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Life's a mess right now - job ideas? UPDATED!
MikeQ:
Where in the S.E. are you.
Xam:
The volleyball coach job sounded good to me. I know I have had an autistic boy on my basketball team the past 3 seasons. Though difficult to deal with at times, I just found out he has "graduated/been promoted" to regular PE classes at his school. His mother attributes it to the time I take teaching him...I say it was his hard work and application of what I taught. That is why teachers teach...there is nothing like when the lightbulb goes off in their head and you know they finally "got it".
It sounds like you have many options to mull over. My advice...pray.
I know it may sound silly...but I have left some pretty high paying jobs (after praying) because I just was not suppossed to be there...not that I could not do them...It just wasn't my calling. I am now in an occupation that I love...albeit less paying :angry: I figure the happiness is worth it.
Xam
ChadTower:
I've coached a lot of challenged kids like that in baseball. Most places I coach I specifically request that they be placed on my team as I have a good amount of experience with them and strong resources to help when I'm at a loss as to how to reach a kid. I've managed to get kids that couldn't even deal with their glove on to be consistently hitting a pitched ball by the end of a season.
AtomSmasher:
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--- Quote from: AlanS17 on January 24, 2007, 08:14:54 am ---I'm a 27 year old programmer with a business degree. I learned what I know from experience rather than a classroom.
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Yikes, sounds like you and I hit the market at the same time.
Coming from Texas A&M with an MIS degree in 2002 was basically the worst set of degree lottery luck ever. Whole state was flooded with IT people from Enron and WorldCom that were desperate for jobs. :( I ended up working for the university and doing okay, but man, it was some scary times!
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heh, I also graduated in 2002 with a comp sci degree....I'm now a real estate appraiser :P The only people I knew who got computer jobs after graduating were the ones who had been interning for years at the company who hired them or became a low paid grunt programmer for lockheed. I've actually been thinking of getting back into programming now that there are computer jobs available and the real estate market is still falling. A friend of mine told me that if I learned ruby, I would be guaranteed a job.
RTSDaddy2:
MikeQ - I'm in Georgia, about 30 minutes outside Atlanta.
I actually saw a book on Ruby yesterday - I thought (well, no I didn't really, not seriously) "how 'bout that...my kid's only 4, someone's written her bio!"
I do not mind telling anyone that I while I am still scared and shell-shocked,et. al., right now I have to do something for me too. I am going to give piano teaching a whirl since I have a six month package from the school and see how it goes. I am not naive; I will either supplement that with subsitute teaching money and / or money from a part-time career at Best Buy, volleyball coaching, etc.
Bottom line: I gotta try a job that I believe I can FINALLY have FUN doing. I am just really, really sick of the politics of education.
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