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Can you think of a time when you had more responsibility than you could handle?
Responsibilities. We all have them in varying degrees and they change as we age. The question we are posing today is about feeling overwhelmed in those responsibilities. Have you ever felt that way? Ellen and Pam have – scroll down to see when. There was a time in my professional career when I was promoted from programmer to Programming Manager. Three programmers and an assistant now reported to me and while I felt 100% capable of handling this new position and all that it entailed, there were certain things that it added to my life. Extra hours each week were devoted to the managerial/admin duties that came with having people…
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Was there a chore you really hated doing as a child?
Want to see what we hated? Just click on our names above the tree. Care to share your chore responsibilities as a child and whether you loved or hated doing whatever you were assigned? Scroll down to comment. When I was in elementary school, my mom started teaching Ellen and me about household chores. While we always had to help pick up and keep our own rooms clean, this was about the time that we were assigned specific jobs on the groundfloor. Because I was four years older than Ellen, my job was, of course, more difficult. We lived in a very large center chimney colonial that was built in 1776, a…