Feeling better now... I'm up on the rollercoaster for now. But now I'm still seriously doubting whether I should teach... or maybe I'm just doubting whether I should teach community college. Maybe next semester I should just get two retail jobs. At least you can leave those at work. Then I can take a year to decide if I want to try my hand at a PhD so I can teach upper-level English courses or if I want to just get a library science degree. Both sound doable.
I kind of feel the same way; since I'm still in school I only actually work around 15 hours a week, and even then my job really isn't all that stressful. I'm glad you're having a brief moment of tolerance, because I've had some personal miserable streaks in my life and MAN do they suck. It's really all up to you to decide what you want to do, but I would say just keep moving on. From what you've told us about other lectures you've done, you really do sound like you'd be a fantastic teacher; you've already inspired past students to think about things they wouldn't have thought of otherwise. I think you'd do much better in an upper level English course, where you could challenge students to do even more. It all depends on whether its worth it to put up with this semester of hell before you work towards it.
I guess I can follow up the sad wagon with a bit of news that I had a chat with boss man and decided that our working relationship was not meant to be. I'm not sure this is the appropriate thread though. I'm not really sad about it. I'm pretty neutral to the whole thing actually. Job hunting kinda sucks, but it kinda nice to have an open future ahead of me. I just gotta decide which way to go.
I'm not sure if this is really sadness then, since you seem pretty unfazed by it. This would be best put in a thread like "Apathy, fairly neutral apathy" or something like that. But I'm not sure if such a thread would last long, so maybe it is better here after all, since you may be sad later.
This is a stabbingly painful happenstance indeed. Hopefully his final work (The Waterman Movie) will get the funding to be completed. The man deserves a posthumous last hurrah.
Hey, my family doesn't bother with Christmas anymore. Other than the family aspect you're not missing anything special. Think of it as a break from all the annoying crap that you have to do on Christmas normally.
What the sodding hell do I do with myself? Obviously I've thrown ideas about stuff I can do with my life a fair bit recently, but when it boils down to it, I have no clue what I'm going to do. Do I go back to uni, or do open uni (A home learning course over here which gets you a BA) or work or what? It's really messing with me.
I think it's because of the fact that I have a kid now, and I need to do something and soon, otherwise all she'll see is this pathetic loser of a dad.
Don't worry, she won't realize your a loser until she 12, at least. I do have some worthless advise for you. Figure out what makes the best financial sense right now. How easy is it for you to pick up school again if you take a couple of years off to work? What are you work prospects right now? What would they be after you graduate? If you're working at a degree that'll put you straight in a career, then I'd make that your top priority, but if not all that much will change once you have your degree, try to find a job now and see how much progress you can make doing open uni.
See if you can switch that class to a pass/fail so that it doesn't affect your GPA. Will you lose the scholarship for 1 failed class automatically? I don't know the details of your situation. I'd say the first step is to speak with your advisor and your professor for that class and try to figure what if any options are available. Are you just going to be missing the one class for graduation? It may not be too expensive to just take the one class next semester as a part-time student with a loan.
Uggghhhh. That sounds sounds like an absolutely miserable phone call. Sorry to hear that... have you tried talking to that professor for a last minute attempt at gaining sympathy?
So I drove up to Dallas to visit my family, and (more importantly) to visit the kitty I adopted since I haven't seen her in like 2 months since I dropped her off at my parent's house.... and she doesn't even recognize me. Straight up ran away from me and doesn't want anything to do with me. Nooo memory that she used to curl up on my bed and sleep on my legs every night for like an entire month before I drove her to Dallas. What a bitch.
My other cat who I've had since I was around 12 still remembers me! Too bad, he's always had an irrational hatred for me.
I just want a cat that loves me for who I am, like Snowball did!
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Feeling better now... I'm up on the rollercoaster for now. But now I'm still seriously doubting whether I should teach... or maybe I'm just doubting whether I should teach community college. Maybe next semester I should just get two retail jobs. At least you can leave those at work. Then I can take a year to decide if I want to try my hand at a PhD so I can teach upper-level English courses or if I want to just get a library science degree. Both sound doable.
I've never really had an actual job, I didn't feel like I could say anything with no real experience of that kind of stress.
Good luck though, whichever route you take
Group hug, guys!
He'll be up in heaven bemoaning being called shirley with all the greats now...
Surely you can't be serious!
Stupid people, ruining everyone's Christmas.
She's still welcome here on the forum you guys, no ostracizing please.
I think it's because of the fact that I have a kid now, and I need to do something and soon, otherwise all she'll see is this pathetic loser of a dad.
God, being an adult sucks
And with my scholarships running dry, I don't know how I can fix it.
My other cat who I've had since I was around 12 still remembers me! Too bad, he's always had an irrational hatred for me.
I just want a cat that loves me for who I am, like Snowball did!