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3 Cocktails In
Addicting conversations between friends who have been there, done that and still want more.
We are 3 friends who got this crazy idea to start a podcast based on our friendships, family lives, professional lives and experiences! This idea kept coming up in our conversations, especially after a cocktail or two or maybe three, and we finally decided to ACT on it!
We don't claim to be experts on too many things, but friendship? Well, we've got that down. We're making our way through major life changes, searching for work that excites us, busting myths associated with 'old' people, and keeping a sense of humor about it all.
Self employed, boss - CHECK
Mom, wife, single - CHECK
Rural, suburban, urban life - CHECK
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Amy, Kitty & Stacey
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3 Cocktails In
From Pajamas & Weekend Playtime To Professional Plans Made Years Ago
Ever found yourself caught in a whirlwind of holiday mix-ups and flexible schedules? Well, you're not alone! Stacey kicks off our latest episode with a riveting tale of her adventure at a Chris Stapleton concert, featuring stellar performances by Little Big Town and George Strait. (GS was the actual headliner, but not who she wanted to see the most :) Plus, an unexpected cameo by baby Sawyer adds an adorable twist to our chatter. From golfing escapades to a blissful day in pajamas, we reminisce about our holiday weekend and how the weather played a surprising role in shaping our plans. Kitty also proudly flaunts her new Gustavus alumni sweatshirt, adding some cozy charm to our conversation.
Have you ever wondered how mid-50s college graduates navigated their career paths? We get candid about the diverse journeys and experiences that have shaped our professional lives. We offer insightful advice on managing the anxiety of landing that “perfect” job post-graduation and stress the importance of taking those initial steps, even if they aren't passion-driven. Childhood dreams and early play activities make a nostalgic appearance as we share how our youthful aspirations influenced our career trajectories—and how integrating passions into our jobs can make all the difference.
What jobs would you absolutely dread doing? Inspired by our observations in high-end Vegas stores, we dive into a lively discussion about roles we’d rather avoid, like luxury store security guards. We touch on the mundane yet surprisingly appealing aspects of simpler jobs, like grocery cashiering, and the efficiency of self-checkout lanes. Our episode takes an exciting turn with thrilling tales from high-pressure environments, including emergency rooms and police ride-alongs. Wrapping up, we reflect on the significance of networking, patience, and personal growth in discovering one’s true passions and strengths. Tune in for a mix of laughter, nostalgia, and valuable life insights!
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Amy, Kitty & Stacey
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All right, never stop. I'm a tour de force running. Get me to the top.
Speaker 2:I don't need an invitation, hello hello, hello and welcome to another episode of three cocktails. And hello ladies, hello my friends, hello kitty. We are coming off memorial day weekend. We're actually recording tonight, on a monday night. This is gonna throw us all off this week.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes. Well, this will be twice this week that Stacey's been thrown off by the day. I know, usually it's only me, because my work week is Thursday to Monday. I never know what day it is.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, I did not know what day it was at all this week.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so why are we recording on a Monday night? Stace.
Speaker 4:Well, we're recording on a Monday night because usually we record on Wednesday or Sunday. But this week I'm going to blame my RC ladies because they messed me up because we always meet on Thursday night, except for this week we met on Wednesday. So when they were all saying, oh, see you tonight, see you tonight, I thought it was Thursday and that we wouldn't record on Thursday. But it was actually Wednesday when we were supposed to record. So, to say the least, I was confused, but it's okay.
Speaker 4:Oh well, I know. So then we were going to record last night and that didn't happen, so we're recording tonight, on a monday, on the holiday.
Speaker 3:It's a good thing we can be flexible, we are flexible yeah one of the few things that I'm flexible at well, you said it, yeah, you it.
Speaker 4:We didn't say it.
Speaker 2:So, yes, holiday weekend. There was a lot going on this weekend, Stacey how was Chris Stapleton?
Speaker 4:Chris Stapleton was good, it was kind of funny. I like Little Big Town too. So Little Big Town opened. The stadium was probably half full. I felt bad for them because evidently nobody but me, you know, wanted to go, and then I wanted to see Chris Stapleton, and the crowd got a little thicker, and then George Strait was the headliner, and so then the whole place was full. It was like wait a minute.
