05-26-2018, 07:43 AM
I've been a school teacher. I'm about 3 weeks away from finishing up my fourth year, which has been extremely pleasant in terms of students and mostly agitating in regards to administrative nonsense and education bureaucracy. I'm looking into city college jobs as the next step of my career before I become too complacent and jaded raking in lots of money to work in city high school. Over the last four years, I've taught combinations of Physics, Biology, and Chemistry, whether that's honors classes, general education classes, or inclusion classrooms. The first year was a fucking shit show of awfulness, because I started late in the school year, teaching something I was weakest at (Physics, at the time), and they gave me the worst classes. Since then, I've taught other stuff and grown pretty steadily over the years. My second year, I taught 5 biology classes (4 inclusions, 1 honors). The students I had that year will be seniors next year, which is pretty bittersweet for me. Also bittersweet? I want to teach social studies/history, and my administration dicks around with it every year. I officially finished my Masters in History last year, and I don't think they realize how close I am to finding an Instructor job and fucking the fuck off. If I am still at my school next year, I'm considering getting an additional endorsement (HS teachers get cheap college, for real), possibly in special education.
I've been a football coach for two years. I'm the Special Teams Coordinator, which means I'm responsible for play-calling with kickoff, kickoff return, punt, punt return, and a handful of gadget plays. The change from year 1 to year 2 was drastic, as we had a new head coach with a very different (I'd argue ultimately a better) philosophy from the old HC. Unfortunately, our Year 2 was mostly freshman, and we blew a lot of leads and lost games we should have won. We're looking forward to continuity next year. I've been a science fair coordinator for 3 years. This last year, I did the whole fucking thing myself, and I'm still bitter about it (ask some of the staffers, they may recall my passive-aggressive rants in Skype). Even so, I've taken students to the City Science Fair (the third round) ever year, and this last year I had one girl miss qualify for States by like ONE FUCKING POINT. Frustrating, to say the least. I also run an informal chess club and a slightly more formal MTG club. I am solid at chess to the point where I'd like to coach a team next year, but I am absolute hot trash at MTG.
Outside of work, most of my creative energy goes here, if that's not clear. I did finally write and publish a novel, which is part of an attempt by me to be a semi-professional author. I was in the processing of setting up a website and some other stuff before I was pulled back here for both DA and some other stuff. I hope to start writing a follow up novel sometime this winter.
I've been a football coach for two years. I'm the Special Teams Coordinator, which means I'm responsible for play-calling with kickoff, kickoff return, punt, punt return, and a handful of gadget plays. The change from year 1 to year 2 was drastic, as we had a new head coach with a very different (I'd argue ultimately a better) philosophy from the old HC. Unfortunately, our Year 2 was mostly freshman, and we blew a lot of leads and lost games we should have won. We're looking forward to continuity next year. I've been a science fair coordinator for 3 years. This last year, I did the whole fucking thing myself, and I'm still bitter about it (ask some of the staffers, they may recall my passive-aggressive rants in Skype). Even so, I've taken students to the City Science Fair (the third round) ever year, and this last year I had one girl miss qualify for States by like ONE FUCKING POINT. Frustrating, to say the least. I also run an informal chess club and a slightly more formal MTG club. I am solid at chess to the point where I'd like to coach a team next year, but I am absolute hot trash at MTG.
Outside of work, most of my creative energy goes here, if that's not clear. I did finally write and publish a novel, which is part of an attempt by me to be a semi-professional author. I was in the processing of setting up a website and some other stuff before I was pulled back here for both DA and some other stuff. I hope to start writing a follow up novel sometime this winter.