Are you a patient person?
By maximax8
@maximax8 (31046)
United Kingdom
November 9, 2020 6:45am CST
When I was 5 years old 5 minutes seemed like a very long time. Time seemed like it was going faster by the time I was 10 years of age. I so wished to have money to travel when I was 16 to 18 years old. I had been working as a paper deliverer from age 13 and I got a Saturday job in a shop when I was 16 years old. At age 18 I decided that I wished to work overseas so I could afford to travel. So I went to work for a family in Finland. I cared for their children and taught their youngest daughter to speak English. They gave me a high wages. I traveled around Europe with all money. It seemed so perfect. When I came home I got a job at a shipping company. I worked in London and traveling there each day was exciting. I think my traveling overseas made me a more patient person.
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@ARIES1973 (11426)
• Legaspi, Philippines
9 Nov 20
I am a patient person, I am a silent worker and I also don't give up easily. Perhaps this is because I still have dreams for myself and my family.
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@maximax8 (31046)
• United Kingdom
9 Nov 20
@ARIES1973 Yes, traveling overseas isn't possible at the moment. I love way you record what you would like to achieve this year. Well done for achieving what you wished to do in two of your choices. This is excellent. Good luck achieving the rest.
@ARIES1973 (11426)
• Legaspi, Philippines
9 Nov 20
@maximax8 Yes, I actually written what I want to achieve this year. I have 5 things that I want to achieve this year, wrote each of those on a separate sheets of paper and keep those in an envelope. When I checked, two were already accomplished. I think one will not be achieved this year because it's about traveling which is impossible at this situation.
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@maximax8 (31046)
• United Kingdom
14 Nov 20
Cheyee it is totally worth trying hard to achieve a dream. If you know where you wish to go then you can steps to go there. If you think you can't do something then it won't happen. You can work on more than one goal. It might be challenging to do if it is big thing like pay off a mortgage.
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@Cheyee (8344)
• Pakanbaru, Indonesia
14 Nov 20
@maximax8 right now I am one month behind the bill (and the fine almost as big as the bill). It's around $ 250. I try to save money, but I couldn't. This pandemic makes my husband lost his side job. But I am still grateful we still have income from his monthly salary. If I don't pay the bill next month maybe bank will take our car.
@Metsrock69 (3582)
• United States
9 Nov 20
I am patient for the most part but sometimes I need to get things done really quickly.
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@marguicha (223028)
• Chile
9 Nov 20
You have travelled all over the world now, Maxine. Nothing has stopped you.
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@maximax8 (31046)
• United Kingdom
11 Nov 20
@marguicha I would love to visit Madagascar and Mauritius. South America is so amazing. 
@maximax8 (31046)
• United Kingdom
14 Nov 20
Mpho Ashworth. I am delighted that your patience opened your eyes to cultural diversity. I haven't traveled to every country in Africa. Graham Hughes did and his time there needed much patience. He was traveling over land an sea with no planes. He got some fishermen to take him to Cape Verde Islands. Their government misunderstood.
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@Lushlala (4028)
• Gaborone, Botswana
15 Nov 20
@maximax8 Yes, cultural diversity can be very tricky but as long as we're patient enough to listen, observe and learn, even when we do commit some faux pas, people different to ourselves are often accommodating. While I'm very 'spacially aware and sensitive' there've been times when I've inadvertently got it wrong but luckily, people are often understanding especially if they see there's respect there as well :)
@jvicentevalera (13671)
• Santiago, Chile
13 Nov 20
I admire the fact that you started working since a really young age. When I first got a job I was 22, really really late.
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@jvicentevalera (13671)
• Santiago, Chile
15 Nov 20
@maximax8 oh that's good. I wish I could've worked since a young age. Speaking of university, I went to college when i was 18, and graduated at 23.
@snowy22315 (180767)
• United States
9 Nov 20
No, not at all, but it is something I have worked on some. I would say I am a bit more patient than I used to be. Good things come to those that wait.!
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@maximax8 (31046)
• United Kingdom
9 Nov 20
Mom delivering papers was something I did before school. In the shop I made sure I only worked on Saturdays. I was 18 years old when I began my full time job at the shipping company after being being in Finland. In the start of the 1990s people were being made redundant. I was made redundant at age 20 years old. I found it very hard to pay my bills for my cottage. I tried very hard to get another job though couldn't. Loads of people were finding it impossible to get a job. I decided to let out my cottage and get a round the world ticket plus a working holiday for Australia. That is because I was sent a few more thousand pounds because my great aunts jewelry had been sold. I had already spent my inheritance on my cottage.
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@lilianharp (168)
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14 Nov 20
I used to babysit a child who was 3 years old when I was 13 y/o, they were from a rich family and used to pay me 40 USD, I was really happy with this job as sometimes they used to give me some tips but only for like 2 years because the child was 5 by that time and didn't need a babysitter.
. it really requires a lot of patience to deal with kids, used to ask a question about everything he sees, made mischief but after all, he just was a kid.
. it really requires a lot of patience to deal with kids, used to ask a question about everything he sees, made mischief but after all, he just was a kid.