Speaker 3:George Strait was bigger than Chris Sta stapleton, odd I not for me.
Speaker 4:I left in the middle of george stapleton. Hey, I have a guest, can I? Is it a baby? It's a baby guest oh, hi soyer.
Speaker 3:Oh, he looks like madison I know look at this. Well, I wasn't saying that, I think the eye is still Is. Madison going to pop in Not just her hand. She could.
Speaker 4:From here to here is Madison. From here to here is Ty.
Speaker 2:That's cute.
Speaker 4:What a lover I got lots of snuggles, lots of fun today, lots of bouncing. He's a bouncer, okay, say bye-bye, say bye-bye, bye, bye. Can he smile?
Speaker 3:I know he smiles sometimes.
Speaker 4:Are you going to smile and be happy? Can he smile?
Speaker 3:He doesn't know what's going on, nah no.
Speaker 4:He's looking.
Speaker 1:Who knows what he's looking at, so he likes lights and stuff.
Speaker 4:So he's a goof, yeah. So we've had a busy day, busy weekend.
Speaker 2:Yeah, nice.
Speaker 4:Good, good, yeah, like I said, I'm fresh off the golf course. So how was that today? Yeah, we were going to golf this morning early, and then it started raining, so then we had to eat lunch and then we went golfing.
Speaker 2:So our day was kind of funny.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it was good All was good, good how about you, Amy?
Speaker 3:Well, I had the day off today, which I discovered on Friday that we weren't working today. So, as I mentioned, I either need to pay closer attention in meetings or find out where I find this information. Now, I do want to point out that the office staff works different, has different vacation roles than sales staff does. So I fully intended that I would be working today. But let me tell you, when I did my double check because I did double check this morning, because I thought I was supposed to work I thought I had New Year's Eve off, and at one o'clock I saw the message from the boss that said hey, if you guys aren't busy, you can go home at four.
Speaker 4:And I went oh, you weren't there to start with.
Speaker 3:No no, actually the message came out at like noon because I got there and I was like an hour and a half late, but I did work that day, so, um so I stayed in my pajamas all stinking day and actually put makeup on and did my hair, just for you guys. How nice.
Speaker 2:Yep, we've done that. When you record on Sundays Sunday, yeah, I know, and that's why, selfishly, I have asked if we can record on Wednesdays, because it is really nice to have one day that you, that you just know, I don't have to leave the house. If I don't have to leave the house today, I don't have to do anything right here, get ready.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but Wednesday is often my day, wednesday is my day off, so Kitty and I one of us is always putting up make on. So my shirt looks nice, but I'm wearing shorts. Yeah, I don't know why it matters, except it's going to be a long summer and I don't want to start with my summer wear yet. It's kind of. It's kind of a weird day today.
Speaker 4:It's kind of yeah, weird and rainy and yeah was it like in the 60s up there today, so we didn't get much higher than 70.
Speaker 2:Yeah I don, I don't know what it topped out at today, but when we went to breakfast this morning it was 54. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:That was chilly, thus my sweatshirt. I have to show you all my new sweatshirt this morning. So we went to Gustavus Commencement this weekend. This is the new alumni sweatshirt. Bo's girlfriend graduated on Saturday. It was so fun being down on campus and going through that experience as, even though I'm not a Gustavus mom um, and I was thinking about this because you know, we never I shouldn't say we, bill didn't go to Gustavus, but I never had that. Oh, I really hope he goes to Gustavus. If he had didn't go to Gustavus, but I never had that. Oh, I really hope he goes to Gustavus. If he had wanted to go to Gustavus, I would have supported him for sure. You know, like I'm sure it was with you, with Georgia, right, you didn't say please go to Gustavus, please go to Gustavus.
Speaker 3:I was shocked. Georgia chose Gustavus because what Georgia likes to do is art and theater, and Kevin and I went. That's where we met. We were in business and college in Gustavus in the late 80s quite a bit different than Gustavus now and I was really surprised she went. But she found her people. Gustavus does a phenomenal job. I have said that before. They do a really they do an excellent job. When it comes time to college visits, to matching you up with people who are interested in the same things, you are yeah, and so it shows kids that your people are there, and I I think that's one of the really great benefits of a small liberal arts college.
