Hating work at the moment. * (I know this is in direct contravention of everyone's blogging advice. Can't help it.)
Hate it forwards, backwards, sideways, every which way. Hating it passionately. Hating it seriously. Just hating it.
What else can I do? What what what what?
* I know I'm not alone in this. Just check out the TES message board, it's filled with the likes of us desperate to escape.
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[careers advisor]
What else would you like to do?
Alternatively: have you worked in other areas before that you'd like to go back into in some capacity?
[/careers advisor]
Oh god. I couldn't be more with you. Erm, can we get married? I think each wedding guest is obliged to give you a million pounds which we could split, have an amicable but quick divorce and then spend off into the sunset.
Alternatively... haven't got a clue, except to tell you not to translate anything ever.
Two of my ex's have been teachers, and they both struggled with it at times. With the added burden of going out with me, I really don't know how they coped.
I think everyone gets sick of their job at times. Try and hang in there.
Think of the summer holidays?
career break? get a part time job to cover the rent, write a bit more.
What Patroclus said. And I like Rosie's suggestion.
P - I had a plan to work in museum and gallery education, and did some voluntary/part-time work in museums, but as it turns out it's a)underpaid (average salary £15,000 a year) b) demands ridiculous overqualifications such as MA in Museum Studies and c) is hugely oversubscribed, like every field I've ever wanted to work in.
There's a kazillion things I can imagine doing, none of which involve working for the government all of which take considerable retraining and pennies.
I liked publishing. Anyone know any nice publishers crying out for ex-teachers? (Not OUP, or CUP)
BiB, I like your plan. The only fatal flaw is that we don't know any rich people. Maybe we could be like the twisted C21st gay and straight Bonnie & Clyde...
Del, aww, they had a lovely Del though to compensate for their miserable jobs. Someone as chippy with authority as me is not temperamentally suited to teaching, it's very very hierarchical.
Rosie, oh I so would, but there is a mortgage in the pipeline which makes it impossible.
Billy, time to go back to the careers advisory I think.
Get together with a couple of colleagues also "chippy with authority" and open an exclusive house of correction. You'll need a bent lawyer and an address in or around Westminster but you'll clean up .
Do what I did: wait until they make you redundant then panic a little. Not too much, but definitely a little panic.
Only I'm not yet sure how it ends.
Arabella - you think you're joking...
QE - I'm crossing my fingers for you.
Why not write a novel about what a bunch of rectal swabs your colleagues are? Under a lame pseudonym, naturally.
Apparently, Canada needs qualified teachers, petrol there costs 58p a litre. Better standard of living, blah, blah.
It's a win-win situation for you.
And if you need further temptation of living amongst The Rockies, go here.
Dribble over mounties...
are we too old to form a girl band? can we bully someone to open a shop and let us work in it for a very high wage (a la The Mighty boosh)? can we find the secret of timetravel and go back in time and do it all over again but differently? is it still possible that we can be 'discoverd' as actresses or supermodels? have you still got that treasure map, we could follow it...
as you can see, i too am looking for a new direction....
good luck with coming up with new plans....
I wasn't making the funnies!
Re. Emma's eminently sensible girl band idea: RoMo always wanted to have a drum kit, I can play lots of jolly tunes on the ukulele...so what are we waiting for?
Move to Canada *and* form a band! All the best bands are from Canada.
Tim, someone definitely needs to write a novel on the insane state of schools these days. It'd be like Kafka crossed with Andrew Davies.
Istvanski - absolutely positively No More Teaching... ooh, Mounties though...
Em, we could form an Old Girl Band. What would we be called now?
Arabella - I can play the tambourine... I'm getting excited now! What's the gig circuit like in Texas?
Patroclus - move to Canada, form a band, open a shop selling maple syrup to Mounties... the future is wide open really.
Quiet Grrrl?
Ha!
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