Handling those who dont understand
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It is hard with kids, possibly in a different way, I don't know..... I have 3 kids, I started my BA when my youngest was 11 months, they are now 17, 16 and 6 years old and trying to give them all they need while at the same time running a house (I also have a menagerie) making sure I don't ignore my husband, doing my p/t RA position and a f/t PhD can sometimes feel like utter hell. Nothing gets the 100% it deserves and so you feel that you're letting everything down that little bit and pulled in a million ways at once. I have got a bit fed up sometimes with young students (no offence!!!) especially at BA when I had a baby moaning they were tired and worn out - I wanted to scream lmao - my baby never slept, no more than 2 hours at a time and never during the day til she was gone 3, I had the other two young as well and I look back and wonder quite how I did it - still can't work it out lol.
I love the mechanic analogy - very good :-) Not sure it works with my discipline lol but yeh, 'doctors' work very hard, they go through a lot of training (not as much as we do though) and I have utter respect for them but I get really cross when my work and my (hopefully) eventual title is poo-pooed on the grounds that I'm not going to be a 'real' dr. My grandmother told me the other day that I shouldn't even call myself 'Dr' when I finally graduate as I'd be taking the title from people who deserve it!:-s She isn't someone you can ever reason with, and quite frankly I wouldn't want to bother, she's bigotted and an inverse snob and keeps telling me that its time I stopped wasting my time and everyone elses and accepted my place and got a job in Tesco - they have some going you know :-s It used to really upset me even many years back when I was at school and she asked me what I wanted O Levels for... but now, well, I really don't care!
It is hard with kids, possibly in a different way, I don't know..... I have 3 kids, I started my BA when my youngest was 11 months, they are now 17, 16 and 6 years old and trying to give them all they need while at the same time running a house (I also have a menagerie) making sure I don't ignore my husband, doing my p/t RA position and a f/t PhD can sometimes feel like utter hell. Nothing gets the 100% it deserves and so you feel that you're letting everything down that little bit and pulled in a million ways at once. I have got a bit fed up sometimes with young students (no offence!!!) especially at BA when I had a baby moaning they were tired and worn out - I wanted to scream lmao - my baby never slept, no more than 2 hours at a time and never during the day til she was gone 3, I had the other two young as well and I look back and wonder quite how I did it - still can't work it out lol.
I love the mechanic analogy - very good :-) Not sure it works with my discipline lol but yeh, 'doctors' work very hard, they go through a lot of training (not as much as we do though) and I have utter respect for them but I get really cross when my work and my (hopefully) eventual title is poo-pooed on the grounds that I'm not going to be a 'real' dr. My grandmother told me the other day that I shouldn't even call myself 'Dr' when I finally graduate as I'd be taking the title from people who deserve it!:-s She isn't someone you can ever reason with, and quite frankly I wouldn't want to bother, she's bigotted and an inverse snob and keeps telling me that its time I stopped wasting my time and everyone elses and accepted my place and got a job in Tesco - they have some going you know :-s It used to really upset me even many years back when I was at school and she asked me what I wanted O Levels for... but now, well, I really don't care!
Must be grandma from hell week or something...my exmother in law-grandma of my children rang me today to spread some of her special toxic cheer around! I won't hijack this post or go into the gruesome details but wow...some old ladies just really know how to suck the joy out of everything don't they!