Speaker 2:Yeah, um, you know so. So it's just, it's been nice going through these last few years with Mackenzie, um Bo's girlfriend, because I kind of have somewhat felt like a Gustavus mom, even though I didn't have to pay tuition. There you go.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yes.
Speaker 3:Just like being a grandma, you can enjoy the baby without the the bills and the bodily aches, yep, and the midnight wake up calls yeah, so, okay.
Speaker 2:So it got me thinking and let's dive into into our topic today. It got me thinking about you know, it was many years ago that we all graduated, and here we now sit in our mid fifties. We all have successful careers. And here we now sit in our mid-50s we all have successful careers. It was very much a journey for each of us. We all had different steps in our journey to land where we are today. I don't like that analogy, but you know what I mean, and sometimes do you ever think back and wish that you had gone into something different? Yes, sure, yeah. So I'm looking at this football field of 450 students graduating from Gustavus with a liberal arts college degree, a large amount cum laude and summa cum laude by the way a large amount like, makes me wonder a little bit, but maybe that's another topic.
Speaker 4:I'd have something to add to that. Okay, all right, let's hit it, go ahead. Well, I've thought this for a while and I just drove by a town close to us which I would guess they're graduating class I'm going to guess less than a hundred and they had. They had. You know, the um, the word light up, word sign, sign, yep, by the school said they had 20 4.0 graduates and I'm thinking I just feel like 4.0 should be pretty, pretty small percentage, don't you think a 4.0, but I just feel like it's easy, it's easier to get these days than I think it used to be. I don't know, just my opinion. Yeah, I mean, it was a thought that crossed my mind.
Speaker 2:I think it did for Bill too. He't know, Just my opinion. Yeah, I mean, it was a thought that crossed my mind. I think it did for Bill too. He's like dang that's a lot.
Speaker 4:It's a lot.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Well, I don't know how schools are working now. I really Thank you. You're welcome. Me and my maths. Yeah, I can do math. Yeah, so she graduated in 22. Georgia graduated college in 18. Madeline graduated college in 17. I feel like even then, with the advent and the use of internet, as opposed to how we used to have to do it back in my day, you had to go to the library and find the damn book you know. Um, I do think that I'm going to say it's easier to find stuff. I think it I could. I'm sure that we'll get hate. Well, actually, if there's anybody in their twenties that's listening, go ahead and come at us.
Speaker 3:I'd love to have you listening to us, okay, but it would seem to me it would be easier to access the materials you need to do a good job in class. Couple that with the idea that everybody gets a participation trophy. Yeah, might make for a situation where we're not necessarily pushing, because evidently nobody likes to be pushed, except for us. Good old gen xers, right, and we never liked it, but we, you know, we're used to it. Yeah it, yeah, there's. There's all sorts of things that I'm curious about, but whatever, well, it sounds too.
Speaker 2:There are also classes now where they don't have any tests. Have you heard this?
Speaker 4:There are some classes that you don't take tests Like don't have finals.
Speaker 3:Yeah, do they have to write? I believe so. I think writing can be a test, a demonstration of your knowledge.
Speaker 2:Yes, there are regular expectations along the way and you're demonstrating the knowledge. Sure, that makes sense to me, but yeah, well, this is not the topic we're going to dive into today.
Speaker 4:We're 13 minutes in and haven't even started what we're doing, but this is how normal conversations with us go. It is yeah it is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this is normal. But so as I looked at these 450 new grads, thinking about what are all of these kids going to do? They're all going to go off and do great things. They are. And they have so much anxiety about getting their job, about getting their perfect job. And to every one of them I always say you will get a job, don't fret about that, you will get a job.
Speaker 3:Yeah, just lower your expectations, you don't get your perfect job.
Speaker 4:The first time out of the first one. No, not the first one.
Speaker 3:Because, also, you don't know what it is you want to do the first time, that's it.
Speaker 2:That's it Exactly. How do you know what it is? We didn't know in 1989, when we graduated.
Speaker 3:We didn't have any idea what we wanted to do I went to college to get a job. That was it, yeah.
Speaker 2:Because we probably felt that you had to have a degree to get a job, right. So that's why we did it.
Speaker 4:We went to college to get a job, yeah, to get a decent job yeah.
