As you might expect, I follow a lot of teachers on my social media accounts, especially on TikTok. And one thing I see a lot of this time of year is teachers who are being really defensive and insisting that we Don’t Really Get Summers Off, because of … I dunno, planning and continuing education and a bunch of other stuff.
I have been teaching for over twenty years, and large portions of my job are muscle memory by now. I very much have my summers off and I’m not going to pretend otherwise. If you think that’s unfair you are absolutely welcome to become a teacher, and if you’re not running to do that, well, you must not be that upset about my summers.
I’m a week into summer break now, and y’all, I am seriously in need of a routine or a project or some shit like that. I cannot just stare at my phone and take naps all summer long, and I am dying over here.
This has got to be Find a Project week. I’m going to a Counting Crows concert next Saturday, so that can be my reward for having a productive week, right?
Sure.
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I’m a school psychologist, so I can relate. Difference is, I have way too many summer projects to do, most of them things I’ve been putting off during my work year because I was too stressed to do anything but work. How handy are you around the house? I’ve got all kinds of repairs and a back fence that needs staining…
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So are you on the same schedule as the teachers, then? That kind of surprises me, honestly.
And I am not nearly as handy as I want to be. I tend to assume I can figure stuff out, find out I’m wrong, and then a weekend project doesn’t get finished for a year.
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Back in my carpentry days, I knew a few teachers who built houses in the summer. It seemed like a good fit, since residential construction picks up about the same time school ends.
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I used to work at a miniature golf course during the summers, and stopped doing that when I stopped teaching for a couple of years, then went back to teaching and didn’t go back to the other job. I thought about summer school this summer but they didn’t hire me, so I didn’t have to decide whether I was going to do it or not.
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Any new book ideas?
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