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I’m Tired and Itchy…Don’t Mess With Me
When is the last time you took a risk? How did it work out? Didn’t we literally just talk about this yesterday?! I object to writing about it again. Instead, I will simply say that today I’m taking a risk by representing my department at a career fair for kids in the local school system.… →
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Work for Free or Volunteer?
What job would you do for free? My first year as a teacher, I was enjoying it so much that I sometimes thought, and commented to people, that I’m actually getting paid to do this?! This is great! I briefly thought that I would even do it for free. 20 years later and I honestly… →
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The Unchallenged
What is the biggest challenge you will face in the next six months? The great thing about this new life of mine…a life post-grad school, post-stressful career is that I don’t know what my biggest challenge will be in the next six months. While I was in grad school, the challenge was my internship, or… →
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Daily Prompt Response—Alternative Career Path
What alternative career paths have you considered or are interested in? Really? This is the prompt I get today? Um…nearly 90% of my posts since the spring have been about my alternative career path. Of course, this random question generator couldn’t have known that and I am always happy to tell anyone who will listen… →
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Things that are making me happy (part 10)
Indifference about my job. I have found that I really enjoy my new job when I’m there, but when I come home, I don’t care much about it and that is making me so happy! I’m going on two months of this new job and at first, there was a great deal of excitement about… →
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Things that are making me happy (part 8)
The absence of the Sunday Scaries! As of August 15th, I have a new job. I’m still working in a school, but not a school that I’m used to. Whereas I have taught and led a school for students in grades prekindergarten to 8th grade for my entire career, I am now working at a… →
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Julie & Julia &…who am I?
This past Sunday night I stayed up so I could countdown, New Year’s Eve style, to midnight. I wanted to officially welcome the end of my work contract. Ever since making the final decision to leave my job, I have yearned for June 30th, knowing that was the time when I would be able to… →
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“Inspirational” Playlist
Teenage me from the 90s would have loved to have an iPod. As someone who bought c.d.’s for just one song, it would have been amazing to build playlists based on different themes and emotions. Mix tapes, and later, burned c.d.’s with a variety of music were definitely in my wheelhouse. Granted, middle-aged me has… →
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The ending I deserve
I have discovered that I’m like a kid when it comes to movies. I can watch the same movie every day and not get tired of it. This is not a recent discovery either. The fact that the movie “You’ve Got Mail” only feels right to watch on a Saturday is a tribute to the… →