Max A. Franks's blog

In need of a mind dump.

So, I made the horrible mistake of taking my employment for granted again.  It's something I'm guilty of in pretty much every position I've ever held.  I get comfortable.  I perform at a level that makes me believe that I'm not able to be let go.  Thats what it boils down to.  I take for granted that others think very differently from me.  I really enjoyed working with some of the people I worked with, but at the same time hated to see things that bothered me to the point of yelling and bitching at people. 

I'm really quite blessed.  I'm spending copious amounts of quality time with my children.  I just don't get that possibility when I'm working full time.  Grady is almost 1 (Thursday), Sawyer is turning 4 in a few months, Marcus just turned 15, Jarod just turned 12.  My brood is growing up and I was missing a bunch of it by working so much.  I guess this could be considered a "break".  I've applied for a bunch of positions all over the Bay Area and gotten like 2 responses. 

I must say that being a mother that stays home full time with children in tow is such a difficult job.  Laundry, Shopping for food, Cooking, Cleaning, Feeding a baby, Feeding a toddler with a hollow leg, running a full time self employed business at the same time, transporting older kids to activities, preschool, holy shit!  How does she do it??  I haven't a clue...but I'm highly impressed that the kids haven't mutinized or simply disappeared yet.  I'm simply balancing looking for full time work and helping with the house and kids and I'm exhausted all the time!  I am taking this opportunity to give my wife some serious props and kudos.

Some recent ideas:  a website/company where people that have ideas that can help make the world a better place can share their ideas and those that are blessed with the funds to give can choose to fund those ideas.  I haven't even searched the net to see if this already exists, but if it doesn't wouldn't that be a freaking great idea??  One could employ people to follow through withthe funding and then check back from time to time to make sure the idea originator wasnt' scamming.

Pause for searching net for said idea....(play jeapordy theme or something)  Soooo, there are plenty of people wanting to help make the world a better place, but I don't see one particular site that stands out from the rest.

I'm being summoned to bed.  I'm hoping to do this mind dump thing more so I can look back on my previous thoughts and reflect on them. 

Thanks!

My mom mentioned her perspective about my kids that were really cool; Marcus has a heart of gold and has endless bits of patience, Jarod is very much like me and always wants to "help out" and is very matter of fact, and Sawyer cried for his Daddy before he went to sleep, something he just hasn't done before with her. Poor guy missed naps all weekend long, had to deal with a cold, and go figure Dad wasn't there to read How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight, or Oh, The Places You'll Go, or Goodnight Moon.
It was nice to do a small catch up with my Mom. I've taken her for granted my whole life and I'm finally realizing what an unbelieveable blessing she's been to me....at 34. sheesh.
Not a bad way to start off a new blog.

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