Speaker 3:But also and I know we've talked about this before no one ever, ever asked me what am I passionate about? What do I want to do? You know, the idea of going to grad school? My parents, that wasn't in the conversation ever. For me to go to four years of college, let alone the idea of pursuing a further degree to get me to do which would have been required to do what I really would have wanted to do. Now, looking back, and I didn't know, and and growing up in a small town in Wilmer, although not super small, but it was a small town I didn't know anybody who was a curator of a museum. No, I didn't know anybody who was interested in history that wasn't a history teacher.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I mean we didn't. I feel like we didn't know all the choices. You know what I mean. Like did you take that test that supposedly kicked out what you should do as a career? You know, and I feel like you know it. You know the choices for us. I even feel like as late as the eighties. You know nurse, teacher. You know what else?
Speaker 4:Secretary. I mean, you know secretary was still on the list, if you can believe it. You know what I mean. I just don't think we had a very good or certainly I didn't, from a small town, have any idea of all the choices you could.
Speaker 3:And I didn't have, although there were classmates who knew they wanted to be doctors.
Speaker 1:You know that was one of the professions.
Speaker 3:A few classmates wanted to be lawyers no-transcript been a great lawyer.
Speaker 3:I just that path was not. I didn't know how to get from A to B to C, yeah, and I don't remember ever having a conversation, even with school counselors about that, nope. So in many ways I think recent grads, and at least how I've tried to parent, is look you, go and do what you want to do, but also be willing to go where those jobs are. Yes, you know, if you want to be, if you want to major in theater with a cost, a focus in costume design, you're going to have to go where there are theater jobs in, in costuming, right, if you want to be.
Speaker 4:My favorite one was always Marine biologistologist. I mean, you're not staying in the midwest being a marine biologist.
Speaker 3:You know what I mean yeah, unless you want to come back and work at a zoo. Now, how many people work at a zoo? Yeah, yeah, see, this is where the practical side of me yeah, see, this is where the practical side of me and the dreamer side of me total disconnect.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:So are we going to talk about those dream jobs? Let's, yeah. What's your dream job? Well, lawyer would have been a very smart job for me. Yes, if I could have controlled my temper. I'm finding that I love the debate but I get really emotionally, you know, attached. But really I would have loved to pursue art history, just the more and more and more as I've gotten older, the things that bring me joy, the things I love watching it pulls in that history that I love so much. I think that I've spent as much time reading the plaques and the information about the paintings and the art that I'm looking at as I do enjoying the art. I would have loved that. Yeah, but where do you do that? In Wilmer, minnesota, yep. Who would I have talked to? Right, and I didn't have the internet to look it up.
Speaker 4:Right.
Speaker 3:How about you guys? What would have been your dream job?
Speaker 4:yeah, I mean the idea in my head would be some kind of surgeon, but I mean, I never even considered it, only because you know I wouldn't have gotten through all the science classes. You know, evidently that's the killer. Yeah, some sure, any sure, any of them. It wouldn't, it wouldn't have mattered. You know what I mean, the thought of being that the road to get there would be no way, you are super smart.
Speaker 3:I bet you could have done it because you're also stubborn as all hell.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, Like I said no, because I got through a lot of those classes just by memorizing for a test. So I'm not really. Yeah, you know chemistry. I'm sure I got an A, I'm sure I did, but I did just memorize it for the day, you know what I mean. And then I moved on, memorized it for that day because that's what kind of test taker I am, I can remember it. Because that's what kind of test taker I am, I can remember it. But put it to actual use not so much, yeah.
Speaker 4:So actual dream job, that's a good one, no idea. Even today I would have liked my career path to be faster. You know what I mean. I took the slow way to here, for sure, I've said that, but you know, I didn't know that I could have done it actually any faster.
Speaker 3:So yeah, we don't know. No, yeah. So, kitty, I know that you were very involved in theater in high school and you were involved in choir and theater in college. You even did a little bit of theater post-college. Still, some choir, would theater have been the thing for you? I think?
