Official Bored at Work / Off-Topic Chat Thread II

[Feba]

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I mean this girl is practically filling the tsundere check list, with just about everything other than having actually said "It's not like I did it because I like you or anything! Baka!"

Also, lingerie pics. A friend asked if she was a model, she just replied "a while back, yeah."

Goddamn life is good

EDIT: speaking of life being good, my name literally precedes me now; I'm not just well known among my classmates, but every now and then I'll walk into an office or something and someone will just be like "Oh, you're [my Chinese name], right?", and I'll be like "uuuuuuuuh yeah". I've had a few people just randomly come up to me and start asking about things they heard from other students; the best one was definitely "Why does everyone say you're American?"

"...Because I'm American."

To be fair, I use my Japanese name with a Chinese reading, which causes a lot of weird looks, stares, people confused as to where the heck I come from, etc.

Also, my ex begged me to take her to a motel, which is a no, but I mean, score another opportunity I guess.

[Mezlo]

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Also, my ex begged me to take her to a motel, which is a no, but I mean, score another opportunity I guess.

/sternlook
And why not?

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my recommendation is to go to Japan.

a bit too long of a trip just for dinner... you poop

[Firewind]

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People who are recommending alcohol to Mezlo, as though grabbing a beer wasn't his first thought, really don't know him very well.

[Caspian]

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Also, lingerie pics. A friend asked if she was a model, she just replied "a while back, yeah."

I hate you a little more, right now.

And /agree with Mezlo. You're allowed one backslide.

[Feba]

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I hate you a little more, right now.

Dude, I hate me, just a little bit. I have no clue how this shit keeps happening to me. Luckily my friends don't disbelieve me, they're just equally confused.

should I PM you one

[Caspian]

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should I PM you one

damn skippy

Enjoy it. In my experience it (or something close to it, maybe not with lingerie models) happens every once in awhile. You'll get a rush of attractive women that want to date you. Then it'll dry up for awhile, then later something like it will probably happen again. I have this crazy theory that when one girl likes you, you exude confidence, which in turn attracts women and so on and so forth. So far, the rare times its happened to me I've managed to screw it all up.

[Mezlo]

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Enjoy it. In my experience it (or something close to it, maybe not with lingerie models) happens every once in awhile. You'll get a rush of attractive women that want to date you. Then it'll dry up for awhile, then later something like it will probably happen again. I have this crazy theory that when one girl likes you, you exude confidence, which in turn attracts women and so on and so forth. So far, the rare times its happened to me I've managed to screw it all up.

Reminds me when I was doing sales and living in Old Town Pasadena, walking distance to all the restaurants and bars... Dated 3 Hooters girls, 2 bartenders at a local bar, and had a walk home hook up plan. Good times... /sniffsniff

[Feba]

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I'm exude confidence most of the time though, because I'm fairly awesome. I mean, I speak three languages, attend the best school in the country (and the legal program, at that, which is only behind medicine), and never afraid of anything.

But I mean, this girl is probably either a lifetime thing or nothing; not that that's not fine by me.

[Aksannyi]

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Bit of a dilemma, nothing depressing or anything this time (in fact I am happier than I've ever been right now, just a little confused).

Because tl;dr

So as you guys are aware, I'm in college as an education major. Since I'm still in prerequisite courses, I am still technically not declared, but I've always considered myself an elementary education major. However, I've always said that more than anything, I want to teach art, but I don't think I'd get a job teaching art these days, sadly.

So a component of these prerequisite classes is that we have some in-school observation hours, basically you sit and watch the classrooms and see what it's like, to see if it's really something that we'd want to do (but also to tie into the classes themselves, one is the Intro to Education class and the other is Teaching Diverse Populations). We don't get to choose our placements, so while I stated on my placement application that I'd like an elementary school, I got placed at a local high school.

I was bound and determined to make the most of what I got anyway, because these are just observation hours, I'm not teaching, I'm not even interacting with the students, I'm just sitting there watching and writing notes. (And this might be a good time to point out that I wrote fourteen pages of notes my first day out. Yep.)

So I met with the teacher, who was gracious enough to let me come observe his classes, I had taken the entire day off to get a good chunk of my hours started, and I started to observe. There were a lot of things I could see but one thing I didn't count on:

I found myself wanting to be in a high school environment.

Well shit, that's not what I had planned! But I kind of loved it. I could see so much with these kids. The ones who'd participate and the ones who were troublemakers and the fact that they're young adults (and the fact that I may have even reblogged one or two of them on Tumblr without even knowing it) ... I loved it.

But here lies the problem: If I stay with elementary ed, I can move into the College of Education at SPC, where I go now, right after this semester, since finishing this current semester will get me my AA (finally) and my prerequisite courses will all be done.

