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General => Rants and Stuff => Topic started by: Tekiel on August 24, 2005, 09:23:35 AM

Title: Yay to the employed!
Post by: Tekiel on August 24, 2005, 09:23:35 AM
I wasn't sure if this went in Happy Things, but I'm too excited for it.  I am now one of the employed!  I got a job yesterday morning at an elementary school teaching 2nd grade!!!  School starts today, and everyone at the school has been really helpful and understanding.  I have enough supplies to get me through today.  Wonder what I'm doing tomorrow. . .

Anyway, Yay!!
Title: Re: Yay to the employed!
Post by: Legion on August 24, 2005, 10:00:44 AM
Congrats, I hope to be joining you in the employeed field soon.
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Post by: Tage on August 24, 2005, 12:36:55 PM
Geez, they hired you a day before school started? What kind of preparation is that?
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Post by: The Jade Knight on August 24, 2005, 05:01:41 PM
Well, glad you're enjoying yourself.

My mother was an elementary school teacher.
Title: Re: Yay to the employed!
Post by: Tekiel on August 24, 2005, 11:48:04 PM
Well, it's actually the parents' fault, cause they didn't register their kids on time.  Therefore, the district didn't have the right number of kids per classroom till the day before (this is quite common and really annoying).  So the school panics and has to hire another teacher because the second grade class that was going to have 18 students at Pre-Registration time, now has 31 students!

Title: Re: Yay to the employed!
Post by: JP Dogberry on August 25, 2005, 12:22:11 AM
That's a bad thing. Nothing can be effectively learned in a class of 31.
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Post by: Oldie Black Witch on August 25, 2005, 02:17:29 AM
Perhaps there's some evil plot having to do with the overabundance of second graders.

My son started second grade on Monday, and because there were so many second graders, they had to take all four classes and put them in the school next door to the school he's actually attending. Wasatch is the elementary school he's actually attending. Right next door is Oakridge, a campus that's mostly used for special ed classes, but they've got a few rooms free. So now Wasatch is beginning its evil plan to assimilate Oakridge. It begins with the second graders. Resistance is futile.

Anyway, so now he has to walk a mile (figuratively) to get to the playground to play with the other kids. But at least there's a bathroom nearby. And it helps that the classroom is on the second floor with plenty of windows and the occasionaly Young Ambassadors rehersal going on outside their door.
Title: Re: Yay to the employed!
Post by: 42 on August 25, 2005, 10:18:35 AM
Congrats! Tek on getting employment.

To Old Locks--
Oakridge is a nice school. Though it may not be operating for much longer because the State doesn't feel it is necessary.

And my mom and her five siblings all went to Wasatch. I guest taught at Wasatch once, the class I taught had over fifty kids in it.
Title: Re: Yay to the employed!
Post by: Chimera on September 08, 2005, 12:45:29 AM
I am employed now too.

Yay!

Which makes it easier to stay in Provo and finish my last semester at BYU. I have a job I think I will enjoy--it is busy enough to keep me stimulated but not so high stress I want to poke me eyes out with sharp pencils.

I am working as a publicity writer for BYU's performance groups--like Young Ambassadors, Living Legends, Vocal Point, yada yada. It's pretty neat because I love the performing arts (one of the reasons I got the job). I get to go to four shows for free and take a date.

I could take EUOL, but I may raffle off the extra ticket to the highest bidder (start building my nest egg, you know). Any takers?  ;)
Title: Re: Yay to the employed!
Post by: 42 on September 08, 2005, 10:22:10 AM
Congrats, Chimera!
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Post by: The Lost One on September 08, 2005, 01:45:52 PM
Congrats to the employed. I wish to join your ranks one day but until then, I continue to stay in school, hiding from America's workforce. Eventually, I'll have so many college degrees or debt that someone will have to hire me, right?
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Post by: Legion on September 08, 2005, 03:01:50 PM
Keep wishing that Lost One
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Post by: fuzzyoctopus on September 08, 2005, 03:12:18 PM
Well I need a job, but fortunately my husband has finally found a good one and so I can take a little time and find a job that doesn't totally suck.
Title: Re: Yay to the employed!
Post by: stacer on September 08, 2005, 03:18:57 PM
Yay! Congrats to J.T.!
Title: Re: Yay to the employed!
Post by: The Lost One on September 08, 2005, 06:26:54 PM
Does being a plasma donor count as being employed?
Title: Re: Yay to the employed!
Post by: Tage on September 09, 2005, 12:56:38 PM
No. To the grumpy thread with you, jobless one.
Title: Re: Yay to the employed!
Post by: fuzzyoctopus on September 13, 2005, 09:28:46 PM
OK, the newspaper in the next town over just posted an open position for a copyeditor/layout person with experience in Quark and Photoshop.

If everyone could pray that they decide to hire me you'll have my eternal gratitude.
Title: Re: Yay to the employed!
Post by: Peter Ahlstrom on September 15, 2005, 09:27:05 PM
I pray that they hire you!

I was rejected from a job like that in Fairborn after I moved back from New York... (*sigh* worst interview ever, the interviewer said I was too passive...umm...)
Title: Re: Yay to the employed!
Post by: 42 on September 15, 2005, 10:26:52 PM
I have an unexpected job interview working in substance abuse rehab. I haven't decided if I want it or not. It pays more than my current job and I don't think I would have to leave my current job.
Title: Re: Yay to the employed!
Post by: Chimera on September 16, 2005, 01:34:26 AM
Is it a job you would like?

If so, and it would not drain you too much to work two jobs, I say go for it! If you find that you like it more than your current job and you don't want to work both, you can quit the one and keep the other. Or vice versa, if you hate the new job.
Title: Re: Yay to the employed!
Post by: fuzzyoctopus on September 26, 2005, 08:14:24 PM
The job called me this evening!  They want me to start on Wednesday for a 3 week trial period.  YAY.  (Hey, even if I don't get signed on salary, at least I get paid for the 3 weeks, eh?)  Regardless, I'm a fabulous hard-working employee and once they see how amazing I am at everything I do they'll love me forever.
Title: Re: Yay to the employed!
Post by: 42 on September 26, 2005, 08:16:50 PM
Congratulations!
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Post by: stacer on September 26, 2005, 08:30:51 PM
Congrats! Remind me what this job is?
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Post by: Brenna on September 26, 2005, 11:11:00 PM
Congrats! That's great news. :)
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Post by: Oldie Black Witch on September 27, 2005, 03:30:53 AM
Hooray, fuzzy!
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Post by: Chimera on September 27, 2005, 06:25:45 PM
Yay for money! I mean...fuzzy!  :)
Title: Re: Yay to the employed!
Post by: Peter Ahlstrom on September 30, 2005, 12:05:04 PM
YAY!

More jobs should do 3-week trial periods.
Title: Re: Yay to the employed!
Post by: The Jade Knight on September 30, 2005, 02:41:48 PM
A little late, Ookla.  =รพ
Title: Re: Yay to the employed!
Post by: fuzzyoctopus on September 30, 2005, 03:20:45 PM
oh well, it's the thought that counts.