When I wake up very early in the morning and be in the middle of a discussion during work hours from about 20 years ago, I have to wonder, now what? This time I turned over and went back to sleep only to wake hours later in the same type of work conversations... So I began to explore...what's happening in life that has brought back PTSD nightmares--remembering the confusion and anger that led me to realize I had no choice but to retire, earlier than I'd planned. I had been fortunate in my career, loving the work I was doing as I moved from office to office, getting promoted, better pay... Until I was promoted into a position that was beyond the clerical roles there... To a boss who taught me what was needed to centralize classroom scheduling and management for an entire campus... Something you must learn on the job, since there is no training, at least at that time... Again, I was loving it, gaining knowledge, working with faculty and deans and the Provost for Instruction, wi...
By the time I was promoted to Associate Director of Facilities Planning and Management, which I later learned had been negotiated by my former boss, Bill Campbell, Director, I'd had over 30 years in the administration of West Virginia University. The last years of that career were changed by...white men seeking power... until I went into Job Burnout trying to deal with men who knew nothing about my job... It is now Day !?! (Who knows how long it will last?) of the shutdown, with soldiers not being paid, their family begging for exempting them from the closure... With more people being fired, with the democratic party being blamed for not being willing to support a decision to take away health care to millions... Do they really think anybody other than these White Supremacists Men think we believe their shenanigans, their lies, their game playing?!? I've been listening to Frank Shaeffer who says that he's an atheist who prays... I liked the fact that he is willing to share...