You were in my pool among the 5 selections 🥰

Syu will be fun, Saronaei still remembers the hot springs 😅

He’s so beeg! 🥰

I’m a little surprised it’s not Ray himself 🤭

Thanks! I don’t 100% know if creative writing will be my absolute passion if I get this job & work its project, but getting to use my experiences & degrees to create something with them does mean a lot to me

Small life story time, but I worked as an English teacher for 4 years after college just SO I could save up to one day go get an MA, not so I could stay stuck in that job

I’m the only person in my family to have ever gotten that level of education, so damn right I want it to mean something

Don’t get me wrong, I love teaching but teaching English was never my passion. Besides my workplace vastly underpays us & it depresses me extremely

I worked hard for years to get a Master’s, so it being undervalued just makes me feel like I wasted my time & I refuse to think my hardwork was a waste

I know right!

I haven’t picked it up in a bit, there’s so much I need to watch. But Fantasy High drew me in so hard (I need to catch up on Junior Year).

Thanks

The inconsistency, especially when you’re told to expect consistency, is maddening

It’s the best way, I hate giving an exact measurement number, so for my OC, I give a proportion to relate to “as long as his forearm and as thick as his wrist”

There, done 😅

It’s just, can a company not be a shifty slimy backstabber for ONCE? Like, can a company I work at actually care about & encourage its employees (me) for once?

This shit’s exhausting, what happened to professionalism? I’m almost 38, I don’t have time for my workplace to play these immature antics 🙄

I already had issue with this place, cause they only pay me for my in-person booked class time, meaning I DON’T get paid for all the work I have to do outside of class (ex. curriculum & lesson planning, assessment grading, administrative work, etc)

But now this? Nah, time to look for a new job

And that completely blindsided me, cause what you mean? I thought you guys said i was “permanent” & not a substitute, so why don’t I have a class?

Like???

I expected my class to change, though I don’t like the idea of change for change’s sake, but now that ends up with me being not paid? Wtaf!?

But what I DIDN’T expect was them telling me “your contact ends on Halloween, but right now we don’t have a class for you, but we might have one open up on November 24, until then if we have any substitute opportunities, you be the first to know”

So I’m essentially without work or pay for 3 weeks

At start of August, I was told I was no longer gonna be a substitute teacher, but that I was now a permanent teacher

But, last week I got news that the school is ending my contract with my current class & moving me to a new class. I’m upset about that, but knew it was a possibility since September

Mainly I’m very dissatisfied & disappointed in my job. There had been things I’d been dissatisfied with for a long time, but last week was the last straw for my wanting to try for this place

Reason I’m depressed is cause it sucks to feel like my trust in my job has been taken for granted

She didn’t say anything about it when I brought up the phrase. But later, she confronted me, having taken it personally as if I said she was a bitch although I was just naming the English phrase

I apologized but still, it’s like you’re kinda taking it way too personal/serious, & making it awkward 🙄

So innocuously, I tell this teacher, whose 1st language isn’t English, that in English we call that phenomenon of having a serious face like that a “resting bitch face”

In no way was I saying she was a bitch or that she was mean or angry as a person
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