Wise Ladies

Hello Everyone: Today I'm feeling grateful for a couple of people at work, who helped me put things into perspective. The first person helped me work through an upsetting situation. On Wednesday evening, around closing, the registers started crashing again. I didn't know this until some of some of my co-workers told me about it. I was in the process of closing the register in my department. I told everyone, trying to clock out, to use the second register so I could finish my task. Just as I was finishing, another co-worker landed on my desk demanding to use the register so he could ring up a customer. I tried to politely tell I couldn't do that and things got heated. At one point, he got close enough so I could see his pupils. This really upset me because I felt that I was in the right, Fortunately I had a couple of days off to work it out. Yesterday as I was getting ready to go in, I started to feel anxious, worried about the fallout. I got to work early so I had some time to kill. Before I clocked in, I needed to use the bathroom and, coincidently, ran into an older co-worker. She was kind enough to take a few minutes to listen to my anxiety and put the situation into sharp focus. She told me that the customer always wins and if he offered to close the register, I should've let because if anything goes wrong, it's on him. She also suggested that if it still bothered me, I should talk to him. I worked out a couple of scenarios in my head: The co-worker forgot about it or he went to my supervisor and said something. The first scenario came true. I found a couple of minutes to talk to him and told him that he did get too close. We're back to being work friends. The second co-worker that helped gain some perspective was a jewelry sales associate. I was coming down the elevator with her and mentioned how much I liked the diamond cuff bracelet she passed around during the morning meeting. We continued to chat after we got off the elevator, branching off into future aspirations. I casually mentioned that I was considering a couple of career paths museum work or teaching. She encouraged me to pursue teaching as a career. She wasn't the first person to tell me this. Over the past oh bloody heck four months I've had quite a few customers and co-workers tell me the same thing. You know the old saying if enough people tell you the same thing, it must be true, most of the time. Time to heed the call. There's no more avoiding it. Strangely, teaching is something my late mum tried to push me into. I think that's why I resisted it for so long. Yet I found that my most satisfying work situations have been in the classroom, except for the previous experience. We'll just leave it in the past. I'm not too keen on another graduate program because it requires a serious committment that I may not be able to make. A certificate program is more manageable for me. One of the local universities offers a wide variety of certificate programs, including teaching but I'd better get on it quickly because classes start in less than a month. Thank you universe for putting these wise ladies in my life at this time.