Speaker 2:mine would have. I know from well one of the things, a couple of things I used to play when I was little. I used to play being a teacher. My dad was a teacher and so you know my dad was a teacher, my mom was a nurse, and so I would play school all the time. I would make worksheets. I would go to school with him. I'd use the old mimeograph machine where you would actually put the thing in and you'd turn the crank and it would. It would spit out the copies. I'd make worksheets. I had students, I would grade papers. So I actually thought that when I went to college I would get an education degree and then I just didn't, for some reason. I just went speech and communications. But one of the other things that I used to play, I used to play newscaster. So I would get the newspaper and I would cut out the articles in the newspaper and I would tape them onto pieces of paper and then I would sit at my dining room table and I would read the news.
Speaker 4:That's very interesting, you're the only person I know that has done that so we used not what I used to play, that's for sure I mean, I played other things too, you know barbies and normal stuff stacy and I had a cooking show in the backyard where we made things out of mud yes, mud worms. Rotten zucchini, cucumbers, cucumbers, rotten cucumbers.
Speaker 2:These are things that kids don't play today? Probably not.
Speaker 4:They're missing out.
Speaker 3:Also kids today don't get locked out of their house. Told to come back for lunch. I don't want to see you until it's lunchtime.
Speaker 4:Then I don't want to see you again until supper.
Speaker 3:Oh my gosh, we really were feral.
Speaker 2:But you know, as you think about, I did a little bit of research this week. I'm just thinking about professions and you know, of course there are a lot of these professions in life that come with a great deal of stress. I do know some people who chose specific careers because they wanted to have a specific lifestyle. They said I want to make as much money as I can so that I can have a luxury lifestyle. Then I'm going to go to medical school, I'm going to be a doctor, I'm going to be a lawyer or whatever it is. But with that comes a ton of stress. And also, how much free time do you really get to enjoy, to enjoy all of that?
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, and I think what we're seeing is family life for those people. When I was cooking for the doctors often had conversations about it and I didn't know this and this just came to my head, so of course, I didn't research, I didn't fact check it. Yeah, if you're looking for fact checking on this podcast, you're going to be sorely disappointed.
Speaker 1:So that's on you, we're just going to say that right now.
Speaker 3:Okay, well, I was just going to say that right now. Okay, Well, I was just going to say that. Uh, Dr John often told me that, um, OBGYNs often have an incredibly high divorce rate because they are on call 24 seven and it's nearly impossible to have a healthy.
Speaker 3:there's no such thing as a work-life balance and I know for these two very successful, loving doctors that had children that they loved. They had nannies 24-7 because they were both surgeons. First, I will say that they were both surgeons. So yes, as you said, kitty, you can have a lot of money. Yeah, but everything has a price.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah. It's funny that you said you wanted to be a broadcaster because you know the top worst job in America is broadcaster, really, yeah, and then firefighter, laborer, taxi driver, waiter, chef, chef, construction, and I think it's based on stress. I mean, there's probably lots of criteria in this article that I read, but I think a lot of it was stress and home life for all these people yeah, I think too, with such, with a very public um role like that, your success is very much based on ratings.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's all about ratings. So if your ratings start to fall, you're out. And for women in broadcasting like women have a shorter career span than men, because I know yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:So have you guys watched the morning show? Yes, I love that show.
Speaker 4:Jennifer.
Speaker 3:Aniston and Reese Witherspoon. Oh the movie. No, it's not a movie. Oh it's on Apple.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, it's on Apple TV. That's the one I keep on the watch, but I don't have Apple TV.
Speaker 3:Yes, it's, it's really good it talks about that in particular. I mean, that's the whole basis these two women as anchors, the elder, the newer, yeah.
Speaker 2:It's really good, but I think that I am so with my job right now at Heroic, one of the things that I get to do. I have a podcast at work. We have this together, which I love. My good glam business is live shows on facebook, and so I feel like I have. I have started to put these pieces together to really feel like I am doing my dream job now and when I am ready to be done with corporate world. That's what I'm going to do, it's going to, it's this and my jewelry business, and I will feel like I would have you know. Walk walked my way right into. I've crafted it for myself, sure.
Speaker 4:Good for you, make a plan and actually.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and and focused on. I mean, it's true that we all that we need to ask ourselves the question what are the things that we really enjoy doing and how can we do more of those things and do less of the things that we really enjoy doing, and how can we do more of those things and do less of the things that we don't like doing? We have to be realistic.
