What kind of jobs does everyone do...

I am going to be home the next few days....healing. Does anyone want to share with me their daily activities. There are so many people in the family and I have no idea what their daily activities consist of.

I will start. I am a fitness instructor. I study programs, learn programs, make lesson plans and teach. I teach eight whole hours a week.

I teach BTS programs which stand for Body Training Systems. Every three months there is a big "launch" at the gyms. Everything revolves around the "launch". You eat, sleep and breathe it. February 3rd the Old Bridge gym is "launching". That means that all BTS programs will be changed and will stay the same for three months until the next "launch".

I teach in the Hazlet facility, Old Bridge facility and I will start at Scotch Plains the second week of February.

My domestic skills stink, like Katie. I can do certain things. I just hate doing them. I would rather create an appropriate lesson plan for a pilate class than make a meal. I just have no interest in it anymore. This is a personal struggle for me.

Last year I worked with children, this year with adults. I have to say that there is an ease to working with adults. Teaching is about the topic, and not how well you can lay out a boundary and maintain it.

Last year I was able to teach with relative comfort...without so much study. I knew the topic like the back of my hand. This year I find that information gathering is high on my list. You can bluff your way through teaching children (to a degree). But adults are right there to pick up on your inconsistencies and report you to the director.

My job brings with it personal growth. And that I like. It is not just a matter of serving others, but a matter of personally gaining abilities and confidence that I may not have possessed just a few short months ago. The Bayshore gyms require their instructors to constantly train, constantly grow and constantly improve. And at my age and developmental stage, I am more than happy to sign on to a job like that.

I have spent my last two days in bed studying so that when my knee is ready to work...I can just plug right in. I am hoping to launch with a five minute track on Saturday in Old Bridge. It is a core track that requires the legs to do nothing more than lift and sissor. I can already do that, so I am hoping to just join in with what I can do.

I would love to hear what others do. What they like about it and what they don't like. I would like to know how their daily tasks fulfill them or how much they hate them.

Joe always knows that if a meal doesn't appear on the table...he has the option of eating my weekly lesson plans. That is about all I can offer. I am just so bad. (I need to go to Uganda and take a few lessons with Katie.)

Gina