@Multifavs ,
@Anthony7 , and others, may I ask you personally to please pray for the Lord to give my mother rest in her line of work. For someone who doesn't work there himself I have been around her place of employment long enough to see that managing hazardous waste is definitely a harder business than her superiors representing Harris county seem to think that it is. I just talked with her for along while over the phone because she needed someone to vent her frustrations to and to keep it short it amounts to her working really hard (and the employees under her) but being set up to fail ... because the people above don't care to help in any way since they can keep making their nice upper-middle-class income simply saying from the comfort of their desks to just "handle it", and making her feel stupid and incompetent when I know she's not.
But she can't just up and leave like I thankfully was able to do with Dr. Pepper when I still lived with her back then. Her retirement benefits will apparently drastically suffer if she leaves now. She sees little choice but to have to stick it out another four years. She has already been working for Harris county for thirteen years, and I barely survived two at Dr. Pepper. (So you can imagine how daunting another four must truly sound.) If Mom has to do that, well, please pray that somehow, someway, it will get better in the meantime. Because she even seriously considered checking in to a mental hospital just to feel some kind of rest from her problems and hopefully learn how to better cope being surrounded by others with problems in a safe environment for so long, as I once did. So, well, I imagine the way she feels right now must be pretty bad.