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Imponderables: Put It In A Happy Place

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UPDATED: Thursday, September 9, 2010 22:56
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MSA
Monday, August 30, 2010 7:02 PM

Usually I tend to persevere long past normal, but really I seem to have lost the will to do my job. Not sure why, but at this point it feels more like I'm surviving a punishment than working. Oh well. At least it pays ( I'd say pays well but I'm a teacher )

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Tuesday, August 31, 2010 2:38 AM

Sorry MsA :\ Is it the job itself, or the atmosphere? Or both?

I can't really speak on this ponder because the only job I've really held for a long time is with the military, and that's a job I can't quit really :P (though I've definitely gotten tired of it, and I'm working to change the only-job-I've-ever-had bit), but to bring up a related ponder:

If you've found your job has gotten old, what kind of career change would you consider?


First day of school, I felt like a zombie all day, couldn't really focus. Pretty sure one of my professors already thinks I'm a weirdo :P *sidles off to bar*

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Tuesday, August 31, 2010 2:09 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by freelancertex:
If you've found your job has gotten old, what kind of career change would you consider?


I just heard on the radio yesterday that some survey said 45% of college chicks would sleep with their professor to pass a course. So, the obvious answer is I'd become a professor That is of course until I get fired.

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Wednesday, September 1, 2010 1:25 AM

Lol. Ambitious.

*tuesday night bump*

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MSA
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 6:24 PM

Ah Zeek but then the hordes currently battling to the death for the right to date you would have the unfair competition of ambitious college chicks

To answer your question FLT it's the nature of the job. I am a teacher and I'm not teaching I'm just running interference, dealing with parents, training teachers who , for the most part can't or won't do what they need to, and basically getting calls from 6 am til 9pm most days( even got 7 phone calls and 10 emails while on vacation) with frantic hysterical people wanting me to solve all their problems without them having to do anything.

I want a teaching job... I'm sick of adults.



To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Wednesday, September 8, 2010 9:49 PM

Everybody must be back to school.


http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

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Wednesday, September 8, 2010 10:26 PM

*chirp* *chirp*

I'm being a cricket!

*chirp* *chirp*

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Wednesday, September 8, 2010 11:12 PM

I.ve been watching LEXX. What were these giys smoking when the wrote the scripts for this series?


http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

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Thursday, September 9, 2010 1:09 PM

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Originally posted by traveler:
I.ve been watching LEXX. What were these giys smoking when the wrote the scripts for this series?


Never seen it. I've been slowly recording episodes of The Wire. I've heard it's good but since there only seems to be 1 per week I think it's going to take a long time to get even the first season stored up.

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Thursday, September 9, 2010 3:30 PM

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Originally posted by MsA: To answer your question FLT it's the nature of the job. I am a teacher and I'm not teaching I'm just running interference, dealing with parents, training teachers who , for the most part can't or won't do what they need to, and basically getting calls from 6 am til 9pm most days( even got 7 phone calls and 10 emails while on vacation) with frantic hysterical people wanting me to solve all their problems without them having to do anything.

I want a teaching job... I'm sick of adults.

:\ *hugs* That's outrageous that they called you on vacation, and at night, especially if it's something that can wait; I'd be tempted to unplug my phone. :( Is there anything you can do in terms of changing your job within the district/system?

Traveler: I've heard of LEXX, don't know what it's about though.

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