Do you like your job?

darkangelism · 02-09-2005, 11:31 PM

Do you like your job? i miss working, it feels good to take home money.

Duke · 02-09-2005, 11:44 PM

I hate my job and feel under-appreciated and underpaid. The fact is that no matter how bad I feel about it, I'm fortunate to be employed and should be thankful as such.

Star · 02-10-2005, 05:59 AM

I love my job even if I don't get paid for it.

Being able to stay at home and watch my kids grow (now my grandchild too) I think is a total blessing. That's my paycheque.

Stone · 02-10-2005, 06:40 AM

I love the consulting sales and marketing parts of my job and I hate the clerical and bookkeeping duties.

I hate running the construction business but I do like the fact that I am needed so much.

Samson · 02-10-2005, 07:32 AM

Overall I really like my job. I view the entertainment value as tremendously rewarding.

Yes, I've held much better paying positions, but now when I'm confronted by some boob who has the nerve to ask me what I "make," I do not mind saying:

"I make a freakin' difference in the lives of about 150 kids a day!....what are YOU making?"

Merika · 02-10-2005, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Samson

"I make a freakin' difference in the lives of about 150 kids a day!....what are YOU making?"

Great response.....and very true. My Mom was a teacher and felt the same way. My kids have had good teachers and bad teachers. The good ones made all the difference in the world.

Duke · 02-10-2005, 01:03 PM

Thats fantastic Samson, I would have become a teacher if I wasn't so damn dum. :?

Samson · 02-10-2005, 01:09 PM

Actually, Duke it isn't all that difficult (here in Texas) to receive temporary certification if you already have an undergrad degree.

Duke · 02-10-2005, 01:13 PM

What exactly is it that you teach?

Samson · 02-10-2005, 01:18 PM

I'm certified to teach secondary (grades 8-12) math, physics, and chemistry for life, in Texas. I've tought all grades everything except chemistry. Currently I teach 8th grade math, which requires the least preparation and allows the most time to work graduate courses required for a Principal's certification which I'll have this May.

Duke · 02-10-2005, 06:45 PM

I did so poorly in Phsics I'm suprised that my teacher didn't ask to have me removed from the class. I just couldn't grasp how fast a dandelion excellerates off a mile high cliff after it deflects from a gulls wing and is caught by an eddie of wind moving at 15 mph.

Star · 02-10-2005, 07:07 PM

Those are all the subjects i hated in school, except for maybe math. I was excellent at math; i was a 90 average student in that class. but science and all that i couldn't grasp either. i hated it. not my thing.

Duke · 02-10-2005, 07:08 PM

I did well in art class and gym.

Samson · 02-11-2005, 07:33 AM

I didn't and still do not particularly like math. To me it seems like studying how to use hammer and nails to put boards together. Until you've completely exausted the "lower" math subjects it isn't very interesting; then in Calculus IV you finally learn how to generate all sorts of 3-D images, fractals, etc.

Physics and Chemistry are sort of the same. It is unfortunate that the initial courses of study are so dry that they turn people off from later coursework that becomes more interesting with greater complexity.

This is the case with practically every subject we teach: Avoiding at all cost anything that might appeal to the learner until they are so numb that they'll never be interested in the more stimulating subject matter.