When do Transitions Stop

My topic has been transitions the last several blogs and both my work and I are going through transitions. I am theoretically retired, but I teach two to four classes as an adjunct depending upon the semester.

We are at that point in the school year where we are completing all our classes. I will be transitioning to a new schedule with no classes.

It's like when you were at college, and you just took your last exam and felt that there is something you should be doing but you have nothing to do. I do have a fallback plan, and it is called yard springtime yard work.

My students are also going through a transition. They are dealing with finding summer jobs or looking for full-time employment. They are stressing out about finding the right career path and being employed.

They have yet to learn that doing your best and taking your problems to God is the best way of dealing with these issues. Worrying about items you have no control over just stresses you out.

It would also help them if they put effort into completing their assignments and getting them in rather than waiting till the last day. It makes it more painful for those of us correcting and them as they struggle to get their assignments in.

Do I worry about my up coming transitions that will take place. Not really because I have a several irons in the fire as described in the the verse in Ecclesiastes 11:6.

"Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let your hands not be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well."

I think this verse tells us a lot of how to be successful. Always have multiple irons in the fire so to speak because you never know what will be successful. It could be one thing you are pursuing or multiple pursuits.

What are my irons, publishing a cookbook, being chairman of a toastmasters conference the end of April, finishing my photo album for 2024, rewriting a book I wrote many years ago.

When I went back to re-read it I realize that there was room for a lot of improvement. The item is preparing for the summer semester. I am hoping for 3 classes this coming summer so that my budget will be balanced.

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