Yesterday I ran into an admin down at school, talked about my plans to take the fall semester off/pull back from teaching. "But you can't leave, you're so good at it!" she said. Yep, $17,000/year and buying-my-own-health-insurance-good-at-it.
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She gave me the "you won't get rich, but you have to really love it!" speech. Like, working 4 other jobs to subsidize my underpaid teaching isn't loving it enough. "But I'm so sad, the students will really miss you." Yes, I am sad too.
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It's just...what...talk about your sick system. I went into debt getting a degree so I could teach students who are going into debt to take my class. Sometimes the reality of that just flattens me.
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There's an essay in this - a
@meganstielstra riding up and down in the elevator screaming songs sort of essay - I wonder if I'll ever come down from being so angry that I shake when I think about it.1 réponse 2 Retweets 65 j'aimeAfficher cette discussion -
I loved my school. I loved going there. I loved teaching there. I loved the students. But my love has been squeezed out of me by debt and the fucking unfairness of doing the *same exact work* as people who make 4-5x as much.
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At the start of the semester I started having panic attacks sometimes before going there. I'd walk around the block a few times before going into the building so I wouldn't be crying when I got to class.
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I taught all semester with cracked ribs from coughing so much. My health depends on leaving. I have two more weeks and I can barely handle two minutes.pic.twitter.com/GJHENkD697
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My dream is to win an Oscar or some big award someday and when the school starts trying to claim me be like "What are you talking about, I never went there or taught there, I've never heard of it."
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If I sound like I'm having a bad mental health day...yeah? The thing I love to do has been burned out of me in slow motion over 12 years.pic.twitter.com/MRJpaC5f7K
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Le chargement semble prendre du temps.
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