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learnteach) wrote2007-01-04 10:31 am
learnteach) wrote2007-01-04 10:31 am
Enough Angst
For the following reasons, I will begin hunting an engineering job this week.
1. I'm tired of dealing with students who should be kicked out of the school. (Seriously. After 4 suspensions, for drugs, fighting, parole violations...why aren't they in a remedial school?)
2. I want enough energy to have a life. I worked from 7:30 AM to 8 PM last night, and am still behind.
3. I want to travel. The thought that being a teacher gives you more free time is a myth; the school year stretches from August 20 to June 20. The time off from teaching you get within the school year is filled with the unfinished work.
4. Money. I can live on very little, and live well. But I can live better on real money.
5. Accreditation. Don't have it. The process to get it is very unclear.
There are a lot of "ifs". If I was a better disciplinarian. If this wasn't the first full year. If it wasn't a crew of teacher wreckers. If the schools stopped having infrastucture issues--lemme tell you, when you don't have full booksets, and the copier runs out of either paper or toner, it's an emergency.
I figure it will take between 4 and 6 months to find a good sales engineering job. I can probably finish up the school term here completely; a good job would allow that.
To do list:
1. Buff up Resume. TBD by 1/10/07
2. Redeploy contact list; contact 2 a day. TBD by 1/15/07
3. Put together interview outfits; TBD by 1/15/07
4. Sign back up on DIce, etc. TBD by 1/15/07.
**Sigh.** I wish this could work...but the van is dying, I don't dare ride the bike to school, and I'm willing to be frugal, but not poor.
1. I'm tired of dealing with students who should be kicked out of the school. (Seriously. After 4 suspensions, for drugs, fighting, parole violations...why aren't they in a remedial school?)
2. I want enough energy to have a life. I worked from 7:30 AM to 8 PM last night, and am still behind.
3. I want to travel. The thought that being a teacher gives you more free time is a myth; the school year stretches from August 20 to June 20. The time off from teaching you get within the school year is filled with the unfinished work.
4. Money. I can live on very little, and live well. But I can live better on real money.
5. Accreditation. Don't have it. The process to get it is very unclear.
There are a lot of "ifs". If I was a better disciplinarian. If this wasn't the first full year. If it wasn't a crew of teacher wreckers. If the schools stopped having infrastucture issues--lemme tell you, when you don't have full booksets, and the copier runs out of either paper or toner, it's an emergency.
I figure it will take between 4 and 6 months to find a good sales engineering job. I can probably finish up the school term here completely; a good job would allow that.
To do list:
1. Buff up Resume. TBD by 1/10/07
2. Redeploy contact list; contact 2 a day. TBD by 1/15/07
3. Put together interview outfits; TBD by 1/15/07
4. Sign back up on DIce, etc. TBD by 1/15/07.
**Sigh.** I wish this could work...but the van is dying, I don't dare ride the bike to school, and I'm willing to be frugal, but not poor.
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And dude, seriously, we have GOT to do lunch eventually!