I can officially see the end of all of this... whether I'd call it a light or not, I dunno. I took total control of the class Thursday. I think that was ahead of the schedule, but I doubt anybody will care. I love the group of kids I am dealing with, I really do. They test my patience at times, but way less than I anticipated them doing.
My lesson on order of operations was going great until 3rd period came in and caught me doing something wrong with exponents. Now I remember why I hate math... I think they ended up more confused than they were before they came in. The rest of the periods went well. I'm learning much faster in a middle school environment than I did in an elementary school environment. Teaching the same lesson 6 times a day means that I get immediate feedback and make immediate changes- I like that. It does mean that 1st period gets shortchanged a lot, though.
Now it's a sunny day and I am eating sushi on my patio listening to records and writing this on my laptop- this might turn out to be the biggest perk ever. Time off is really all I want from a job- I want my time to yield the most money per hour worked possible. It doesn't concern me how much money is on my W2, the ratio is what really concerns me. I work at UPS with plenty of people who make 100K+, and I could have that. But the trade off is working 80 weeks every week- year round.
As it stands, I work that many hours. I had to start taking anti-depressants and my personal and work lives are in shambles. All to go teach a subject I have little to no interest in ever teaching professionally. Thanks for the memories, MTSU.
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