Are you ever frustrated at work?

What "skill" was she trying to demonstrate?

@TheHorse How to assist someone from a bed to a walking position. The bed was far too low and there was no way on earth that anyone could stand from that position let alone an aged person. She was quite inept. (One of my remits is moving and handling training) :-)

@garymarsh6 Got it. What compelled her to "show off"? Was she anxious about being watched?

@TheHorse ....Well, I for one am glad to have you in 'the trenches' helping these needy kids.

I'd have to say I mostly enjoy my work with disadvantaged kids. But it can be stressful. I spend a lot of time in "rough" neighborhoods. Sometimes adult clients go back to using, or bad things happen to kids I worked with. At some point, I'll hit my saturation point.

@celticeagle Thank you. I think I'd be bored if I were behind a desk all of the time.

@TheHorse Lol! you must be great at stats! I contemplated doing psychology but got scared off by the stats!

@TheHorse ain't there just two tests, t-test for the significance and chi-squared for number? Tbh I hate stats and never understood it, it made very little sense to me lol

@Drosophila It's really pretty straightforward. And now computers do most of the figgerin'. You just have to know which statistical test is the right one to apply.

I was amazed by what the teachers had to deal with at the schools I visited in Oakland.

I'm not surprised. It's not fun not being able to speak freely. And it's no fun when you can tell you're not being spoken with freely.

That sounds frustrating. I take it your boss is mostly interested in the "bottom line," and is not someone you can talk to?

@Hannihar What kind of business is this?

@TheHorse They are not my bosses. They are the higher ups that work at the place and decide things and they do not pay attention to me and do not care why I am there. I am also there to make money for them but I guess because it is not lots that I contribute they do not see it that way. They forget what it is like on the bottom. I am self-employed and have been selling there for 11 years and that does not mean anything either to them. One time the big boss told me they do not like fairs in the building and I am one person selling things and the only one now. So, I thought I would be out but had to go downstairs and nobody really knew I was there and someone put a petition together for me to go back upstairs and a letter went up and the next time I was upstairs again. I do not have anyone to help me this time. I could not believe that many people cared whether I was there or not. I wanted to do a video on what I sell and it did not do it so good but someone said something very special and it made me feel good. I guess people do miss me when I am not there. I really want to go more in the direction of online and not having to go out and sell so much.