[techtalk] career/family question

[Cynthia Dale]

Hey y'all  (:
Here's my plan:
I'm moving my mom in with me, and paying her a salary.  She already cleans
and cooks when she comes to my house, and right now, she is working as a
waitress, which is too hard for her at her age, and too stressful.  I
realize that not everyone gets along with their moms as well as I do, but
it would be wonderful to see a trend where we hire people who normally
experience age discrimination to do some of these jobs for us.  And it's a
huge problem in this country that we don't take care of our elderly, so
when the time comes that she needs my help, she'll be here already.  I
plan to build a "mother-in-law" house behind mine so that she'll have her
own space.  (:
Cindy

On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 moebius at ip-solutions.net wrote:

> Hey All,
>   Just my $.02. I just moved out here to Seattle about 6mo. ago. I don't
> have a car so if I want to go grocery shopping I have a few options. A:
> bum a ride B: Take mass transit C: don't keep any food in house or D: shop
> at homegrocer.com. Guess which one I chose.
>   I am not married/have a family. But I would imagine that if I did and
> going to work meant being able to provide more for the people I loved and
> hiring someone to help with the 'housework' would potentially give me more
> time to spend with them I don't think that it would be an issue. I guess
> it's guess how you look at it.
> 
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Magni Onsoien wrote:
> 
> > Tania Morell:
> > 
> > > :)  Strange topic for techtalk but.......
> > 
> > It really should be an important part of ANY organizer programme, so I
> > think we should discuss it further in order to make a spec and then get
> > it implemented ;)
> > 
> > > :(  Not so happy to admit...  sometimes I do sleep in
> > > my clothes.  And I think I've taken out the ironing
> > > board 3 times in the last 10 months and that was for
> > > job interviews. ..(It was a programmers habit too, I
> > > guess) That and I'm the least vain person I know. *no
> > > makeup*   *I hate shopping for clothes*  If I didn't
> > > feel unladylike going grunge all the time, I would.
> > 
> > I really think you should concider paying someone to do some cleaning
> > for you. Just think about it: do you hate housework so much that it
> > would be a relief to come home to a clean house with your clothes washed
> > and ironed - even if it means a bit less money?
> > Do me there is no doubt: I definitely will have someone to do cleaning
> > when I start working. I am actually concidering it now, too, when I am a
> > student working part time. I live with a geek guy who hates housework,
> > so my plan is to get someone to clean the floors, bathroom, dust etc
> > every forthnight and maybe also do the laundry for us. Of course we will
> > then split the expenses between us.
> > 
> > We also used to buy groceries etc via internet and get the shop to bring
> > it home for us. Costed a bit extra, but as we used to buy from a cheap
> > store the total amount was less than we would have paid to buy it from
> > our local store (we don't have a car, so it's hard to bring home juice,
> > milk, beer etc). 
> > 
> > > I cook to save money and to keep from blowing up like
> > > a baloon..   I mostly have breakfast in a can, though,
> > > but lately it's been McDonald's #3 with orange juice.
> > > hmmmm ..  yummy.
> > 
> > I eat bread for breakfast. Then I have bead and cheese and stuff at work
> > and make my lunch from that. At home we either make a pizza or we cook
> > something ourself, mainly consisting of 3-4 ingredients plus rice or
> > pasta. Cheap and usually pretty fast and with little trouble. It's
> > definitely possible to read mail/news, compile, program or read
> > newspapers while the food is preparing itself.
> > 
> > So, the technical side: all this should be implemented in some
> > electronic organizer stuff: reminders of calling the cleaner, automatic
> > submitting of the orders to the shop at the end of each Friday (so it's
> > delivered when one gets home from work)(the list should be the
> > "standard" stuff like milk, bread etc, plus the things you have added to
> > the list plus necessay ingredients to next weeks cooking (see later)),
> > proposals for menus for each day of week, which in time should compile
> > with the day's appointments. So if the organizer knows that you have a
> > meeting until late on Tuesday, it should propose (and maybe order) a
> > very simple meal, whil when it see that you have a day off on Sunday
> > plus that you are expecting your family for dinner then, it should make
> > sure an appropriate steak with vegetables is ordered. Etc. I mean, this
> > would be wonderful and really useful! Not only will the organizer make
> > sure you have time for your meetings etc, but it will also make sure you
> > have time for cooking (and the other home duties, which you of course
> > specify in it) afterwards.
> > 
> > Hm. I really NEED this. Now!
> > 
> > (And I think we maybe should move this to grrltalk now. So if someone
> > wants to discuss this further: send to grrltalk instead :))
> > 
> > 
> > Magni :)
> > -- 
> > ulimit is good for you.
> > 
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Cynthia J. Dale
Technical Engineer/FAQ maintainer
Red Hat, Inc.

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