quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Spending half your summer holiday working sounds bad, because for most people a summer holiday is five days, maybe ten if you're willing to sacrifice some holiday elsewhere. As a teacher, surely working half your summer holiday still gives you three whole weeks.
Hmm, is that really true? I get 26 days holiday a year, which certainly allows more than one week for a summer holiday. Perhaps that's unusual, I don't know...
If you read my post a bit more closely, you'll see that I mentioned his holidays were spent writing lesson plans AND that the timetable took about half of the summer holiday. That doesn't mean half of the holiday was free. Yes, we used to go away for a week, but both parents were pretty busy for the rest of the time. It wasn't uncommon for the marking to come on holiday with us.
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: But describing a normal set of working hours with a sense of outrage seems to miss the point a bit.
I was trying to point out that, contrary to what a lot of people seem to think, a teacher's day doesn't finish when the bell rings at 3:30pm, and those long holidays aren't quite as appealing as they might seem.
My job doesn't require me to take work home. Each night when I leave the office at 5:30pm, my time is my own. My weekends and holidays are my own. I can switch off and not have to think about work, and that's something I'd find pretty difficult to give up.
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Are teachers paid as 12 month employees there then? Here they only get paid 10 months of the year, so there is no way a teacher would do that much on the summer holidays.
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I believe they are. If it helps, my step-mum was enjoying an afternoons worth of 'work' yesterday when I called to see how she was enjoying her holiday.
In other news my step-mum has become some kind of turbo athlete. She recently cycled from John O'Scrotes, climbed a mountain on the way down to Wales, then climbed Snowdon when she got there. I feel utterly fucking ashamed of myself because I used the lift earlier to go one floor.
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That's not really news I know. But to be fair 'dudes step-mum does exercise' isn't really any less valid a headline than 'Paris Hilton in latest snatch-flash-o-rama'
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I still sell the Big Issue and have done on and off since June 2006. Being in London though I find if I use chatrooms and message boards a lot then people from the net recognise me when I am selling it and come up and buy it off me.
It is great when every once in a while someone comes up to me and says something like: "Hey you're steelgate off Lycos chat on ther internet aren't you? I recognise you from your photo on there. I'll buy a copy please."
Something like that really makes my day. Otherwise the job is totally crap and boring as hell.
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