If you don't have anything nice to say...
But some things just need to be said (or maybe vented). Better to do it in my journal and away from the forum where it is being discussed. Someone posted Sunday that they got married and Monday said how excited she was that she could finally tell everyone that she is pregnant. Dozens of congratulations and I couldn't bring myself to add to it. I just don't think in the current economic crisis having children is a good idea. I know she graduated when I did so we've got the same student loans looming over us and I know she doesn't have a job in her field either. I don't know if she has a job at all. Someone even posted that they were "proud of her". Are you really? People have been havin' babies since the beginning of people. Is it really something to be proud of an unplanned, ill-timed pregnancy? Irresponsible.
And other people I know quitting their jobs without something else lined up, hoping to get a lesser paying job just to have something? I wouldn't quit a job in a good economy without something else lined up.
I guess I shouldn't talk when I turned down a job at the beginning of the school year. But here are the facts:
The job was for the entire school year and would have been for LESS than what I made teaching for just 5 months last year. By cutting out my conference/planning period they were calling it part-time despite the fact that I would still have to plan and have parent/teacher conferences. I would also have to work from 8-5 everyday and one Saturday a month. So essentially I would be teaching more than full-time for around, if not less than, what I would make to work full-time at a minimum wage job. And no insurance, no retirement, no benefits of any kind. I would have still had to put all of my loans in forbearance and would have been livin' month to month. I realize the economy favors employers right now, but there are some places where you have to draw the line. Not only was that insulting, it was unreasonable.
I love blossoms on the fruit trees.
XOXOX,
Loch
And other people I know quitting their jobs without something else lined up, hoping to get a lesser paying job just to have something? I wouldn't quit a job in a good economy without something else lined up.
I guess I shouldn't talk when I turned down a job at the beginning of the school year. But here are the facts:
The job was for the entire school year and would have been for LESS than what I made teaching for just 5 months last year. By cutting out my conference/planning period they were calling it part-time despite the fact that I would still have to plan and have parent/teacher conferences. I would also have to work from 8-5 everyday and one Saturday a month. So essentially I would be teaching more than full-time for around, if not less than, what I would make to work full-time at a minimum wage job. And no insurance, no retirement, no benefits of any kind. I would have still had to put all of my loans in forbearance and would have been livin' month to month. I realize the economy favors employers right now, but there are some places where you have to draw the line. Not only was that insulting, it was unreasonable.
I love blossoms on the fruit trees.
XOXOX,
Loch