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  • mattw75 said...

    I got fired this week, along with everyone else at my school. Not fired fired, but we have to reapply for our jobs. I'm kind of scared that I won't reapply, that I'll just go to a better school and say to hell with the crap I put up with every day. Ultimately this trendy reform nonsense will drive me away from what I really want to do.

    Is this because your school didn't make AYP? Or is it because of the new contract you have to sign in Baltimore City?

    I student taught at a Middle School that is in its fourth year of missing AYP. A lot of tension about what will happen if they don't make it this year. I'm now student teaching at a High School that got restructured 2 years ago. Their scores are fine now, but they're a mess.

    As far as this thread goes, my job doesn't suck...except that I'm not getting paid to do it. I'm basically working a full time job, going to class every Monday night, seminar every other Tuesday and paying tuition to do it. I love teaching, but I'm very ready to start getting paid to do it.

    This post has been edited 2 times, most recently by b4lt1m0reterp on 11/18/2010 at 1:40 PM

    b4lt1m0reterp

  • I was just informed that Court Administration got my incident report yesterday from the judge. It was a paragraph long and sealed in an envelope with my name on the top of the paper and I presented it to them.

    Unfortunately, the incident report I drew up was three pages long. The Court administrator knew this and informed me that she knew the Judge hated their office, but that at least they knew I did what I was asked to do.

    "It's just so hard," Greivis said. "It's my heart, my love. Maryland made me who I am."

    RaiseHigh ●

  • this thread* inspired me to quit my job today. hooray unemployment!

    *not really

    BeadsBees

  • tiltdeac said...

    Residency application process is incredibly frustrating, especially in a competitive specialty. I'll easily drop $5k I don't have flying all over the country as one of 200+ applicants for 1 or 2 spots, and probably a whole lot more if what happened this week continues. Email on Tuesday to come interview on Friday a place I have to fly to. Thanks guys. Most of the programs won't even take the time to send a rejection if you don't get selected for an interview, so you just sit there in limbo.

    I can't complain too much, and I'm lucky to have as many interviews as I do, but this process sucks.

    yeah man - your post is a joke - and I mean that in a nice way. you've got a hell of a future ahead of you, while some of these guys are teetering on the edge of suicide it seems

    newterp

  • I'm a middle age guy who at 6'1" can no longer touch the rim. I'm at that age where my daughters friends are starting to look hot. Sick, I know. My dog has cancer, my wife has a bush, and my car burns oil. I commute on a scooter with a basket on it which when behind a school bus draws the attention of rear seat hecklers. I find myself enjoying cooking. Really. What happened to me and how did I get here?

    hokthu

  • hokthu said...

    I'm a middle age guy who at 6'1" can no longer touch the rim. I'm at that age where my daughters friends are starting to look hot. Sick, I know. My dog has cancer, my wife has a bush, and my car burns oil. I commute on a scooter with a basket on it which when behind a school bus draws the attention of rear seat hecklers. I find myself enjoying cooking. Really. What happened to me and how did I get here?

    surrenderlol

    classlessthug: I have too much on my plate to worry about the fact that my junk intimidates some needle D undergrad.

    eamhokie94 ●

  • i just started my first real job recently and this thread is exactly what i am afraid of.

    juuustin

  • juuustin said...

    i just started my first real job recently and this thread is exactly what i am afraid of.

    I'm two months into mine. Be very afraid.

    "It's just so hard," Greivis said. "It's my heart, my love. Maryland made me who I am."

    RaiseHigh ●

  • juuustin said...

    i just started my first real job recently and this thread is exactly what i am afraid of.

    I started my first real job 6 months ago hoping to avoid everything this thread is about and I failed miserably. Find a job you love, both actual work and the people you work with, and don't settle for anything less. I plan on quitting as soon as I can, but unfortunately not many real estate companies are hiring a whole lot of people these days :(

    rvilleterp

  • rvilleterp said...

    I started my first real job 6 months ago hoping to avoid everything this thread is about and I failed miserably. Find a job you love, both actual work and the people you work with, and don't settle for anything less. I plan on quitting as soon as I can, but unfortunately not many real estate companies are hiring a whole lot of people these days :(

    well technically i've been employed since the beginning of august but i have a lot of training to go through so i won't be 'on the job' until the end of january. i'll bump this thread in july haha

    juuustin

  • newterp said...

    yeah man - your post is a joke - and I mean that in a nice way. you've got a hell of a future ahead of you, while some of these guys are teetering on the edge of suicide it seems

    The plus-or-minus 10 combined years of medical school and residency day in, day out hell, trumps pretty much everything on this thread. I'd wager tilt is at least 6 years away from making good money. Most of the "suicidal" people on this thread will have their lives straightened out in another year or two.

    TheDexter

  • Bmore said...

    omgomgomgoomgomgogmomgomg

    juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuustin is backkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

    lol.. yes i guess i am back.. but with a job that requires me to wake up at 5am every morning. :(

    juuustin

  • maryland is about to lose their first game of the year

    i hate my life after losses

    stangs25 ●

  • TheDexter said...

