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I am typing this to vent. And to hope.
I need a new job. I have an abusive boss. I have been a teacher for over twenty years, and left the profession last year to be a youth education director at an arts center. It could've been a dream job, but the administration is just plain abusive.
I got paid too little to work as hard as I did as a teacher, and now I get paid even less to run an entire program.
I need a new profession, but everytime I look, I feel like the only qualifications I have are to teach and to enable teachers to teach.
So, I beg of you, what profession could I enter with a Bachelors Degree in Education where I could make a better wage and be successful? I am insanely creative, great with people, manage scheduling and management and employees with relative ease, learn quickly, and would generally be willing to work in any scenario where I could make a real living wage doing anything. I don't care if it is tedious or bland. As long as it is not commission-based sales, I'd do pretty much anything. I'd love to work from home, and sink myself into it wholeheartedly, finally being able to support my family, but nothing seems to fit my experience.
In other words, where can a teacher who is approaching 50 work outside of education?! I am so in need of suggestions. Sorry. Just saw that somebody asked how I am doing, and all I am doing is dreading every day.
I feel you, comrade. I just retired from teaching after 20 years, and I couldn’t have stayed one more second. Insane Admin w/in and Politics w/out nearly broke me.
My humble suggestion for next steps: double down and take the education mission even deeper and teach in a lockdown facility, youth authority or jail. The admin and politics will probably be more insane than ever but the upside (mission wise) is even greater - you’re a teacher so I know you know what I mean. And you and your talents are sorely needed in those settings.
My other humble suggestion is to hang out your own shingle, and go indie- pick an area (arts program? Up to you) get you some grant money and do it like a boss.
Hey @McD big love, brother!!! I’m good. Kids are good, my bride is writing the next one…I retired (see above) and it is time to get back to full time making music, movies, and the stories. Fuck yes.
@FlightManual You might find more individuals like you and open your very own private school. It's not too late. You probably won't continue teaching forever but at some point, you'll handle administration the way you want it to be.
Doing well!
I’m on week #5 since quitting cigarettes (again!)
I’m already finding more time and money, and taking advantage of keeping my mind and fingers busy with music stuff. Just cleaned out my home studio today and rebuilt everything from the ground up. Feels amazing!
We’re living in my ex wife gf’s office for two weeks. Returning to a home tomorrow with new flooring. Looks beautiful and no more dust mite infested carpets. Our lungs are looking forward to it! Finished 13 tracks while we were here. Turned 73 on Saturday. Life is good.
Happy Birthday, LL! 🥳
Just finished work for the summer, had a productive year making music but really miss not gigging. Decided to make some music going ipad only and a label really liked what I was doing and is going to release few of them which was a nice surprise.
Taking my son into town today for lunch and toy shopping, first time in a year and he's been asking every day when covid is going away so he can go on the bus with daddy, he's only 5.
So yeah all good and enjoying reading others updates, quality post 😀
Doing pretty well. Livin' the country life in midwest US, and trying to enjoy grilling out and beers/cigars on the patio before it's cold again.
). Just missed that 100+ heat by a couple days.
Just had a great vacation in Seattle area (Mt. Rainier, Olympic Peninsula, Space Needle, Gas Works Park, Pike Place Market gum wall
Trying to get some music writing going again for another album release end of the year...getting a late start
@LinearLineman From one moderately old fart to another more moderately old fart happy birthday!
Our days of birth in cyclical calendaring are but days apart! I hail thee fellow Cancer ♋️ and admire our similarities and coincidental conviviality.
Meh. First day back from many days off and I see this ... guess I'd better keep it to myself.
Nice to read how everyone else is doing. Looking forward to many days/weeks/months/etc. ahead of music making. Or something like that.
Thanks asking. Its tough for me right now my wife is the sole bread winner. I have arthritis in my feet, knees, hip and worse of all in my hands. It makes functioning properly difficult, I thank God for my ipad. It allows me to create musical ideas without having to physically play an instrument which at least allows me to be creative. My wife is a nurse and works mostly from home on the computer and phone dealing with child cases of domestic abuse which since Covid has risen 25% in the Uk. My duaghter has finished college but presently struggles to get an apprenticeship in hairdressing. So things are tough. Hopefully we will come out of this crazy situation which its claws I know everyone has felt.
A little bored right now.
Is it me, or is Spain vs Italy the most uninspired game of the European Championships so far?
Enjoyed some fantastic quarter finals, but this one has been a real dud so far.
Forza Azzurri!
Well, I spoke and things picked up…
You're welcome!
Well… on the 14th day after the 2nd Covid shot my wife said “take me to the ER”. That was April 27. She had stomach pain that was increasing over the previous year and at this point it was making sleeping difficult. For other medical reasons she had reasons to believe she would loose a Covid lottery so the hospital was a desperate option.
