There is this great Brazilian songwriter called Zeca Pagodinho, that makes pagode and samba music. And there is a line from the music "Maneiras" that always get to me.
Mas digo sinceramente
Na vida, a coisa mais feia
É gente que vive chorando
De barriga cheia
But I tell you in sincerity
In live there's nothing uglier
Than people who keeps
Crying with their bellies full
Yep, I think there's nothing worst then see people complaining about this when their lives are very good. But that's exactly what I'll be doing here. So bear with me will you?
I have a great life. I love the greatest woman in the world (and I'm lucky she loves me back) I have two amazing good for nothing cats, I live in a nice neighborhood, were I have a few trees in the concrete jungle of São Paulo, and I have a nice job that pays me enough to live a comfortable live. (About 500 dollars a month, and that's pretty good in Brazilians standards)
But I'm really underpaid for the job I do: I'm the pedagogic coordinator of a school. So I'm the one who deals with students, parents, teachers, secretaries, comercial people, administration and the boss himself. I get my hand on almost everything in the school, and I stopped counting the extra hours after I hit the max allowed by the law (and that gets me to take random days off, so not that bad either)
And it's something I'm good at. I was able to get the school out of the Covid crises (my training to the teachers and my fast decision skill helped a lot) that we didn't loose so many students. And also my acting background helps me a lot in dealing with the parents, that always come with demands that if you really take their word for it, you'll go insane.
But I don't really like it.
It takes sooooo many hours from my day that I can't post here everyday, I can't practice juggle, study my thing, get my projects going. But I can't quit either, and not only for the money (of course a big part) but because this is the first time in my life that I have true responsibility over my stuff. Before I would just say "I'm done!" and leave, like I did so many times before, but now I have greater plans, and getting this set of skills is really important (organization, planning, deadlines, flexibility, mediation, etc)
Anyhow, this is just a rant post to say:
I don't think a lot of people care, but I felt like I had to say something. And yes, I know I'm crying with a full belly, but come on, are we humans or what?
Thanks for reading until here! I'll do my best to post and interact as much as I can!
Keep posting and keep shining beautiful people!
