I quit my job

[AirHostess]

Yes, as of next week I will no longer be a flight attendant.

I am moving back home but my parentals aren't exactly pleased as my new job as a hospital administrator doesn't pay that well and isn't exactly a wonderful job. I don't know what else to do though! My house lease ran out near the airport and I was planning to leave flying anyway.

My parents are annoyed that I didn't discuss the options with them and said I should have stayed at the airline till I found a job I really wanted to do as the pay was good at least.

:shrug::blink:

[katie kaboom]

that's easier for them to say, but you have to do what's best for you. they'll get over it. the job market is tough these days. tell them to be happy you're working at all. so many people aren't.

[Killer Bees]

Parents don't realise that when their kids grow up to be adults they can't expect to be kept in the loop any more. I stopped asking my mother's permission for stuff when I was 18.

Trouble is, very few people can look at your decisions from what's best for your life. They always say, "if it were me...." But that argument never works. Different lives, different choices.

[COMINATCHA]

Your quitting? Why??

Sorry but it's just that I remember how excited you were about the prospect of living your dream of becoming a flight attendant, and when it came true you sounded over the moon about it.

You can tell me to mind my own business, but did something go wrong?
Wasn't what you thought it would be?

[AirHostess]

Oh I just really dislike the hours, the hard work, flying, passengers etc

It's a shame cos I've always wanted to do it but it's not what I thought it would be.

I dread going into work sometimes.

[blas]

Gotta love parents, right *eyeroll*

That wasn't a slam at my Dad, he's supported every decision I've ever made, realizing that growing up, you need to be given the freedom to make your own choices, suffer the consequences of your own bad choices, and to explore new areas in life, and to eventually settle for what you love.

Just wish the other parent would stop trying to tell me what to do so much.

Katie, your parents will just have to get over it. They must love you very much, though, otherwise they wouldn't be allowing you to live with them. If they were really that upset and disappointed with you, they would have said "sorry, no!" and left it at that.

[Andara Bledin]

It's a shame when you finally get your dream job and find out it's really a nightmare.

^-.-^

[AirHostess]

Just a quick log in the crew room at the airport. I have been offered a job as a medical Human Rescources Officer in the same hospital but on better pay :)

I have just had a vile flight so so so happy to be leaving!

My parents are fine now as I have a good job (starting next week) and I'm going to start studying for my English degree again. :)

Once I am home I will come on and catch up with you but after my horrible day I just need to go to bed.

:angel:

[Crazeyal]

Well good for you! Glad things are looking up! One comment on the people who rolled their eyes at your parents... If you accept help, they get to comment. Know I'm siding with "the enemy" a bit... But... You ARE moving back in with them. My Father and I have a bit of the same relationship. He offers help and I accept the advice with a bitten lip and a throbbing vein in my neck. BECAUSE HE ALWAYS OFFERS ADVICE... asked for or not...

I try and take a deep breath, and remind myself that he's just trying to help. I gently let him know when he's pushing too hard (being annoying) and he flip flops between understanding and getting his feelings hurt.

I try and compromise. I ask his advice about two things all the time. Things he can physically help me with, and things he knows nothing about. If it's physical, I let him "show me" until he gets tired and lets me do it. If he doesn't know it, he usually backs off.

Usually..

[blas]

My parents have offered me an "out" of this apartment with this horrible roomate situation for months. Nearly every day they offered to let me move back in. They understood my situation with him and knew it hasn't been the best thing on my mental well being or the safest place for me to be.......but my mother can never pass up a chance to take a verbal swing at me.

A very nice offer, but I knew if I caved, I'd lose my indepedence and I'd hear it every day from my mom "What did we tell you about moving out? Didn't we tell you how hard it would be to live with other people?" "Didn't we tell you what would happen if you moved in with a BOY?" "Didn't we tell you what would happen if you left us?"

I should have put more thought into it and should have known my roomate was dating before I moved in. If I would have known he was going to move out but keep coming back, I wouldn't have done it. But it's been a life experience for me, and I've learned I'm better off living alone.

I won't make that mistake again.

That was my little tidbit answer to the parent thing.

[Crazeyal]

Yeah..

I have a bit of a unique situation. My Dad lives with ME! He retired a few years ago, after selling the family business (which was SUPPOSED to go to me..:/ long story...) He drove my sister crazy (In his defense, she's a little nuerotic and standoffish to his eternal advice giving.. a bad match) until he wanted to move out of the area. He was GOING to move out to California to be near my brother. But A) California is worse in the exspense area than NJ... FAR worse for retirees. B)My Brother's an ass. He'd driven my father bonkers while attending college, so much so my Father nearly threw him out. I could easily see my dad being left alone at the other side of the country.

Now he pays me rent, in the home he helped me buy. He easily could have said it was half his house... But my dad just made a present of the down payment (along with my wife's parents... Good people on both sides of the family :) )

Soooo I tolerate the advice giving, make sure that I let him help when I'm planning projects, and include him in events. When I need space or if he's being too pushy, I let him know. So far it's working. He just wants to be needed and included.

But I have GOT to install an intercom.. If he walks in on me in my underwear ONE MORE FRIKKEN TIME...

[Rapscallion]

But I have GOT to install an intercom.. If he walks in on me in my underwear ONE MORE FRIKKEN TIME...

Why doesn't he wear his own?

Rapscallion

[Crazeyal]

Washing machine mishap...

Don't ask..