However, if I choose to change to a secondary education program, there are only two I could choose from in order to remain at SPC: Secondary Math or Secondary Science. And I don't hate math, but I don't really love it. And science? Um, no. And either way, I'd have to take at least one more semester of prerequisites to get into the program, which further extends my time in school before getting my degree. Unless I decide to kill myself again and take another semester of 6 classes. (Not recommended.)

And then if I choose to, I could transfer to USF, which is a damn good school and has pretty much any program I could want, but is further from my apartment by a considerable amount and much more expensive than SPC. Not only that, I would also have to take other prerequisite courses to get into a program, and then I'd also have to actually get accepted to USF. Which probably wouldn't be an issue, but it's not as easy as just walking into SPC with my $40 registration fee, sending my transcripts, and registering for classes.

Thing is, I'm just not sure that young children are where my heart is anymore. I thought I would like elementary because while I wouldn't be following my first passion - art (and dance, of course, but that falls under art) - I could use art in teaching younger children. Then again, older kids still like to do creative projects, don't they? I just can't believe how comfortable I felt in the high school environment. I just don't know. I think I would be happy teaching anywhere. But I think I just might be happiest teaching in high school.

And I just have to weigh that versus being able to finish sooner and less expensively, because I really don't want to be paying off debt posthumously. I just don't know. Logically, I should go into elementary ed because I can go right in and I can always pursue another specialization later, right? But ... but ... I just don't know if that's quite what I want to do anymore.

I ran all of this by my man candy earlier and let him know what I was thinking, and he just gave me the advice to "make the best decision I can." Which, yeah, of course, but didn't help really. Then again, it's not like he can make the decision for me. Only I can. But he asked me about my GPA and a few other things and I got the sense that he'd support me no matter what decision I make, because Mr. Working on a PhD here knows all about education and has been my biggest supporter through it - and a very good part of the reason I actually went back to school in the first place. Makes me smile - he's been good for me.

So I don't know. I just don't know what I should do. Obviously I have some decisions to make. I will probably talk to one or two of my professors and ask what they think, maybe they'll have better insight, having been in the field and possibly in the same boat. Other than that, I think I'm just going to need to take some time and soul-search a little and go through the remainder of my observation hours and see if that helps sway me either way.

Thoughts? Spoke with a few online friends, one of whom said because I'm a writer that I'd be a really good English or language teacher, which I agree with. I just don't know what I should do. Pretty sure I know what I want to do though.

[cidbahamut]

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Thoughts?

Going into education is going to exacerbate your financial situation.

If that's your calling then go for it. God knows we need more teachers who are actually passionate about educating kids, but the pay is awful.

[Aksannyi]

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I'm aware of that going in.

Starting pay in Pinellas county for teachers is $40k, which is more than I make now. I have always lived modestly, and I can continue to do so.

[Feba]

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don't be afraid of transferring or taking the 6 class thing. I'm taking 22 credits; 8 classes (Constitutional Law, Civil Law, Criminal Law, Intro. to Legal Sci., Statistics, Taiwanese, Mandarin, plus mandatory Phys. Ed.), all taught nearly exclusively in Chinese. Yes, I am going to die, but I am going to die doing something worthwhile.

Examine the job market in depth. What kind of salary will you be looking at in each? What kind of availability is there? How do the hours differ? You're probably going to have about the same feeling towards the job either way, so you may as well look at how it is from the job hunt aspect and not just what you'll be doing. Will you need to get a Master's later?

I know that in many areas there are programs to support education students in exchange for employment later on; is that an option for you? Which will they support?

Ignoring your personal interests, is there a field where you feel you would be more equipped to teach? Teaching is about the communication of information; many people who are full of knowledge are terrible teachers, and many people who don't know that much are wonderful teachers. Is there a subject you find easier to talk about? Is there a subject where people tend to be more interested in listening to you?

[Aksannyi]

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All things to take into consideration. I'm not planning to make my choice overnight, that's for sure. And I will have time to change my mind, nothing is set in stone. I definitely need to sleep on it, do some research, and try to talk to a few of my professors and see what their advice is. And I'm only 6.5 of 30 hours into my observation, so I may end up changing my mind as I get further in. I don't know. But I do want to explore it and see what my options are.

Obtaining a master's is not required however I plan to do it anyway, for myself. Also, I already have a professor advising me to get my master's and she said she will write recommendations for me - this is a professor I've known about 6 weeks now, so I must have made an impression. So far, I'm really happy in my education courses, so I know this is something that's a great fit for me. I just have to decide my exact path.

[Feba]

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So about that girl, we were sitting in class, and she goes "Hey, feel my breasts." I did, then basically just said "Look, you should just be my girlfriend already.", she replies "Next year" (after her exam), I say "No, now.", "Okay"

Redacted conversation, but it was really about that simple.

Life is good.

[Aksannyi]

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Two people are listening to the President speak from their computers in my office right now, but the streams are not in sync. So I'm listening to Obama echo. This is not the way I want to spend my afternoon.