mandated by federal law (IDEA) though so we have to do what we have to do. Are there things that the school staff could do better to help make the meetings go smoother? I know we (at my school/coop) try our best to have as much parental involvement as possible as it is a team process to come up with the plan that will best meet the child's individual needs.
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 2/20/2009 12:24:28 PM
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I hadn't heard about losing an additonal mail day. Wow...crazy stuff.
IEPs can be crazy stuff too. I understand that y'all don't want to go to them, sometimes I don't want to hold them. It's mandated by federal law (IDEA) though so we have to do what we have to do. Are there things that the school staff could do better to help make the meetings go smoother? I know we (at my school/coop) try our best to have as much parental involvement as possible as it is a team process to come up with the plan that will best meet the child's individual needs.
I appreciate the IEPs! Don't get me wrong! My sister is a special needs teacher too and I know how much work goes into them and how much they are needed and do help. I was just kvetching about the challenges of IEPs for gifted students.
So, my fabulous and exciting weekend includes laundry (as always!) and helping Marshall with his report on Ben Franklin. What are y'all up to?
--Kat
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 2/20/2009 1:01:58 PM
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Mommabee and Kat, that sounds so frustrating. I knew kids in school who were in GATE (gifted something something something), and I asked my friend what she does at GATE when she goes (it was twice a week). She says, we just goof off and play around so we don't get bored with school. I was kind of surprised.
Jennifer, that sounds like a pretty cool job. I bet you're really busy on Saturdays. I know when I used to work M-F I used to always go to the post office on Saturdays. That's probably true for most people who work M-F. I'm glad it will probably be Tuesdays and not Saturdays. It would make it hard for people who work M-F to get post office errands done if Saturdays were cut. And, you would lose your job too, wouldn't you?
Not too much going on here. I work tomorrow, so I've gotta get everything ready tonight before bed. I have to wake up at 4:45am to make it to work on time on Saturdays (Sundays I wake up at 5:10 because parking is free on the street on Sundays), so I will take a shower, iron my hair, get my lunch ready, lay out my uniform, get the coffee ready, and write out meal ideas for my husband all tonight.
Have a good weekend gals!
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 2/20/2009 1:02:43 PM
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To answer the question.
I walk in and it is already completed. They tell us they will change it to match our suggestions, but we don't know what we can add to it.
When he was in Elem, he had 17% of his day in gifted, but it was in 1/2 day blocks. And, he had to make up his regular work. I didn't want him to be required to do that, but a teacher, who was NEVER there, said he did (every teacher, to prepare for standardized tests)
Since the work was in blocks, he had to do things he didn't want to do, like learn suduko, but if she planned something he wanted, but his teacher had a test that day, he had to stay in class and take it.
I wanted to fix these problems for him, but didn't have any idea HOW.
If there was some way to 'meet' (even over the phone) between an advocate and the parents, so that we could formulate problems and look for solutions before the IEP meeting, we wouldn't feel like we were being difficult.
I mean, the paperwork would be printed and signed by folks who couldn't be there, so if we had changed it, it seemed like an inconvenience.
The meetings themselves must be held during the school day. That isn't always convenient for parents. Especially when they are trying to work them around a teachers schedule. I know you get paid for a standardized work day, but I had at least one time that 4pm would have worked a LOT better than 2.
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 2/20/2009 4:16:15 PM
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 2/23/2009 10:25:52 AM
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Thanks for welcoming me! I am a medical coder/abstractor - there's a numeric system that was developed in the 80's (and is added to, revised, and changed about 4 times a year!) for diagnosis, disease, medical procedures etc.... that is used primarily by Medicare for reimbursement for hospitals. I look at electronic charts of patients, read through all documentation, and put in numeric codes from the diagnosis, reason of stay, treatment provided, conditions the patient had, etc.... I plug those into a system that is called an analyzer & grouper. That, in turn, processes the numeric codes, and puts it into a Diagnostic Related Group (DRG) that in turn has a relative weight in the Medicare world which equals a dollar amount that medicare will reimburse the hospital for, for providing for that certain level of care for a patient. WHEW! Sorry -it's a bit lengthy of an explanation. So, I don't get to be on the phone, and, I get to have in home daycare for my son - which is still distracting when you have a 2 year old who likes to drum & run around. I am starting to think that working on site would be a better option. 
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 2/23/2009 11:47:23 AM
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I'm glad it will probably be Tuesdays and not Saturdays. It would make it hard for people who work M-F to get post office errands done if Saturdays were cut. And, you would lose your job too, wouldn't you? Yea it will loose them more business b/c people working m-f are unable to come and plus it would mean they would either do away with my job or change things around so we have another garnteed day or something..but yeah...
Lyrach, I know few people who also have the same job as you. I was talking to one of them the other day and she told me how she had to know every part in the body head to toe.
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 2/23/2009 3:01:54 PM
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When I was in GATE in school, we were in our own class of 30 and we learned at a faster rate, so we did not get bored in school. We did not go to a separate class at different times.
I think different schools do it differently.
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 2/23/2009 8:56:40 PM
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I was told we couldn't have a 'GATE' program at our school because you'd need to include students based on their grades, rather than IQ (ie, gifted) and that would make the other kids feel excluded.
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 2/24/2009 6:11:12 AM
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(((KYLIE)))
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 2/24/2009 10:47:54 AM
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Do OVER!
I thought I had to go into the plant today to apply for unemployment so I wore tighter pants so I could slip my coveralls on.
It is tomorrow.
So, I will need to get CHANGED to go into the plant because my other pants are too 'blousy' for coveralls.
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