thankful thursday: being employed

effective 4:30pm today

i will be officially 

"unemployed"

the norman veteran's center

it's a hard concept to grasp

i have been working 

since i was sixteen

i enjoy working

often holding multiple jobs at one time

i am often described as a 

work-aholic

when we received orders to italy

one of my first thoughts were 

"were will i work"

"what will i do?"

then i found out 

jobs are limited,

 hard to come by

and

honestly

the idea of not working

was 

kind of exciting
laying around eating bon-bon's, shopping, staring in the "real housewives of italy" show
then scary
how can we live on one income? how will i contribute to the "household"

now 

i just dread it

in work i find purpose

self worth

i enjoy my job

and 

i am good at it

so today

as i say goodbye to a job 

that i hold dear to my heart

and coworkers who have become friends

i am thankful

for the norman veteran's center 
who've kept me employed the past three years
tolerated my crazy ideas
and allowed me to grow as a social worker
and
a person.