Lazy

I once had a boss tell me that I was lazy.  She said it straight up, "Q, you are lazy."  I was so surprised because I thought that, given the nickname she had given me, (after the wacky inventor character "Q" in all of the 007 movies) she had really liked me and the work I had done for her and our office.  Then she followed up with, "Q, laziness is the mother of invention."  Aahh.  I see.  It's true.  I am lazy.  I am always looking for a faster, easier, more efficient way of doing things.  I love the three-E mantra: efficiency, economy, effectiveness that we studied in my Master's program courses.  I was always showing that old boss shortcuts on her computer and trying to tweak systems to make them run better and more easily.  So, fast forward several years to now.  I have a job that I really love, but I am lazy and I have gradually come to a realization.  This job of mothering cannot be reinvented, streamlined, paired-down, or shortened to a couple of key-strokes.  It is the same job that it was a thousand years ago.  It is inefficient, uneconomical, and totally impossible to determine its effectiveness.  I have had at least a dozen different jobs, some really tough ones, and seriously it is the hardest job I've ever had.  No performance reviews, (unless you count a purple-faced melt down a performance review) no raises, no accolades, no certificates on the wall.  Do I miss those things?  Yeah, some days.  I'm really proud of my past and my accomplishments but I am more proud of my babies, and my home, and my family.  I think I will keep this job for a while.