Speaker 2:We have to be realistic about there. There's always, there's going to have to be, times that we have to do things that we don't like to do. Yeah, but that is a very important question as we seek to find our own happiness and as we want to design the life that we want to live.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so let's just take a, let's just take an offshoot from there, because we've had a couple different um, a couple different comments and suggest not suggestions but tangents that just make me laugh.
Speaker 3:Like Kitty and I in Vegas, we're walking around, we're seeing Harry Winston, christian Louboutin, all these really, really high-end stores, and there's a gatekeeper in a suit and a headset and a rope and they're standing at the doorway. There were literally like 12 people in the whole mall and and I don't know if you guys follow Bethany Frankel, but she recently had a real big to do she tried to stop in at the Chanel store in downtown Chicago and she was not dressed um, uh, particularly Chanel like and they denied her entry and Kitty and I were like what a sucky job. How would you like to stand there all day looking in the doorway, not talking to anybody? Yeah, and then I don't know how this came about, but evidently my hearing's gone. Stacey also, at one point, said something and I misheard her and I could have sworn. She said I want to drive a school bus Bus driver.
Speaker 4:I don't even remember what I actually said, but it wouldn't have been be a bus driver.
Speaker 3:So it got me thinking about what are these jobs out there that you would not want to do, no way? Or Stacey said well, I could do it for one day.
Speaker 4:yeah, one day yeah, not pass out. Yeah, mall cop would have to be right up there. I mean any kind of security. I just don't feel like that's a very you know anything that has to use your mind. You're just sitting waiting for something that may never happen.
Speaker 3:This guy didn't even get to walk around, they weren't even mall cops, they were doorway cops, not good.
Speaker 2:And it's interesting because they're always. They're usually men. They're dressed in like a black suit. They're usually big, they're you know, kind of big, intimidating dudes. I kind of wonder how much that pays.
Speaker 4:Is this a career?
Speaker 3:Is this a side?
Speaker 2:hustle for them. Is it a part-time job? Because how could you stand at a door for eight hours?
Speaker 4:Five days a week. Yeah, not full-time.
Speaker 2:I don't know, that's a tough one.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I've always had a, and you know what I? I remember playing store when I was a kid too. My sister and I would have a little cash register and I have like, if I could I don't know if let's start with one day, Sure, I'd love to do it. For one day, I'd like to be a cashier.
Speaker 4:Having, just like the grocery cashier, the groceries. You just want to move them across the belt, yep.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, one day in high school school I did that in high school.
Speaker 2:Thank you, cash wise well I think, job for me I think what I what is what seems appealing to me is that it's obviously transactional. So your customer comes, you see everything on the belt, you put everything through. I'm very organized. I put things into the bags in an organized way. They pay their money off, they go Done, there's closure after every single one of those customers and I think that's probably very appealing to me I have a question Are you going to talk to everybody along the way?
Speaker 4:I mean, are you going to have a conversation? Are you going to be that everybody along the way? I mean, are you going?
Speaker 3:to make a conversation, have a conversation. Are you going to be that person that holds up the line?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I am not going to be that person. We know who we're talking about. Up at Cub and Chaska right With the beautiful flower behind her ear. Yeah, is she still there? I have not seen her for ever.
Speaker 3:No. Maybe, she got back to Hawaii Maybe. Why do I know that she wants to go back to Hawaii? Because she talked about it every time I was in line.
Speaker 4:Yeah, All the people that complain about self-checkout, I chuckle. Self-checkout is for me. You don't have to talk to anybody, you just whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop and you're gone.
Speaker 2:And I love self-checkout because I get to pretend I'm doing checkout.
Speaker 4:Pretending to check people out. Yes.
Speaker 3:Okay, as the one that worked in the grocery store in high school did, you know well back in the day your till and machine that you scanned everything on your work was timed. They saw how many items you rang up per minute, per how long a transaction took, and they kind of watched that to see who was lollygagging. And you know why things were taking so long. And that is also where I discovered that people don't know how to shop and they do not know how to unload things on a belt. Yeah, do not send your eggs, your bread.
