Father's Day recap
Jun. 18th, 2007 09:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wordinistaWe went to Mom's house for Father's Day, did a whole big cookout thing -- my uncle and aunt came over with their two little girls (8 and 10), and we just had a fun day hanging out and swimming. Today Tora and I are both sunburned and Darwin's exhausted. (He's got a bit of a sunburn on his nose, too -- I need to remember to put sunblock on there. Because he's got so much white on his face, his skin is prone to burning.)
One thing did occur that annoyed me a little, and it's still gnawing at me today.
My uncle and aunt have their girls in a Catholic school. It's a Pre-K through 8th grade school, and... well, it's a good school. My uncle happens to be very friendly with two very influential people associated with the school. He happened to tell them that his niece is a teacher. They told him to get my resume and they'd "push it through," whatever that means. So, he asked for my resume yesterday. And I tried to tell him, as politely as I could, that that age group is a bit younger than I'd like to work with.
Did he let it drop? No, not exactly.
I tried explaining to him that teaching fundamentals in grammar isn't my forte. It's not what I like, it's not what I want.
Did he let it go? Nope.
Tora and I had to pop home for a bit to feed Darwin, at which point I asked him his opinion. He told me he thought it was a great opportunity, and, hey, I've now got experience with younger kids since working at Sylvan. I then tried to explain to him that working with younger kids is not what I want to do. He then pointed out to me that this school starts their teachers out at $40K/year, and that it would probably give me some great experience for whenever Holy Trinity starts looking for a Brit Lit teacher (I disagree vehemently with this).
So I ended up giving my uncle my resume.
I'm not very happy about this little development. I've gone from wanting to work with college students, to actually wanting to work with high school students, and now I've been guilted and strongarmed into submitting my resume at an elementary/middle school for a job that, let's be honest here, I do not want.
I do wonder if I'm being overly picky here. But, and, okay, the intellectual snob is coming out -- I have a Master's Degree in literature. I do not want to teach middle school.
Why does no one seem to hear that?
One thing did occur that annoyed me a little, and it's still gnawing at me today.
My uncle and aunt have their girls in a Catholic school. It's a Pre-K through 8th grade school, and... well, it's a good school. My uncle happens to be very friendly with two very influential people associated with the school. He happened to tell them that his niece is a teacher. They told him to get my resume and they'd "push it through," whatever that means. So, he asked for my resume yesterday. And I tried to tell him, as politely as I could, that that age group is a bit younger than I'd like to work with.
Did he let it drop? No, not exactly.
I tried explaining to him that teaching fundamentals in grammar isn't my forte. It's not what I like, it's not what I want.
Did he let it go? Nope.
Tora and I had to pop home for a bit to feed Darwin, at which point I asked him his opinion. He told me he thought it was a great opportunity, and, hey, I've now got experience with younger kids since working at Sylvan. I then tried to explain to him that working with younger kids is not what I want to do. He then pointed out to me that this school starts their teachers out at $40K/year, and that it would probably give me some great experience for whenever Holy Trinity starts looking for a Brit Lit teacher (I disagree vehemently with this).
So I ended up giving my uncle my resume.
I'm not very happy about this little development. I've gone from wanting to work with college students, to actually wanting to work with high school students, and now I've been guilted and strongarmed into submitting my resume at an elementary/middle school for a job that, let's be honest here, I do not want.
I do wonder if I'm being overly picky here. But, and, okay, the intellectual snob is coming out -- I have a Master's Degree in literature. I do not want to teach middle school.
Why does no one seem to hear that?
