Reverend_Smitty
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Tue Jul-25-06 11:59 AM
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I just got back from the district office to pick up some substitute papers so I can earn a little bread in the fall, well it looks like I'm going to be over $200 in the hole because of all the fees I have to pay before I set foot in the classroom. Not to mention all the running around I will have to do getting fingerprinted and getting a physical. Also I have about 4 acceptable classroom outfits so no doubt I'll have to go shopping which will probably set me back another $200. If they were so damn concerned to find out if I'm a child molester or drug dealer, then they should reimburse me the $80 for fingerprinting dammit!
No matter what I do this year and until I go to grad school, I will be totally wasting my degree that has me $22,000 in debt. So I guess it's better for me financially to work as a sub making $70 a day rather than work in a physical therapy clinic making $9 an hour. Plus working in a PT clinic will only annoy me, since apparently in NJ only; being an athletic trainer only allows you to work in a college, high school or for a pro team...but once you walk into a clinic your skills magically disappear. I could get a good paying job for a year working as an athletic trainer in a PT clinic in any other state except this one. The best I can hope for is being an aide which makes less than 10 dollars an hour and was the exact same thing I was doing in high school. Personally I feel as if it is a waste of my abilities and certifications.
So I guess I'll have to suck it up and pay all this money up front because it will pay itself off in about a week. I just long for the days of being a kid where my biggest problems were deciding whether to play on the monkey bars or on the swings out at recess.
Ok thanks for listening to my rant, I feel a bit better now
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MsKandice01
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Tue Jul-25-06 12:04 PM
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Responsibility...blah, who needs it.
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Tue Jul-25-06 12:26 PM
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I want to retire and have fun in the sun. I'm so sick of being responsible!
Either that, or I just need a vacation?
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hang in there!
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Reverend_Smitty
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Tue Jul-25-06 12:34 PM
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3. I'm just having one of those overwhelming weeks... |
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the other day I had to pay $500 to fix my car just so it would pass emission standards in this state. When will that money tree sprout up in my back yard?
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Bullwinkle925
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Tue Jul-25-06 08:59 PM
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8. If you find that a money tree has indeed taken root - would you |
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please send me seeds?
Hang in there!!
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Bullwinkle925
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Tue Jul-25-06 09:02 PM
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everytime I see your pic of the Kennedys, it makes me think of the picket fence at the JFK assassination site...
:scared:
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GalleryGod
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Tue Jul-25-06 02:28 PM
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4. Rant? That's a Whine. And oh, btw you pay for that fingerprinting fee |
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"once in your life"..you get an ID # and that's it. So..suck it up or work at a burger joint. Sub teaching is not for the faint-of-heart, btw.
Just Sayin':rofl: :spray: :rofl:
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Tue Jul-25-06 02:29 PM
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responsibility does suck, at times...hang in there...;) :toast:
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Tue Jul-25-06 02:30 PM
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6. Hm...the cops did my fingerprinting for free. |
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This was in Illinois about 10 years ago, for a Wisconsin teaching license. I suppose nothing much is free anymore.
And good luck...I hear you about the little fees that add up. I'm getting a bunch of stuff in order before I go to school and they all add up.
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Tue Jul-25-06 02:31 PM
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7. I'm thinking of substituting, too. |
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I did it for awhile a few years ago, and I loved it. This way I can earn some money until I can find that desk job I need to actually make it in this world. Good luck! :hi:
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Tue Jul-25-06 09:35 PM
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10. I post a rant like this every few weeks. |
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Same boat, different field, different state. Welcome to the post-Clinton America. :shrug:
Seriously, we know so many people who were in high school during the Clinton years... and then it all just fell apart. And our lives are a vaccuum.
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