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Another reason to not be jealous of teachers is that they typically have full time jobs in the summer.

I got a job working as the temporary Shelter Director of the Laconia Salvation Army "Carey House," which is one of the only homeless shelters in the county. They recently had to fire their previous Director and the S.A. captain was looking for a temporary replacement so that he wouldn't have to hire someone he didn't really want out of desperation. I just had my first day on Friday and it went very well. It's fairly stressful because there's so many issues people have, but I enjoy working with people, so it worked. Also, the pay is very good, especially for a 5 week position. The base salary is $2 higher than the sales job.

i didn't get the farm job. i'm very disappointed. i remember eddy did a sermon about disappointment for teen campers at the campground from 2 corinthians 4. what'd he say again??

I understand that people are jealous of teachers. In some regards, they have every right. We get off work at 3pm, we have several vacation weeks throughout the year, and then the real kicker, we get 10 weeks off during the summer months. It's a sweet gig and I can't complain. On the other hand, people have every right to pity us. We (new teachers, at least) work well over 60 hours a week. Sometimes way over that. Many teachers are quick to point out (and rightly so) that they work as many hours in the nine months as most people work in a whole year. And the truth is that most teachers that are worth their hire are also working in the summer 10 weeks, either another job or on curriculum or research for the upcoming school year. Oh yeah, and teachers get paid crap.

I'm looking for a summer job and have not had tons of luck so far. I had two jobs in my back pocket for a while, but have had to turn them both down. One was working for a local mortgage company in sales. The pay could have been ridiculously good, but I really didn't feel comfortable getting into that again. Not that I think all sales jobs are evil (you heard me, Shawn), but in that particular environment I would have had trouble working hard and "unto the Lord." I also had to turn down a painting job because we only have one car and the job site was 45 minutes away.

My most recent hope came yesterday when I visited a local farm called "Smith Farm." Farm work is really what I've been wanting to do for several years now, so I really hope that it happens. And $10 an hour is a lot more than I would have assumed I could have gotten for farm work...

I'll keep you all updated.

Now and again I'll meet up with a friend or an acquaintance who I haven't seen in a long while. Whenever that happens, I feel at a complete loss to "catch up" with them. How can you catch someone up on years (or really even months) of your life? That's a little bit how I feel about catching anyone up on our gettogether in Tampa. There's just too much that happened. Too many conversations, too many good meals, too many prayers, too many tears, too many laughs. I'm not a good enough writer to do it justice.

To all of you who were able to make it, thank you. Thank you for one of the most enjoyable weeks of my life. To those of you who couldn't make it, New England 2007!!