Not sure what to do...
Something has to change about my work situation, and pretty soon. I love what I do, and I have a hard time imagining my life not working with animals, but I hate my job. I hate my bosses for the way they treat people. And I'm starting to hate myself for standing back while they treat people that way. I feel like my continued employment there is taken as a sort of tacit approval of their behavior, and that really bothers me.
I thought I might have another vet job lined up here soon, since the local relief vet was making plans to buy out the clinic in Whitesburg and had already promised a job to one of our other techs when she got that place up and running this spring. Negotiations on the sale have apparently stalled out, though, so Og only knows when or even if that will actually come to pass. Neither she nor Renee know of any openings at any of the places where they do relief work.
So I don't know what to do. I guess I could just quit and focus full-time on my craft business, but something about that just doesn't feel right. Not having a "real" job just feels somehow unnatural to me.
Christy mentioned the possibility of substitute teaching the other day (she's heartily fed up with the bastards, too), and I've been kind of kicking that around in the back of my head since then. In a lot of ways, it wouldn't be that bad a fit, at least as a temporary measure. Subbing is the sort of thing you can usually do about as much or as little as you want--if you want to just work now and then, you can limit the schools you're on the sub list for or just not be available when they call you, or you can get on lots of school systems lists and work pretty close to full time.
I wouldn't have to work around the weekend schedule to do shows, because there is no weekend schedule and I could just not be available to work certain Fridays. The summer would be wide open for doing shows and taking care of the yard and garden. All the planning and other crap would be taken care of for me, and I said for years that I wouldn't mind being a teacher if they'd just leave me alone and let me teach without all the other crapola that goes with the job.
I don't think I'd want to do this terribly long term, but it would be something to keep me occupied and productive till I can find something else working with critters.
On the other hand, I think about the way kids in my class used to carry on when we had a sub. God, they showed their asses. And you can't tell me kids have gotten any more respectful or well-behaved in a classroom in the last 20 years. That might be a lot of shit to put up with for $80 before taxes. And people around here are so...touchy about some of the weirdest things. I'm afraid I'd inadvertantly say or do something that would have parents up in arms and that would the end of that gig.
I'm so confused. Anybody got any input?
I thought I might have another vet job lined up here soon, since the local relief vet was making plans to buy out the clinic in Whitesburg and had already promised a job to one of our other techs when she got that place up and running this spring. Negotiations on the sale have apparently stalled out, though, so Og only knows when or even if that will actually come to pass. Neither she nor Renee know of any openings at any of the places where they do relief work.
So I don't know what to do. I guess I could just quit and focus full-time on my craft business, but something about that just doesn't feel right. Not having a "real" job just feels somehow unnatural to me.
Christy mentioned the possibility of substitute teaching the other day (she's heartily fed up with the bastards, too), and I've been kind of kicking that around in the back of my head since then. In a lot of ways, it wouldn't be that bad a fit, at least as a temporary measure. Subbing is the sort of thing you can usually do about as much or as little as you want--if you want to just work now and then, you can limit the schools you're on the sub list for or just not be available when they call you, or you can get on lots of school systems lists and work pretty close to full time.
I wouldn't have to work around the weekend schedule to do shows, because there is no weekend schedule and I could just not be available to work certain Fridays. The summer would be wide open for doing shows and taking care of the yard and garden. All the planning and other crap would be taken care of for me, and I said for years that I wouldn't mind being a teacher if they'd just leave me alone and let me teach without all the other crapola that goes with the job.
I don't think I'd want to do this terribly long term, but it would be something to keep me occupied and productive till I can find something else working with critters.
On the other hand, I think about the way kids in my class used to carry on when we had a sub. God, they showed their asses. And you can't tell me kids have gotten any more respectful or well-behaved in a classroom in the last 20 years. That might be a lot of shit to put up with for $80 before taxes. And people around here are so...touchy about some of the weirdest things. I'm afraid I'd inadvertantly say or do something that would have parents up in arms and that would the end of that gig.
I'm so confused. Anybody got any input?