    The plus-or-minus 10 combined years of medical school and residency day in, day out hell, trumps pretty much everything on this thread. I'd wager tilt is at least 6 years away from making good money. Most of the 'suicidal' people on this thread will have their lives straightened out in another year or two.

    doubtful - each year of my sisters residency gets better and better. And while she has at least 4 years left - there is no dead end in sight, no lack of friends and things to do, etc. His post is akin to saying "my life sucks because I have to work hard". yes - it's definitely not fun - but it doesn't compare to the people who literally have no friends, no prospects, cancer, etc. That's my opinion anyway.

    newterp

  • Dude, I'm not saying my life sucks. My life is pretty awesome. This particular process I'm going through sucks, but I am aware that it is better than having cancer. I wasn't aware that the thread was a contest.

    tiltdeac

  • I really want to leave my current company. The place is a total comedy club with no structure after a management change that has progressively gotten worse with every decision they make. Salary freezes, no room for growth or opportunity within the company, and poor relationships among employees = bad times.

    I figure this might be the case everywhere I go, so every 3-4 years I'll look to interview somewhere else. I don't know how the fuck old people stay at the same place for 30 years.

    TheTeamBoys

  • juuustin said...

    lol.. yes i guess i am back.. but with a job that requires me to wake up at 5am every morning. :(


    You get to sleep in til 5am? You sir are lucky!

    mt

    misfit ●

  • Is it possible for your life to be awesome and suck at the same time?

    I'm 30, I'm married to a very attractive woman who loves sports and encourages me to do the things in life I want to do. She also happens to be incredibly smart and successful and has a brilliant career ahead of her. I'm financially well off and have a huge group of friends scattered all over the world who I keep in touch with regularly. 6 months ago my wife got a job offer in Moscow, and we decided to take the leap and just move. I'm living in the biggest city in Europe in a huge 2 bedroom apartment in the city center with tons of stuff to do all around. Now she has another offer starting next year in Vienna and we'll be moving again. I quit my job and am working on furthering my education, traveling, studying a couple of foreign languages and in general taking life easy. I'm going to be traveling around Russia and Eastern Europe much of the rest of this year snowboarding and exploring.

    That all sounds awesome when I type it that way.

    Somehow though the way it feels is this: I quit my job where I was very happy and extremely successful to follow my wife around the world, totally dependent on her and not bringing much to the table. I now live in one of the coldest, darkest (seriously, the sun sets at 4:19 pm today), most unfriendly cities in the world. I have one good friend here in Russia, and the time zone makes it very inconvenient to keep in touch with the rest of my friends. I'm inside my apartment the vast majority of every day putzing around on the internet or studying. The nightlife scene is very heavily tilted towards singles trying to meet Russian girls, so my wife and I have struggled to really find a niche for ourselves and stay in a lot more than we used to back in NYC.

    In other words, I'm in a big funk right now - but I feel like I have no excuse to be. How is this happening? I'm thinking of taking a short term consulting contract back in NYC just to get my mojo back and feel valuable again. Is it wrong that my self value seems to be tied to working? I thought I'd love doing nothing and travelling - but after a few months it just seems pointless.

    vadimivich

  • Your forgot the part about Paul Hewitt coaching your basketball team.

    beantowntigah

  • and the part where you don't want to leave your attractive wife alone in Europe....

    newterp

  • As someone who is intimately familiar with both, Vienna is about a million times better than Moscow. Your life will be infinitely more fulfilling once you are there. Trust me

    Flops ●

  • my life sucks, my boy Flops won't even answer his cell when I call but has time to post on the boards.

    goterpss

  • Flops said...

    As someone who is intimately familiar with both, Vienna is about a million times better than Moscow. Your life will be infinitely more fulfilling once you are there. Trust me

    Oh - no question that Vienna is nicer and located closer to stuff to do (and friends of ours) ... but I don't hate Moscow. I'm half Russian and my wife speaks good Russian - there's not a lot of culture shock for us and we're able to get around easily and handle daily life better than most expats here. It's not so much Moscow as it is the "what on earth am I going to do with my life" part that I'm struggling with.

    It's just a feeling of doing nothing. I almost literally don't have to work for the rest of my life now (unless we get divorced) and that's a tough adjustment. I need to figure out a career that's flexible enough for me to move regularly and live remotely.

    vadimivich

  • roflmao

    Edit: This was in response to bestandbright's post, which apparently has been deleted.

    This post was edited by jsh on 11/19/2010 at 3:17 PM

    jsh ●

  • vadimivich said...

    I almost literally don't have to work for the rest of my life now (unless we get divorced) and that's a tough adjustment. I need to figure out a career that's flexible enough for me to move regularly and live remotely.

    Yeah, I can see why your life sucks. It's kind of like struggle to figure out if I'm eating steak or lobster each night after my daily blow job from my pet Swedish model.

    TomsOfMD

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