Speaker 3:It makes no sense how you grocery shop, because what's on the top of your cart? All the stuff that's going to get crunched. So what do you unload first? All the stuff that goes to the end of the belt and gets crunched. Nope, not me. And what comes last? Your canned goods and the heavy goods that are on the bottom that you just piled everything else on. So, kitty, I'm going to say that you would need to be in the express lane where people only had 12 items or less. Where people only had 12 items or less, you could not deal with the full shopping cart because you'd be expecting them to put the things up and put all of your refrigerator frozen things together because you want them in the same bag, keeping everything cold. Can you guys see the sunset?
Speaker 3:that is just starting right now, all of a sudden, I'm being called up, might have to take a time out and go fix that.
Speaker 2:Go towards the light.
Speaker 4:No, don't go to the light.
Speaker 3:So yeah, you guys talk I'm going to go take care of this. What?
Speaker 4:else.
Speaker 1:Sorry, what else?
Speaker 4:would be bad that we don't want to do. Well, there'd be a ton of things, a ton of things we couldn't do um yeah, when I looked at the highest paying jobs, these were no surprises.
Speaker 2:Anesthesiologist, gynecologist, physician, psychiatrist, dentist all right dentists.
Speaker 3:Do you know? They have a super high suicide rate yes, oh my gosh, why? Nobody likes going to the dentist no, exactly that's true.
Speaker 4:yeah, but those are all jobs that take a lot of years of school, a lot.
Speaker 3:Yes, Dentist orthodontist aircraft pilot. That I find really interesting. That one A pilot? Yes, because I've heard or read things where they're not getting paid very much and they can't keep people because they don't want to pay the old people. They just want to hire newbies that don't aren't high up. You know, like a lot of things they don't want to people pay people with super seniority. They want to move them out and pay somebody less. So I'm surprised that's on the list. And where are all the engineers and computer geeks?
Speaker 2:Okay, they're coming so now. So after aircraft pilot, computer and information systems managers, lawyers, now we got some more doctors, pediatric surgeons, software engineer, architectural and engineering managers, engineering pathologists, cyber security, architectural and engineering managers, engineering pathologists, cybersecurity, financial managers. So very heavy medical. None of those things are no Very heavy medical and computer, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I can say without a doubt that I never, ever, considered anything in the medical field ever, ever. I can deal with a sick kid, but as soon as Ava needed stitches in her face, I had to excuse myself and Kevin had to take over. I'm like no, thank you. Scrolling through tv and what, and accidentally seeing the eye surgery nearly makes me want to vomit. You can't do that.
Speaker 2:I loved. So we got into watching the Resident on Hulu. We devoured the entire series eight seasons, maybe seven or eight seasons and that was all trauma drama. So it was all emergency room drama and they showed surgeries and we got to the point where so patient would come in, they'd show symptoms and Bill and I would look at each other Yep, uh. I can't remember what we would say to each other they need a, they need a ct scan, yeah, but um, it was, and I know it was tv show, I know that, but yeah, it was pretty cool. It made me wonder what an emergency room is really like, because I loved watching them go into action and their education is all about you save lives. You do whatever you can do to save the life. Talk about pressure, oh my gosh. But I would love to, just like I would love to to sit in a corner in a professional or in a super high end restaurant kitchen. I'd love to sit in the corner of an emergency room.
Speaker 3:Uh, no, thank you. Kitchen, yes, emergency room, no, um, it's. I don't know. This has nothing to do with being a job, but one of my clients, somebody that bought a house this week, somehow we got to. Oh, the man got called to jury duty and by the time they moved they'd be in the other county, a different county, and he was all excited because he didn't want to go to jury duty. And I said you know, I've never been on jury duty and his wife goes.
Speaker 3:I was and it was a really juicy case. She goes. It was this, this arson rant. You know she went on, she goes. It was a big deal. And I'm like you know I would love to be on a jury, not the Trump one, that's got too much stake, much stake, you know, personal life sort of thing. But and maybe that comes back to being a lawyer but because instead of watching all the doctor shows, I've watched every single law and order that's ever been out there. I loved law and order. Yeah, not the su, not not that one. I like the mainstream law and order. I love detective shows. Kitty, you also told me at one time that you would be an excellent detective. Yes, that's correct. At which point Bill and I both got a chuckle because I scare easily.