Scans revealed a diseased Gall Bladder which explains a lot of assumed food allergies.
Operation and home a week later.
After a week at home she developed intense stomach pains… back to the ER. Scabs don’t show anything so they want to send her home. I explained that her the pains needed the strong and hard to get stuff so they kept her. The pans increased and after another set of scans they saw a leaking intestine. This it a usual post surgical complication from the drugs used for surgery. They shut down the peristalsis. The fecal matter compacts and the intestines rupture.
The surgeon advises that she might not survive a 2nd surgery. But she wants to take the risk but with no CPR to avoid the chest fractures.
3 weeks in ICU on a ventilator and fed from IV’s… she looses all fat and most muscke mass.
3 weeks later she’s close to getting booted out of the hospital having defeated sepsis and a few other life threatening conditions.
Now we face a few months of rehab work to get back close to the normal of 2019. But she’s also got SLL which is likely why her gall bladder got infected in the first place. So, chemo to put that into remission.
Thanks for asking… life is a journey and we each get our own itinerary.
TIP: monitor your stools after surgeries. Failure to keep an eye on it could kill you. I had 2 surgeries and they didn’t release me without a good poop. Her surgeon didn’t give us any post surgical documentation. He ended up doing three surgeries in all… the third was a debreeing of the 2nd surgery incision to remove necrotic tissue.
Thanks for asking… life is a journey and we each get our own itinerary. I finally felt comfortable answering the question on July 7. Hospitals are good places to watch TV shows and lousy places to visit. Last year at this time I would have had to use FaceTime to check on her but I could usually spend 4-6 hours with her post-Covid era.
Jesus @McD my heart goes out to you and your wife
PM if you ever need to talk
@McD
My thoughts and prayers are with you and wife.
🙏🏾
I have been trading PM’s with @linearlineman which helped function as a journal of the events. We both got a shock when our months of emails disappeared one day last week. Has anyone had that experience.
Thanks.
@McD Hope that things are going to improve from here on. Sounds like you have had a lot to deal with, so hope for only good news for you from here onwards.
I think the worst is behind us now.
Thank you for your kind thoughts.
Thanks @gusgranite and @audiblevideo for the birthday wishes. And you, too, @CapnWillie for the Cancerian congrats. I bet a disproportionate number here are Moon Children and left handed, to boot!
@McD, glad you were finally able to share some of the unbearable pain with forum members. Good luck with it all and remember to treat yourself well.
I think I can finally believe there's an end to this nightmare. Now we just need to do the work to regain function.
And get through the 18 months of chemo once she's strong again.
Gosh, @McD! I'm sorry to hear what you had to go through. Wish all the best to you and family, and hope for full recovery soon!
Let me second that, this is what I thought when I read your account. Fellow teacher here, at least by education. In my experience, training / coaching adults, especially in a corporate situation is much less fun than working with children - but OTOH usually implies much less stupid admin and much better conditions commercially. Chin up, and just know that your profession is one of the few that robots will not take over any time soon.
In other news, covid life has been peaceful and boring over here. Lucky to have been able to switch to home working right away and keep my job throughout.
Have been (technically) in some sort of lockdown or restricted situation for most of the last 16 months or so. On the surface, it's been going surprisingly easy. People have been very cooperative, following the rules and helping each other out a lot around here, it feels like living in a good community. Young people had a crap time for sure, with all the social restrictions, but luckily anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers and other "freedom fighters" were mostly seen only in foreign news reports.
Still, I keep discovering subtle signs of how this never-before situation has changed most of us, including myself. Wonder what the "new normal" is going to be like.
@McD hard to know what you say after reading that but honestly do wish the best for your wife and hope you are coping ok
@McD So sorry to hear this news but feel privileged that you would share it with us. Thoughts and prayers for you both for better times.
@muzka I was trying to find words to respond with, these match what I was trying to come up with.
@McD Truly sorry to hear and hope for better days for you both.
If I could share from my own life -
I am at almost 2 years from my son taking his life. The Seattle trip was to go see some sites, but also to see where some of his ashes were spread over the Pugent Sound. Our family gifted us some art pieces by https://artfulashes.com/ and they asked us if they could spread leftover ashes in the sound. It’s in a beautiful place, right between Golden Gardens park and Bainbridge Island, with a view of the Olympic Mountains.
I truly hope all that are going through tough times can come through them and find peace. I’m still working on it - time with the family helps, and playing/making music also. And having a cigar every now and again, which I started recently to try and share something with my son. I gave him a lot of crap about smoking when he was still with us, which is something I regret. Should have just let it go. Now that I tried cigars, I actually like them.
Thank you.
She is a fighter and coming home tomorrow to regain some control.
Thank you, sir.