Share with me your eke.

BeachHouseGuy

Eke? What career are you embarking on now? Do you love your job? eke :0

SeaOfTranquility

Spiritual journeyman.

Love it. No. But it's not so bad and has great benefits.
Although it can be challenging at times, it seems like there is nowhere else to be.

johnathan

Human Services Worker in a Rehabilitation center for 24 adults with intellectual disabilities and a Theraputic counsellor in a group home of 8 adults with intellectual disabilities.

I have been caring for the intellectually disabled for 13 1/2 years and couldn't imagine doing anything else.

BeachHouseGuy

eke!

AMH

I supervise after school care in the area of the city impacted by poverty, we are grant based instead of parent paid tuition. I also have my masters in teaching and am always looking at where I may go next in this field.

Spiritually, I decided to read a little with practice. I spend a year here and there with no reading spiritually.

ThailandTom

I do not have a job officially, but online poker player and freelance graphic designer.

Dandelion

I'm an artist, and I'm in it for the loooong haul. I make VERY LITTLE money from it, so I supplement it with part time work. I'm broke, but happy. I always knew it would be like this - no delusions, and I accept it fully, always have. I'm really glad I haven't gone down the road of studying something in order to get a good job in terms of money; too many people do that then end up miserable... their dreams fade to dust from the daily 9 - 5 grind, and that makes me feel sad. It means I can't go out *spending money* socially very much, but I can go out and be sociable and visit art galleries which are free, going for walks are free, going out for coffee is cheap and I love to have friends round and cook for them. I buy my clothes in charity shops usually these days, and shop at the cheapest supermarket there is and have learnt to cook from scratch - a great money saver! I'm REALLY broke right now and will have to reign my finances in even tighter come the new year. I'll still have my paints, my husband (who also works part time as he is pursuing his dreams of becoming a writer) and my cat, so there is nothing to grumble about My current part time job, which I've only just started is ok so far, can't grumble. It's a safe environment with polite people. From as far back as I can remember, about 4 I think, I have known I was going to be an artist. Job and career are usually associated with earnings! So, maybe people wouldn't view me as actually having a career, which I'm fine with, it is non the less 'what I do'.

ThailandTom

@Dandelion, I am in a kind of similar situation to you. I do not have a large amount of money, I often end up at the last part of the month with very little, but I am happiest when I don't. There was one time when I had not one penny, I had to eat one meal a day which my girlfriend would buy using her tips.

At high school I got Bs and Cs, but then went to college and uni to study graphic design. I left uni early because, well many reasons. But I am so so sooooo happy I am not stuck in the 9-5 rat race. So many people spent almost half of their lives in education, to get to a job, a job that they then many dislike and then they look forward to retiring. Nope, not the life for me I am afraid. I rarely play poker at the moment because I am focusing more on getting my graphic design side of my life 2 feet so it can walk somewhere.

You can often find that those high class business CEOs or managers are highly stressed or have lost their soul so to speak lol. I am fully content with not 'making it in life' as my parents and family would see it. To make it in life is to be content.