Di, at Pensitivity101, is our host for Share Your World each week. Here are her SYW questions for this first Monday of the fourth quarter of 2023
1. When you were a child, did you have your friends round for tea even if it wasn’t your birthday? Were you invited to stay to tea at a friend’s house??
This must be a British thing because I’ve never in my entire life had anyone over for tea nor have I ever been invited to tea at someone else’s home. I don’t even like or drink tea.
2. What was your first job in adult life?
I’m going to reference my first full-time job after graduating from college. I was hired as a managent trainee for the local Blue Cross & Blue Shield plan (not-for-profit health insurance company). I spent my first year making three month stints at four different departments before being assigned my first role as a supervisor of a customer service center. I spent almost a decade with that company in ever larger roles before moving on to my next “adventure.”
3. Do you enjoy shopping (food, clothes, gifts, etc.)?
No. I consider any kind of shopping to be a chore and to the extent I can do it online, I will.
4. What was the best bargain you ever got?
I don’t know that I’m a “bargain” shopper. If I need something, I buy it. If I want something and can afford it, I buy it. But I guess, in hindsight, one of my best “bargains” was when I paid way under market price for a fixer-upper house and eight years later sold it three times what I paid for it.
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That was a good bargain!
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Yes it was!
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👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
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Sounds like an interesting job.
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Interesting thing on ‘tea’. As well as a drink, tea here in the UK is a snack of sandwiches and cake or perhaps an evening meal like sausages and chips. Some call that dinner, yet others have dinner around 1pm. Mealtimes can be so complicated! Thanks for joining Fandango.
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We have breakfast, lunch, and dinner, although some call dinner supper.
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You can come here for tea anytime!
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I worked in the Blue Cross office in Boston for five years, one of the longer jobs I ever had. But I didn’t have an office there. I work entirely at home through a modem. I wonder if we were there at the same time.
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Probably not. I worked there in the days before PCs and modems, from mid 1969 through mid 1979.
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I am thinking of putting more money into this house to fix it up… but can’t afford a lot. Wish I was able to do the work myself. Next step new windows in the basement… that will probably run me a small fortune! Ha, ha! But also thinking of selling down the line… would add a lot to the property.
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