Speaker 2:Yes, I have wanted to be a police, a police person, a police officer for many, many years. You did a ride along, didn't you? Yeah, did a ride along a few years ago with one of the policemen here in chaska who's a friend of ours. He actually at some point, at a certain point, said okay, katie, I'm going to take you home now. Okay, I'm going to finish myself. But I said I want to go with you one night when you do an overnight, you know, when you do a through the night. So he said, all right, I'll pick you up at 10 pm and we patrolled all night and we saw some action. I'm telling you, oh, we did.
Speaker 4:Yeah, we saw some action.
Speaker 1:In Chaska. What kind of action?
Speaker 2:Well, we stopped a few speeders. Oh, we were at one point we were down in the dispatch in downtown chaska. He was showing me where all the calls come in, and so we're looking over the. You know the two people that take the call incoming calls. I'm standing over her shoulder, she takes a call and so she's asking questions and she's typing in information. She types in the, the address. It says a attempted car break-in or something, and I'm looking at it and it's I don't remember the exact numbers, but something, something, something wild would weigh.
Speaker 2:I'm like Brady, that's my street, we got to go, let's go. So we, you know, ran to the car. He floored it. We headed, you know, up the hill up up Audubon. When we got to our street he turned and put all the lights off on his car. So now we're in stealth mode. This is like midnight stealth mode going up my street. And you know so the. The perp had left by then, but the homeowner decided that he was going to confront the perp, so he came out with his gun. Oh, that's always good. So Brady is like dude, no, just let us handle it, you don't need to, you know whatever. But so that happened. We went through the trailer park a couple times. It was fascinating. But yeah, bill laughs at me because we can be in our house and I won't know exactly where he is in the house and he'll come down the hall and I didn't hear him and you know I'll jump or I'll scream or whatever he says. Oh yeah, you'd be a good cop.
Speaker 3:Again I could not be a cop because of that whole physical challenges where you got to be able to run and lift and all that You'd have to climb the wall and get over the side. No, I'd need a boost. Can you give me a boost?
Speaker 2:I don't know, but yeah, detective would be pretty cool.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't think you get a start as a detective. No, yeah, see, if we could just start at the top.
Speaker 2:Which brings us back to the beginning of the conversation. Yes, so our words.
Speaker 4:And that's all. It seems like that's what every young person wants to do. They want to start up here, not down here, yeah, exactly. So we all like to start that way.
Speaker 2:Right yeah, words of advice to the class of 2024.
Speaker 2:And even those who are in their first few years of your careers. Just let it unfold in front of you and you know, of course you're. You have the ability to direct things at certain times, but know that it is one step at a time and you have to develop as a person to even know what you want to do and what you know. You might find that you're really good at something that you don't even realize at this point, that you didn't know what was out there.
Speaker 3:Yeah. That you didn't know was an option. I think, as Stacey has said, you know, we didn't even know that there were things that were options.
Speaker 2:Nope, right, yeah, didn't know you could do that as a job Talk to people, explore, get curious, interview people, yeah, and also.
Speaker 3:I would like to say you're not going to like everybody at your work. It's your work, it's not your social group, it's not your family. Don't expect that you're going to like everybody you work with.
Speaker 4:That's right. You didn't get to pick them more likely. So, you know it, that's right.
Speaker 3:You didn't get to pick them more likely. So so you know it's, it's a job. Keep the keep, you know. Feel good about what you're doing, learning new skills, but also embrace the other things in your life that bring you joy. Like so many things, don't put all your eggs in one basket. You know the so many things. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. You know the? You're a good person. You're a good person, you'll find your thing.
Speaker 1:And listen to your mother, you could have been a lawyer 20, 30 years ago, missed opportunity.
Speaker 2:Yeah right, all right. Well, I think we'll sign off for tonight.
Speaker 3:Yes, Congratulations graduates and moms and dads and friends of the family for getting another crew through. Yeah for sure, yep.
Speaker 2:More people out in the world going poised and ready to do great things, absolutely All right.
Speaker 3:Friends we'll see you next week Peace out Peace out Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye.
Speaker 4:Bye, bye, bye, bye.
Speaker 1:Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye. All right, look the force running. Get me to the top. I don't need an invitation. I'm about to start a celebration. Let me in. Brought a good time for some friends. Turn it up loud past 10. Turning up the crowd.
