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[camwyn]

I've taken to starting my phone conversations with my parents, or my messages on their answering machine, with "Doing all right. My company's still here." That, or "Doing all right so far." And my parents tend to answer with this very concerned, very compassionate tone that most people reserve for "We're so sorry you still have cancer".

Some days I hate working in the financial sector. Esp. when there's so many rules about what I'm not actually allowed to say.

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[jeditigger.livejournal.com]

I had to read through this a few times to get what you were saying without assuming a subtext that wasn't there.

I hope you're doing OK. :) In general.

[camwyn]

My company actually is doing fine. There's just SEC rules about talking about specific investments, projects, etc. and I honestly don't know what I'm allowed and not allowed to say to people outside the company, so it's safer to keep things general. Thus: "My company is still here, and I still have a job" is about as detailed as things get on some days. It might help if my parents were into IT, because then I could discuss tech specs a little, but.

[motherdragon.livejournal.com]

I know where your coming from and I work for a company that is nothing like what you do at all but hey still worry and all way's will hun its the parent thing trust me on this it will never change no matter how much your reasure them that your fine.

[camwyn]

It's not so much that I don't want them worrying. I appreciate that they do. I just wish sometimes that this industry didn't make me have to hedge my statements because anything could happen to the markets in a heartbeat, and that my parents didn't have to look at the financial news and go 'oh, ouch, I hope she's all right'.

Times like this I miss working for the Red Cross. Yes, our budget was tiny and things got bad when economic bad times came up, but at least if my parents were worried about me, it was for a good reason, like having to work at Ground Zero or being at a job site in the path of a twenty-three-county flood.

[motherdragon.livejournal.com]

Hun it doesn't matter what you do they will worry no matter what, that's why were parent's lol. You could be working as a bank teller and they would read the latest new's of bank robberires and then worry about you. LOL. Don't worry just keep loving them and that's easy so when they worry try to change the subject I alway's try to anyway. And if anything else I bet they were very proud of your work with the Red Cross, and at ground zero. Even though they worried I bet pride shines in their eye's when they talk about you there.

[bastets-place.livejournal.com]

*laughter*
I have to start every telephone conversation with my parents with "Everything is fine, there is no problem" because I (as an adult) live at home with them, and sometimes, when my daughter and I are out and about, I call home to say I will be later than usual - the problem being that they instantly assume something horrible must be happening in order for me to stop the car, find a pay phone, and call them.
They also forget that I own a cell phone a lot, too.