Actually sounds pretty awesome

Sounds like the setting for a horror movie

I've affectionately called it a Canadian horror story.

I was creeped out on the first night because I don't have much experience with cats and all the spiritual stuff around the house was pretty odd to me. I also got the impression she was trying to suss me out because let's face it - it's a little weird that a girl would come out in the country all alone for a week with no actual plans. But it's turned into a really nice friendship where I've just chatted to a nice lady and given her company. Watch this space though, the bathroom door unlocked by itself two days ago!

Started on my second week at work and I've still done nothing but package testing with no end in sight.  Super monotonous. But I get $15 an hour to do it so [bleep] it.

 

Glad I got a degree so I could inflate plastic bags and cut them apart with scissors.  Really putting that $50k piece of paper to good use.

Glad I got a degree so I could inflate plastic bags and cut them apart with scissors.  Really putting that $50k piece of paper to good use.

someone's gotta do it

I really hope the job market crashes again in 60 years because there's 0 chance our generation is going to force our kids into college

I really hope the job market crashes again in 60 years because there's 0 chance our generation is going to force our kids into college

The job market will almost certainly "crash" many times in the next sixty years.

Sure hope so. I need to get me some properties

If I have kids I will probably offer to pay for their tuition if they go to a state school and get an engineering degree and I will definitely encourage them getting a degree if it fits that criteria.

 

What you've gotta understand about most of our generation is that most of us are first gen college students, with parents who didn't go to college and were told the meme that all your kids need to do everything you couldn't careerwise is get a degree. So you get millions of kids getting a relatively easy and exciting degree on topics that interest them like psychology or sociology instead of getting a skill based degree.

 

I guess my general advice to any kids I have is go in the direction most people are either unable or unwilling to go and you will do well financially.

Yeah, I think this trend is starting to change but the issue isn't so much the degrees as it is the fields in which they were earned.

 

Regardless skilled trades are a good idea right now as according to something I read we are going to be short of a lot of them in Canada in a few years due to the baby boomer and subsequent dropping out of workforce and losing that experience.

my face when CS and engineering degrees start to devalue rapidly as expanding global access to technology allows for their inevitable outsourcing

Male elementary teachers are incredibly marketable so I'm lucky

I wish I liked teaching more. As a white male I'd get that job in a heartbeat, but thinking about speaking for 5-6 hours a day in front of mini people 5 days awake makes me anxious

I could never be a teacher. I struggled telling trainees at Macca's what to do, when that responsibility fell on me. I have no idea how I'm gonna handle having an apprentice of my own when/if that happens.

Once in jr.high I had to give a presentation to 4th graders about cigarettes. It was an all day thing since we had to hit multiple classes and it wasn't as bad as I thought. They were all attentive, not disruptive, and generally pretty chill. Obviously doing it 5 days a week for ~40 weeks is going to be a lot harder but it's still pretty doable.

If the subject matter for K-12 wasn't so cut and dry I don't think teaching would be so bad. Like if I could run some sort of alternative-creative program at a school, that'd be dope. 

Interview in 2 hours at my local chemical lab. Weeee

Our company once tried having a tech support division in India.

 

It lasted 3 months.

I think teaching is something you should really only go into if you're really interested in doing it. Because yeah, it's going to be pretty awful if you dislike teaching and you have to get up there and perform every day.

 

If the subject matter for K-12 wasn't so cut and dry I don't think teaching would be so bad. Like if I could run some sort of alternative-creative program at a school, that'd be dope. 

 

Do they stop you from choosing your own book and drafting your own curriculum? I mean I guess you have to prepare them for the multiple-choice ETS shill at the end of the year, but I don't see why it has to be so boring.

Here in america, public education has shifted so far toward common core your lesson plans are practically written for you by the time you're hired

Here in america, public education has shifted so far toward common core your lesson plans are practically written for you by the time you're hired

Not true for some states homie (although I wish it was federal)

Here in america, public education has shifted so far toward common core your lesson plans are practically written for you by the time you're hired

It's not just in the States - from what I've heard the UK is even worse.

FFS, my mouse wheel doesn't work properly.

 

And I can't afford a new mouse.

 

And I will be bankrupt pretty much the whole next month since I won't get properly paid for I have been on sick leave pretty much over a month now.

 

Here in america, public education has shifted so far toward common core your lesson plans are practically written for you by the time you're hired

It's not just in the States - from what I've heard the UK is even worse.

Wow. Most already written thing I've had in school, that I know about, is Math last semester when the teacher was basically just reaching what the book said. Even then he took a couple of days and did different stuff when he felt it would help more.

 

Can't imagine every year just being a push to the next standardized test.

 

 

Here in america, public education has shifted so far toward common core your lesson plans are practically written for you by the time you're hired

It's not just in the States - from what I've heard the UK is even worse.

Wow. Most already written thing I've had in school, that I know about, is Math last semester when the teacher was basically just reaching what the book said. Even then he took a couple of days and did different stuff when he felt it would help more.

 

Can't imagine every year just being a push to the next standardized test.

 

Yeah I think the end of stratification, the emphasis on standardized testing, and No Child Left Behind have done such a job on the primary/secondary education system that, aside from the occasional teacher making a larger-than-life effort, prospects look pretty dim.

It's really that there isn't enough public funding available to offering anything more then what's required. 

Yeah, but how much funding goes into the massive number of standardized tests and paying to keep that curriculum up? Up in Canada, at least in my province, we had (not sure if we still do) an English test every 3 grades to assess literacy starting in Grade 3 and schools undergo accreditation every few years. Otherwise the only tests/exams that go beyond a single school board are if the province implements a new curriculum province wide such as they recently did with math and they want to gauge the effectiveness. Otherwise of the 12 exams I've written to date I think 4 of them have gone beyond the teacher who taught the course.

 

Maybe this all sounds like how the US does it and I'm arguing a mute point but I really don't see how a barrage of standardized testing with massive pressure put on results helps the education system do anything but become a meat grinder for kids. Let alone how you can say lack of funding is why the system exists when standardized tests are expensive from getting them made up, to sending them out across the state/board, to the extra money spent on having them marked in a secure and non biased way.

 

Sorry if this is rant-y and hopefully this stayed relatively on topic.