The fact that tonight is the last night I have to teach a class is making me ridiculously happy. I work at a community college supervising fun classes that adults take for enrichment, not college credit towards a degree. One of the classes I supervise is the Beginning Crocheting class. I know how to knit and crochet, but we currently don’t have an instructor that also knows. We lost the one we had back in December.
When I saw that we had enough students registered to run the class, after it had been previously cancelled several times for low enrollment, I didn’t want the lack of an instructor stop the class from happening and having to lose out on the money we would make from the registrations. They harp on us a lot about making sure we don’t have to cancel so many classes. So I volunteered to teach it until an instructor could be hired, which hasn’t happened yet. My supervisor adjusted my schedule so that I left an hour early three days a week in order to not go over 40 hours on Thursday evenings when the class was held from 5:30 to 8:30.
I liked leaving work an hour early. However, I absolutely hated leaving early on Thursday and then having to go back an hour and a half later. This was originally supposed to be an 8 week class. But the winter weather we got this season always seemed to fall on a Thursday. Students have to get the number of hours of class they paid for, so with one class cancelled, I extended the class to end at 9:00 pm for several days. Then when it snowed again and class was cancelled, I had no choice but to push back the end date. It was originally last week, but now it’s today.
I really can’t complain about the class itself. The five ladies in it are fabulous! They all picked up on crocheting super fast and now we basically just sit around, crochet, and chat. If they have a question, I stop and help them. It’s not that bad once I’m there. But just the idea of going back to work after I get off of work has seriously gotten on my nerves. Even though the sombrero someone crocheted for their cat sort of made it worth it.
With tonight being the last night, I cannot wait to go back to working until 5:00 and knowing that I am home for good when I leave. After all the after hours work I put in for 19 years at my old job, something about doing it with this job is maddening. There are already people registered for the Beginning Knitting class coming up. I will not be volunteering for that one! I’ll do it if they tell me I have to, but if they don’t…
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