tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15932919.post8944742235368698916..comments2024-03-26T07:07:14.304-07:00Comments on Teacher Tom: Time Is ShortTeacher Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14606781724784785338noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15932919.post-5567467621750930772009-10-31T07:22:27.220-07:002009-10-31T07:22:27.220-07:00I've been in and out on the computer lately. ...I've been in and out on the computer lately. We've had grandchildren in the house, so thanks for linking back to this post. <br /><br />So timely for me right now. You're so right about the institutionalized industrial training. *SIGH* Right about a lot of things, but this is your blog, not mine. Perhaps another time.MOM #1https://www.blogger.com/profile/11581360715920982011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15932919.post-6452456605995826712009-10-27T22:43:24.768-07:002009-10-27T22:43:24.768-07:00Time is short. I can't see the video because s...Time is short. I can't see the video because something or other needs to get done to the computer, but I did love reading this all the same! <br /><br />Time is short! <br /><br />I try to remember that time is short every day.<br /><br />I think it makes a difference!<br /><br />Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.<br />Mother TeresaAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07874897254332872367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15932919.post-8293736914614358992009-10-25T20:37:47.739-07:002009-10-25T20:37:47.739-07:00That was amazing. I do love teaching...I do feel i...That was amazing. I do love teaching...I do feel it is a calling. It's all of the other b.s I don't like. The paperwork, test scores, and politics get to me.jlohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04566462726407323596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15932919.post-82709848614060567382009-10-25T19:45:46.731-07:002009-10-25T19:45:46.731-07:00Such a unconventional approach. I like it a lot, ...Such a unconventional approach. I like it a lot, but how do we pay the bills?Jason, as himselfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16630210317307544165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15932919.post-73760002922813294362009-10-25T13:52:43.265-07:002009-10-25T13:52:43.265-07:00I subscribe to your posts via email and I found it...I subscribe to your posts via email and I found it ironic that the ad chosen by Google was the MBA program for the Foster School of Business! <br /><br />All that aside - I have an English Degree and all the jokes that go with it - but before I decided to stay at home I was in the software biz. I had enjoyed my first few jobs but the last one - eh. Often, I would think about changing fields but it was hard to leave the salary behind. In some ways I feel that choosing to stay at home has broken those chains. I might choose to go back to software but I might not - basically, any job I choose will be a step up from the $0 I make now and that's liberating (and scary). I waffle all over the place when I think about the "next step" and how I will fold a job into our lives. I definitely won't be working 60-80 hour weeks anymore!Monkey's Mamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01437699085199871699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15932919.post-13376593488868934772009-10-25T12:41:53.097-07:002009-10-25T12:41:53.097-07:00They were rainbow suspenders, weren't they?
S...They were rainbow suspenders, weren't they?<br /><br />Sigh. I feel the same way about work that you describe in the first paragraph. Exactly the same. As a woman, I guess it's both easier and harder to opt out of it. On the one hand, women aren't expected to be breadwinners like men are, so people are less likely to raise an eyebrow that I haven't set foot in an office in 5 years. On the other hand, choosing the SAHM route is often misinterpreted as regressive or anti-feminist; whereas when a dad does it he's progressive and pro-feminist. No fair.<br /><br />Staying home with my kids happened by accident (I was laid off from my advertising job when I was pregnant with my oldest), but these have been some incredibly happy years and I'm kind of dreading going back to full-time office work again. I won't have to for a few more years, but we won't be able to sustain this single-income lifestyle indefinitely. <br /><br />But it will be okay. I've always tried to regard my paid work as simply that: work. I go off to the catalog "factory" or the proofreading "factory" or whatever, and get paid for my services so that we can grow a beautiful life <i>around</i> it.Floor Piehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06533240227865369012noreply@blogger.com