Oh. You would not have been able to handle my last job. And I would not blame you.
I've never been particularly squeamish anyway, and had had jobs that involved cleaning kid puke already (camp counselor and the like). But I managed a large urban touristy bookstore. It was super fun! Being higher up, it was a lot of challenging work with good pay. Major contracts with elite universities, major libraries, and huge conventions! We had special events with major celebrities several times a week! Really exciting!
But! It was so busy. Good thing overall, right? We were super successful! But people puked like crazy. Overheated tourists? Aforementioned little kids? Drunk or bulemic college students? Exhausted Boston marathoners? Stray junkies? You name them, they puked. I was lucky to go a day without cleaning it up. In most ways it was a high powered job that looks good on my resume But I got so inured to the puke scrubbing it got to be the worst part wasn't actually cleaning it up, it was listening to the verbal abuse from the people who were screaming at us while we were down on my hands and knees because we had to temporarily close the super busy bathroom. I am glad I got blood tests at the start of the pregnancies, though, to make sure I didn't acquire some strange disease. That's why I was questioning your husband's odd boogie addition, because I WAS the person on the other end, lol.
Cleaning up my kid's puke twice a year truly is nothing now. But sadly I'd be in that "don't mind" stage whether I ended up having them or not.
Totally not questioning your child free status, but do or have you had pets? I find cat and dog puke much grosser than my kids both because their food is generally grosser overall, and because there is something grosser about the non-human aspect.
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Date: 2012-09-13 06:06 pm (UTC)I've never been particularly squeamish anyway, and had had jobs that involved cleaning kid puke already (camp counselor and the like). But I managed a large urban touristy bookstore. It was super fun! Being higher up, it was a lot of challenging work with good pay. Major contracts with elite universities, major libraries, and huge conventions! We had special events with major celebrities several times a week! Really exciting!
But! It was so busy. Good thing overall, right? We were super successful! But people puked like crazy. Overheated tourists? Aforementioned little kids? Drunk or bulemic college students? Exhausted Boston marathoners? Stray junkies? You name them, they puked. I was lucky to go a day without cleaning it up. In most ways it was a high powered job that looks good on my resume But I got so inured to the puke scrubbing it got to be the worst part wasn't actually cleaning it up, it was listening to the verbal abuse from the people who were screaming at us while we were down on my hands and knees because we had to temporarily close the super busy bathroom. I am glad I got blood tests at the start of the pregnancies, though, to make sure I didn't acquire some strange disease. That's why I was questioning your husband's odd boogie addition, because I WAS the person on the other end, lol.
Cleaning up my kid's puke twice a year truly is nothing now. But sadly I'd be in that "don't mind" stage whether I ended up having them or not.
Totally not questioning your child free status, but do or have you had pets? I find cat and dog puke much grosser than my kids both because their food is generally grosser overall, and because there is something grosser about the non-human aspect.