Growing up
My nineteen year old daughter is living by herself, far away from home. For the first time in her life she has found work; in a retail store and also a coffee place. Her first days at the retail store has been frustrating and de-motivating for her and she is glad that when she goes to work at the coffee place all the people know what they came in for.........coffee! At the retail store, despite her feeling that she did her best in being positive, smiling and serving customers without hassling them to buy, her managers were not pleased with her miniscule sales at the end of her shift. She did not push for her name to be on the sales slips!
I am naturally proud that she found herself jobs that entails serving people as I believe that this teaches us a lot of skills that can be universally applied in our life. As a father I want my children to be happy always but I feel that this "tough" learning experience will serve her well in the future. I can only offer support and advice from a long distance.
Her experiences now is a part of her growing up process. I feel that I too am growing up as I have to learn not to worry about her and believe that she will handle the situation well and come out of these experiences positively and with new skill sets. I can only hope that I have been a good enough teacher and father in providing guidance and tools that she can now use to make her own tentative way in blazing her own path in this wonderful life.
I am naturally proud that she found herself jobs that entails serving people as I believe that this teaches us a lot of skills that can be universally applied in our life. As a father I want my children to be happy always but I feel that this "tough" learning experience will serve her well in the future. I can only offer support and advice from a long distance.
Her experiences now is a part of her growing up process. I feel that I too am growing up as I have to learn not to worry about her and believe that she will handle the situation well and come out of these experiences positively and with new skill sets. I can only hope that I have been a good enough teacher and father in providing guidance and tools that she can now use to make her own tentative way in blazing her own path in this wonderful life.
posted by firefly at 11:22 PM
1 Comments:
I hadn't thought about that first job at American Eagle in a long time! Yes it was awful and thankless, and I'm very glad to be out of it, but I did learn to appreciate sales staff at stores and be nicer to them! Service industry really is pretty fun and I do enjoy making someone's day a little easier, or more interesting, just not in sales!
Post a Comment
<< Home