Is this a legit school or an indoctrination camp?
Thanks for the support 144u. It is a legit public school. I don't think it was concerns about classroom management skills that got this all rolling although that's what it's being presented as. Could have been a parent complaining and I got blamed for it with no way to defend myself. It all happened without my knowledge.
Morning to you too, Rook. I have an excuse. I wrote that about 10pm and fell asleep at the wheel. Woke up and hit send, went to bed and here I am with a career change in the making?
That's pretty much the same way my evening went too!
you sure can't tell the parents they have a problem. "My child? How dare you!' is the comeback, right?
The one's that are really bad, I think their parents know their kids are really terrible in school, they don't know what to do about it though.
If you first invested in yourself, you could have that nest egg flowing over to the point to tell your boss to shove the job up his ass. With the old proverb, 'don't throw out the baby water until' you can fill it up with a new job, there is your catch22.
I've saved up 10Gs since I started. Hate to kiss those BST rims I've dreamt about since 2013 goodbye but I might have to if I take the KMA route.
True, it's a little hard to find a new job without having the current job and I can't take a new job if I have the old job. That's how I'd explain it simply but in reality, I might have a chance of finagling a deal. The band instructor just up and left at years end in 2020 without a new job and he found one.
You'd think the troublemakers would change and grow up more next year, but management remains the same and those 9 that left, probably had a penalty paycheck worse than yours no doubt.
These guys got worse since last year. I don't think they'll be better next year and they just got one more kid who I believe will be a tough cookie. Maybe I can get his big brother to beat him up a little at home.
I don't see these guys simmering down until they get more separated from their immediate peers in high school...at least I would hope by then if I'm still there.
As far as the 9 teachers who made an exit last year, they all had jobs lined up so there was no need to sign the contract for the next year, they just fulfilled their existing contract and moved on. Covid shutdowns left a lot of time to job hunt. I guess I was foolish for actually keeping pace in my work when we had virtual classes. I was still getting paid so I worked. I haven't missed a day since I've been here. Three years. It's not that hard of a job that I need a day off. I get lots of time off already. ...but when you are job hunting, you'll cash in those sick days.
Maybe in the local newsletter the city tosses on your driveway, 'Summer Art Lessons' for said month(s) run before school starts... this is your 'invest in yourself money.'
Good suggestion. We have a summer camp here. I would need to be taking days off to do interiews though. Same catch 22 as working for the school.
You call the shots how you invest your cash at Van. They are not a hand hold kind of company. https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/stocks/snapshot?Ticker=QQQM
This is without the M, where I'd have to call and ask what is the difference, but it's a basket of tech companies either way.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/QQQ?p=QQQ
LOL I let Ma do my investing for me. She had 100k rolled up before the market went sour recently. She's working on it for me. Good ol Ma, hey? You gotta love your Ma. Supposed to be a downpayment on a house so I don't want to spend that.
I could actually live in a tent in the woods here for the summer and nobody would even know. Go swim in the lake every morning, nice and clean. Take a dump in the woods. The animals do it, I could too! I met a guy who told me he tents it all summer and finds a place to rent for winter. I'd hope to have a new job by the end of summer though. My landlady is so nice, she'd probably let me stay here free a while maybe for a little work on her farm.
Short of buying all/some of those in the basket(s) as an individual stock and grab the dividends to reinvest, you get the compounding going for a few decades, you'll be in the catbird's seat and tell the world to go fuck themselves.
Might just do that as it's getting less likely owning a home will be a good investment for me at my age. Ma's little nest egg might hatch into a big fat chick one day. In a couple decades, I'll be 75. That's not as good as telling the world to go fuck themselves as it would be at 45 but any age is a good age if you can do it.
Still, privateer is no billion dollar manager picking stocks to beat the averages. Most big name managers can't beat the market, so your best bet it to stick with the ETF's. They track a sector like the S&P500 or the Dow30. So more or less run a 1/3-1/3-1/3rd of those 3.
Ma has been successful day trading for years. Of course she had a good amount to start with. She gave it up a few years back but this is her one last hurrah. GO MOM!
As far as the situation, you have a job, but with a pay cut. Beats an unemployment check, right?
Yes, I thought of that. It would be better to stick one more year out here and make pretty ok money because UI will be half. Matter of of act, I wouldn't get UI unless I got fired and maybe not even then. I choose not to sign 21-22 contract, I forfeit work, I get no UI. School employees generally can't get UI even hourly workers unless they are dismissed on good terms. Sticky. I got it once when Milwaukee cut every single substitute teacher. Half pay went on for a long time getting cut every few months and eventually wasn't worth keeping track of how much I working underemployed and how much I got from UI.
You're going to have to cut some things like... make a list.
Oh I can cut way back when money is scarce. Money is scarce usually means a lot more time to hang out and relax. I don't need much when I'm relaxing. I don't even need to spend a lot on food. Good food is a reward for doing all the things I wish I didn't need to do. Potatoes are just fine. All of that is fine as long as I see the light at the end of the tunnel and I'm pretty sure its right there. Relax and find a new job.
So I'm still an eater. I don't have the bankroll to turn my head and stop eating shit the job brings. That's my suggestion. Keep the job. Create a side job. Pay yourself first with each paycheck. Instant grad is on hold.
Keep the old job, get paid the big bucks for a year, postpone the smaller bucks I might have to accept with the new job. Hope the old job doesn't decide to can me before year's end if I don't have a new job by then. If they do, I'm ready as I can be. Creating a side job here? Nobody has any money. I'm one of he well heeled dudes about town here.
Ma did some snooping on line. She found some tables showing I am the 15th highest paid school employee here. There's teachers with more experience getting paid less. I was lucky once in my life. I was on my way to sign a contract for another employer when my current boss called me to make the offer. He asked me what the others were payong and it was pretty good being it was the end of summer and they were on the spot a little. I really think I put on an impressive showing for them too drawing the VP while he interviewed me. Well the other employer offered me a thousand more because he was desperate too and I took it. The other three people who were hired at the same as me were paid 20-25% less than me. It's all online now. Public record. I know for a fact one of these coworkers hates my ass and now I think I know why. Oh well, in all sincerity, I feel for them. I only saved 10k in three years. They must be saving squat. I'm not sorry for being lucky once in my life though. Now I'm not so lucky. Goes that way. A good number of teachers there are making 15-20% more than me too and I know they must have gotten more than the usual $1000 raise to get to that level. I'd have work 15 years to get to their pay....well 16 now because I won't be getting a raise next year.
So this is the Catch 21-22 and I already take a dump in the woods having runners trots at times. I guess I won't be coaching the cross country team but I can rough it when I need to.
* Last updated by: Rook on 5/1/2021 @ 8:18 PM *
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