Blogs are the Devil

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.