Medjool Dates Fruit & Medjool Date Palm Trees » Uncategorized http://www.medjool-dates.com/blog Medjool Dates, Dates Dried Fruit, Dried Fruit, Fresh Fruit, Nutrition Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:19:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Dates, Gators and Careers http://www.medjool-dates.com/blog/2012/02/05/dates-gators-and-careers/ http://www.medjool-dates.com/blog/2012/02/05/dates-gators-and-careers/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:19:05 +0000 Pina http://www.medjool-dates.com/blog/?p=354 I was watching the history channel and the gator hunters show came on.  Makes you wonder how it is that we end up with certain jobs and careers.  If I had been born in Louisiana I may have been a gator hunter, or a fisherman, or shrimper.   Our future lives are full of possibilities, but the fact is that we tend to do what we are exposed to.  We learn to do and learn about what our parents do.  Cultivating medjool dates is nice and tranquil lifestyle and if born into to family of date growers chances are you will be a date grower too.  I suppose the clincher is whether there are too many kids in the family, it is a lot harder to continue a family business if you have to share.  There are just not enough resources to accommodate a large family.  The business will not generate enough income, there may not be enough land, or maybe not enough palms.  The same is true for most other businesses.  I am not sure I would be able to go gator hunting and be at risk of being the huntee, but who knows.  If all you know is gator hunting and you grow up in family hunting environment you may think it is normal to go about hunting gators and putting your life on the line.  I think a lot of parents go out of their way to get their children to do something different and not do what they do, even so I think most parents are unsuccessful.  When parents succeed in getting their children to take a different direction, I am not sure that the children are successful, I would imagine there are many successful examples, but at the same time I would think there is a very high failure rate.   I have seen many children take different direction from their parents and coming back to their parents for help, because they failed in those unknown waters.  I think it is the reason why we need colleges, without them the next generation does not stand a chance.  I think we need to change our school system that children would be screened for those things they are particularly adept to at an early stage.  Sure we all want our children to be medical doctors, but the reality is that few of our children actually have the skills or desire to be medical doctors.

GHTime Code(s): nc  ]]> http://www.medjool-dates.com/blog/2012/02/05/dates-gators-and-careers/feed/ 0 It Was a Cloudy Drizzling Day Today http://www.medjool-dates.com/blog/2011/10/04/it-was-a-cloudy-drizzling-day-today/ http://www.medjool-dates.com/blog/2011/10/04/it-was-a-cloudy-drizzling-day-today/#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:24:02 +0000 Pina http://www.medjool-dates.com/blog/?p=340 I woke up to a very dark morning.  It was about 6:30, I tried to go back to sleep, but couldn’t fall asleep again.  My daughter woke up and said it was too hot, she too could not go back to sleep.  I turned the TV on and we watched the smurfs.  Have not seen the smurfs in ages.  I often wish I could go back and time and be a kid again.  Life was so much easier back then, childhood is wonderful, you just don’t appreciate it until you have to work day in and day out, especially in an economy when you can’t afford to complaint about your job.  There is way to complaint, take a break, take vacation or do anything to jeopardize your job.  Farming is a little different, there is no one to complaint about.  I suppose you can complaint to the hares, the snakes, and the birds, but they will not listen much.  You can talk the date palms if you happen to grow medjool dates or other dates for that matter.  Or it could be avocados, tomatoes or whatever it happens to be that you grown.  We got to school right on time today, the bell rang about 30 seconds before getting there, the teacher was late today.  I refer to her as Mrs. Slowpope, and why would she ask for conferences with the parents of the kids ?  The kids are are five years old, do you really need to have conferences when your kids are learning their ABCs ?  I can appreciate over reactive parents wanting to do the best for their kids, but it seemed a bit too much for me.  Oh, well the good thing is I got back in time to get my other child to his school on time.  He hates being late and so far has never been late.  My daughter did not want to to go school today, she pulled the my stomach hurts, and I am sick, I can’t go to school today trick.  It didn’t work.  I am inclined to not take them at times, I just want to sleep in from time to time, especially when I have a bad night, but what can you do about it, you can’t afford to take such a break.  Fortunately, she goes to a really well run school , where tomorrow, where it is forecasted to rain, is walk to school day. Sigh.

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