Job That Could Lead Somewhere.

All this talk about Jobs paying the bills, reminds me of our last-born. Although she has her basic university degree in Psychology, she is a long way from the requirements she needs to work in her desired field and thus needs more courses & training. All of which cost money, which she/we no longer have. To help pay her bills and get some money for these extra courses, she was working as a Shop assistant and junior manager at basic wages for a long time. Recently she changed jobs and now has a better paying job more closely aligned to the field she wants to eventually work in. It is not the same field, but it is a foot in the door to perhaps leading to her desired field, and paying a lot better.

Instead of being the un-official manager of a $2 Variety Store, she now works at an outer Melbourne campus of one of Melbourne’s Universities. She is now, a research and teaching assistant for the Senior Lecturer of one of their Departments. Which one? I was afraid you would ask that!

I will tell you the Title, just as soon as I find where I have written it! Here it is: She now works for the head of the “Proposed Centre for Organisational Research and Psychology (CORP) in the School of Psychology, Psychiatry & Psychological Medicine”. (Try pronouncing or spelling all those words quickly!)

So you may now be wondering what we call her? Well we call her by her long-standing family title. She may have a new fancy handle, but she is still our last-born. Our Baby! So we will continue to call her by her Birth name, even though most others have long shortened that a bit.

What about you? Do you sometimes get confused when friends (or family) of long standing suddenly get new titles or jobs, and you wonder as to how you should now treat them?

At work and out in public, you probably will have to treat them with the respect and dignity their title and position requires, not to please them, but so as not to embarrass them in front of their work mates. This is what we will do, but at home, she will always be our Baby and treated accordingly. Now I will see if I can get my baby to shout her dear old Dad a cup of coffee. Bye: Walter