That's "Professor Thomas", to you!
I received this in the mail last Thursday (I'm sorry dear readers, for not telling you sooner!):
(should I not be posting this online?)
What it means, is that I am now officially licensed to be a substitute teacher in the state of Colorado.
I was pretty excited about this possibility until I learned the following this weekend: the pay for a full day of work as a substitute teacher is equivalent to an hour and half's worth of web development at my (actually sort of cheap) $65/hour.
There is no doubt that doing web development as work is a struggle. I can't over emphasize this enough (which is probably why I talk abou it all the time):
My mood literally swings from complete boredom to complete misery to intense self-loathing* to brief moments of enjoyment over the course of a week. It wears me out, takes all my time (not just the working hours), and leaves me uninterested in doing one of my favorite activities (programming) for fun. I'm sedentary 15 hours a day (and the lasting health effects of that don't seem to be able to be mitigated even by regular exercise (thanks for the link Pete!)).
But to be honest with you (shhh! don't tell anyone), I do actually like it sometimes. And it pays very well. But that still doesn't change the fact that it is a struggle.
So anyway, I'm looking for a job that gets me out of a desk chair, and gets me interacting with other people on a daily basis. But the substitute teaching pay is really bad! I'd have to work practically every day a month (something that can be hard as a beginning substitute teacher, because you won't get offered as many jobs) to pay all the bills I need to. I always imagined substitute teaching being something I could do part time. Apparently not!
I've always said that I don't care about money, but I have to admit *gasp!*, getting a decent pay check is pretty satisfying.
So, while I'm going to give substitute teaching a try, my enthusiasm has been dampened a little....
Anyway, to summarize! I'm a certified substitute teacher! I could be "Mr. Thomas" to a bunch of kids soon!
* I have high expectations for my output and when I don't feel like I am meeting those (say because I am miserable and can't get motivated to work), it upsets me greatly...
15 February 2011 10:53am UTC • 173 views • 3 comments
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Lisa Volke
15 February 2011 08:32pm UTC
I would recommend you DO NOT take middle school jobs in the beginning as middle school students tend to be quite evil when there is a sub.
You could sub once a week or so and program the rest of the time. You'd make more money and could get out of the house sometimes.
Dread Pirate Benjamin
15 February 2011 11:23pm UTC
I couldn't agree with you more, Lisa! I'm not going any where near those monsters! High School only for me!
Peon Peetie
17 February 2011 02:59am UTC
congratulations, buddy!