3 thoughts on work

[learnteach]

1. If you're not earning enough money to save some, you're committing charity.    If you're committing charity, it should be on your terms.
2. Friend called a friend, they looked at my resume online, and a hiring manager just called me for a local SE job.
3.  ...I'm exhausted fighting the students every day.   Then I see the test results; most of them are failing. By my own self standards, that means I'm failing.  But I'm exhausted, fighting the students each and every day.

so....

Comments

[falzalot.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the SE job. I think you'll be much happier. It's a pity, because in a good situation, you'd be a fantastic teacher. But that isn't a good situation.

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Good for #2!

On #3, you're being too black-and-white. It is a mistake of perception which happens regularly throughout the school system.

With a ho-hum teacher, what if these kids would normally get a 50% average, but with you, they're getting a 54% average? Still failing -- but 4% points better than they would have been.

Likewise, in a school which produces above-average grades, if a kid is getting a 95%, maybe a bad teacher (or system) is not serving her well enough, because her ability is actually at 100%. But the teachers of that student would pat themselves on the back.

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

Well, good luck!

[ptigris.livejournal.com]

Big John T?

Connsummate back-stretcher? Graceful fighter/dancer?

If so, I'll put you on my f-list. *grins*

[bayleesan.livejournal.com]

My friend Squid always made tha argument taht the standard of a project or actions goodness should be the qaunitity of fun it includes. For example when I was an admin, and would complain of the drullness of it all, he would ask me why I'd not leave, to which I'd give the expected responsibility answers...blah blah blah - his answer was the question "Is it ever fun anymore?" Okay so this doesn'talways work, and it did lead e to be ahairdresser which doesn't pay so well...however it is a good argument to consider. And knowing you I am sure you already have, and I am preaching to the chior - so what I mean to say is...I hopeyou find some fun. :)

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

Great! Fingers crossed that you'll get the job.

Charity

[metageek.livejournal.com]

Actually, I would refine your thought number 1: if you're not earning as much as you could elsewhere, you're committing charity. If you get a job offer (see thought 2), and you turn it down, then the quantity of your charity goes up.

In this case, your charity includes both lost income and lost sanity.