Everyone knows this saying and everyone on the planet Earth feels this way from time to time. I find myself fighting a lot with people who just don’t understand. I have a job no one else in my entire school has – and it’s very hard and very lonely being me. I have the kids on one hand and the adults on the other. I have to carefully juggle them – we don’t want them crashing and hurting one another. What they all tend to forget is that they are all very heavy and I am hurting so much just trying to keep them up and moving. No one sees me for what I do or even who I am. Sure I have friends and we have fun – but I see that as an event outside of work. I feel that when I go hang out with them – I leave my job and go hang out with fun folks. Then I go back to what I do – Interpreter. The job I do is very demeaning as you are supposed to be an invisible robot. I don’t do that well – and if you know me you know that. I am a very social creature who needs to be seen, heard and viewed as a normal human being. There are some days I listen to people talk to me and know they have no idea what I do. They are there every day with me – but they have their own jobs to worry about. Cannot blame them for that. I know for a fact that being an Interpreter is not what I was born to do. I want to stay for a few more years, allowing the boy I Interpret for to graduate high school, and then move on with life. I have come this far with him and now I need to see him finish. He is the sole reason I keep this job. If it weren’t for him I would have told them long ago to kiss my large white ass as I walked out the door…

Anyhow – it’s a lonely world for me at work. I just wish I could get the people I juggle (kids and adults) to see me as a real person and respect me as a real person…

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