I can't get a blue line on this, the cursor thingie, for some reason. Oh well, I will get used to this iPad, which lets me lie in bed with a glass of wine while working (!)
David went to college for music management which would have enabled him to keep me in my old age - NOT. He could not manage accounting (can't blame him for that as I couldn't either) but worked part time at HMV so when he dropped out, he moved to the big city and thought he would get a job with the same company there.
David is a very charming young man, but not all (me included) are blinded by it. He did not get a good reference from previous HMV so was jobless for a while. We subbed him, reluctantly. Then he to the most fantastic one, with an adventure travel company. In just a bit more than a year he went from part time temp to full time permanent, and one of the benefits is one of their trips free, including airfare, per year.
So last year it was Peru, going up the Amazon, and Macchu Picchu. This year it was going to be Vietnam and I think Cambodia or Thailand.
He has told us he is going to quit the job, go to California for a music festival, then on to Guatemala for a volunteer stint. Of course, perhaps in a bid to touch my (financial) heart, he says " following in your footsteps, mom" as I did a volunteer abroad thing early January.
we have not and will not offer him money. In a bid to get him to keep his once in a lifetime job, I have offered to pay for a trip to Guatemala in return for a commitment from him to stay in his job for a minimum 2 years, when he has enough vacation days. O
Sorry for the errors in this, I am just not used to it yet. It is NOT the wine as I haven't had any yet.
I will try to keep it short. I think due to David's early years, when all the people with power in his life were female, foster mothers and social workers, he does not like working for women unless they are taken in by his easy charm. He was working for a woman with the travel company who loved him and another promotion was in the cards, but she has gone on mat leave and the new woman can, I think, see through him and (sadly) see underneath. No promotion. No more happy happy David. So he's just walking away.
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David went to college for music management which would have enabled him to keep me in my old age - NOT. He could not manage accounting (can't blame him for that as I couldn't either) but worked part time at HMV so when he dropped out, he moved to the big city and thought he would get a job with the same company there.
David is a very charming young man, but not all (me included) are blinded by it. He did not get a good reference from previous HMV so was jobless for a while. We subbed him, reluctantly. Then he to the most fantastic one, with an adventure travel company. In just a bit more than a year he went from part time temp to full time permanent, and one of the benefits is one of their trips free, including airfare, per year.
So last year it was Peru, going up the Amazon, and Macchu Picchu. This year it was going to be Vietnam and I think Cambodia or Thailand.
He has told us he is going to quit the job, go to California for a music festival, then on to Guatemala for a volunteer stint. Of course, perhaps in a bid to touch my (financial) heart, he says " following in your footsteps, mom" as I did a volunteer abroad thing early January.
we have not and will not offer him money. In a bid to get him to keep his once in a lifetime job, I have offered to pay for a trip to Guatemala in return for a commitment from him to stay in his job for a minimum 2 years, when he has enough vacation days. O
Sorry for the errors in this, I am just not used to it yet. It is NOT the wine as I haven't had any yet.
I will try to keep it short. I think due to David's early years, when all the people with power in his life were female, foster mothers and social workers, he does not like working for women unless they are taken in by his easy charm. He was working for a woman with the travel company who loved him and another promotion was in the cards, but she has gone on mat leave and the new woman can, I think, see through him and (sadly) see underneath. No promotion. No more happy happy David. So he's just walking away.
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