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this is the part where republicans tell you you just sit on your ass all summer collecting a paycheck. like they don't sit on their asses every chance they get, anyway.

that curriculum does feel very broad, but looks good. it sounds nice to have the freedom to set it on your own. this is like a combination of several of my history classes plus some overlap with high school geography.

i think you're right that the most important part isn't so much the material as being able to think about it, or take in new information. i think about this from time to time when arguing with boomers who were educated during the cold war.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2025-06-13 20:00:25)

crickets on pushing desks together until conservative personalities started saying it was Bad?

"the kids won't learn to think for themselves!" to an audience who suddenly thinks kids won't learn to think for themselves. need to remove the bun a moment to scrape all the excess irony off that patty.

if the priority, like they keep saying, is to produce generations that can function in a workplace setting, collaborative effort seems kind of important to me.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2025-06-14 10:39:06)

i don't think any collaborative emphasis is really what's holding classrooms back. will have to consult with mac.

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

Technical Recruiter: the CFO would like to schedule an interview with you. Are you free on Friday between 1-3pm PST?

Me: Yes I am

Meeting invite: 7pm PST.

Who in their right mind schedules a job interview for Friday 7pm? This has to be some kind of weird flex, right?

Guess I'm not going to the George Thorogood concert tomorrow.

https://youtu.be/Qo1OSqBQYmk?si=K6SBb6JF6KF_RFYx

2:00 "who schedules a meeting at 430 in the afternoon"

i read an article i won't bother linking because we've all read the same thing over and over again.

"i'm a teacher making 60 grand a year. frivolous impulse spending was hurting my financial stability. now i don't drink coffee every day (and i'm back on track!)"

avocado toast.

The Chinese girl who kept looking at me seems to have picked up with some hispanic guy and is now pregnant, or has a lot of gas.

I had somewhere else to be, specifically not there.

get a social work qualification. you’ll be getting paid handsomely to deal with the daily drunks and dropouts.

had a very non-academic friend who went to uni of bath to get a social work degree (incidentally a very strong university academically, but these sorts of courses are ‘outside’ the traditional application route so you don’t need A+AA at a-level or whatever to get in; he basically dropped out of a-levels back when we were doing them).

did a few years of driving around and dealing with unpleasantness as you describe for the local county council. maybe 2 years tops before he got moved up a rung to a very comfortable salary, and it has been a continual ascent since then. he was making £50-60k a long time before any of my ‘elite uni graduate scheme’ friends.

public sector work in councils or NHS or similar is one of the only gravytrains left for half-ambitious normies. probably doing better than all the graduate management consultants or civil servants who ‘did well’ at school.

financially, that is. you still have to deal with gypsies and alcoholic deadbeat dads and battered wives for your bread and butter. but isn’t that scotland anyway?

Last edited by uziq (2025-08-20 16:54:47)

Become a firefighter. work a couple days a week, get a guaranteed salary and have time to do a passion project on the side.

also spend heaps of time with your family.

if you want to fight fires, move to the woodlands of north america. it's all part of the operation to flush out bigfoot.

Apply for a green card and a job with ICE?

It's as if the universe is giving me some sort of a sign to GTFO this job. It's normally an alright gig with the odd horrific house/incredibly distasteful individual sprinkled in from time to time, however these past weeks have just been a concentration of utter shite. Difficult, violent, non-compliant gypsies, hoarder houses where the air is thicker than a downtown industrial Chinese city, stupid amounts of double work because our systems are archiac. I've been making stupid mistakes also, which I'm putting down to stress, quite out of the norm.

Recruiter from the other job is simultaneously telling me there's no rush to fill the role yet has been calling me asking for updates on my decision. I'd have already jumped ship if it wasn't the fact I had to supply my own work vehicle. I should put more feelers out yet I'm too stressed from my current job to dedicate the time to search more.

I've put in a request for a week off starting 8th Sept on our new HR system despite the fact I only just took 2 weeks off at the start of July to see if it'll help me decompress and give me time to figure my options better.

My current manager is really fantastic, great lady, yet I feel I can't bring any issues up with her because of how businesses are, any complaining will bring about no realistic change and then will be used against you when it suits them.

The only real good aspect of this is how utterly fucked the company is in terms of staff. Lacking members, constant people phoning in, the last hire in my area lasted a couple of months past her initial training before packing it in, I've just trained the newest recruit and he's pulling sickies. The quality of the work that I see done by others (aside from the woman who trained me - who is excellent) is abysmal. There's one guy for the Aberdeen area and he's a bawhair away from being sacked despite being on track for a firing for the entire duration I've worked here, little over a year. So yeah, I'm a valuable asset to them right now, so I could probably thrash against the walls somewhat without much consequence. If they deny my time off request (normally you need to book 4 weeks in advance) I'm just gonna give them a sick note from the docs for stress.

thanks for coming to my ted talk idk if there's anything you can do but writing this has probably helped me a little on its own.

Last edited by Finray (2025-08-27 07:27:24)