Thursday evening I was driving the kids into the fairgrounds for the last night of the county fair and they saw a sign for the Army. They've asked questions about it recently and learned about people that choose to be a solider when they grow up.
That night they started talking about being whatever they want to be when they grow up, which I encouraged. Then they continued to say that they could be soldiers or policemen or firemen, or be nothing, like mommy.
I think I might have choked on my spit, or giggled or sat silently in shock for a moment.
I may still be on maternity leave for another week and a half, but I certainly haven't been doing nothing. So I asked a few questions to which they clarified their point.
Yeah, we can go to work all day and do nothing like you.
Awesome.
I tried to explain that I'm an underwriter, but I went through a formal 14 month training program and another 9 months of on the job training before I handled my own territory and I still didn't really know what I was doing in the complicated world of insurance! How on earth do you explain that to a kindergartener!?
I'll be making more of an effort to talk about what I do now.
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