talk about boo-hoo on parade. Any other excuses you would like to throw out why you are lazy? I am a single dad working 50+ hours a week, pulling all nighters working on the weekends and raising two kids while cooking for them every night and teaching them responsibilities. Sounds to me like you want a pity party. Go join the DEM party.
I was cheerfully greeted and had my order rung up by a woman who had to be in her seventies today, in a fast food restaurant. She was happy to be there, made her life so much better to have the extra income. We talked. I felt bad for her when I first saw her, and felt something akin to proud of her by the time I left. You do what you have to do, and she’s doing it in good spirits. No point in getting down or complaining, it only makes matters seem worse.
You seem to be outvoted on this thread.
I have not engaged in what you are pleased to refer to as “a pity party,” sir. I said I made a choice to put my children first, before a lucrative career. I chose jobs from which I wouldn’t get fired if I took days off to attend to a child who had a serious chronic illness. I didn’t make as much money as the men and women who had supportive spouses or no children. It was simply a matte of priorities, not a complaint.
It’s very difficult for everybody else to figure out why you’re so resentful about that. I’m not asking you or anyone else for a penny. Kindly note my tag line: I raised a US Marine, I did it without a lick of help from anybody, and I’m damn proud of the way I conducted my vocation as a mother.
And by the way, before you accuse me of being lazy with my jobs and home business: while you’re working fifty hours a week and pulling all-nighters, who is watching your children? It’s nice if there’s a family member who is prepared to spend the night with them. We aren’t all lucky enough to have living family members to do that. (Surely you aren’t leaving them alone, of course.)
Those statements are uncalled for sir.
Can’t imagine why you’re single at your age!