Being an adult sucks!

[Reverend_Smitty]

I just got back from the district office to pick up some substitute papers so I can earn a little bread in the fall, well it looks like I'm going to be over $200 in the hole because of all the fees I have to pay before I set foot in the classroom. Not to mention all the running around I will have to do getting fingerprinted and getting a physical. Also I have about 4 acceptable classroom outfits so no doubt I'll have to go shopping which will probably set me back another $200. If they were so damn concerned to find out if I'm a child molester or drug dealer, then they should reimburse me the $80 for fingerprinting dammit!

No matter what I do this year and until I go to grad school, I will be totally wasting my degree that has me $22,000 in debt. So I guess it's better for me financially to work as a sub making $70 a day rather than work in a physical therapy clinic making $9 an hour. Plus working in a PT clinic will only annoy me, since apparently in NJ only; being an athletic trainer only allows you to work in a college, high school or for a pro team...but once you walk into a clinic your skills magically disappear. I could get a good paying job for a year working as an athletic trainer in a PT clinic in any other state except this one. The best I can hope for is being an aide which makes less than 10 dollars an hour and was the exact same thing I was doing in high school. Personally I feel as if it is a waste of my abilities and certifications.

So I guess I'll have to suck it up and pay all this money up front because it will pay itself off in about a week. I just long for the days of being a kid where my biggest problems were deciding whether to play on the monkey bars or on the swings out at recess.

Ok thanks for listening to my rant, I feel a bit better now

[MsKandice01]

1. I feel your pain...

Responsibility...blah, who needs it.

[Bullwinkle925]

2. I know - Goddammit

I want to retire and have fun in the sun. I'm so sick of being responsible!

Either that, or I just need a vacation?

:shrug:


hang in there!

[Reverend_Smitty]

3. I'm just having one of those overwhelming weeks...

the other day I had to pay $500 to fix my car just so it would pass emission standards in this state. When will that money tree sprout up in my back yard?

[Bullwinkle925]

8. If you find that a money tree has indeed taken root - would you

please send me seeds?

Hang in there!!

[Bullwinkle925]

9. by-the-way

everytime I see your pic of the Kennedys, it makes me think of the picket fence at the JFK assassination site...

:scared:

[GalleryGod]

4. Rant? That's a Whine. And oh, btw you pay for that fingerprinting fee

"once in your life"..you get an ID # and that's it.
So..suck it up or work at a burger joint. Sub teaching is not for the faint-of-heart, btw.

Just Sayin':rofl: :spray: :rofl:

[Broken_Hero]

5. Good luck

responsibility does suck, at times...hang in there...;) :toast:

[eyesroll]

6. Hm...the cops did my fingerprinting for free.

This was in Illinois about 10 years ago, for a Wisconsin teaching license. I suppose nothing much is free anymore.

And good luck...I hear you about the little fees that add up. I'm getting a bunch of stuff in order before I go to school and they all add up.

[Mutley]

7. I'm thinking of substituting, too.

I did it for awhile a few years ago, and I loved it. This way I can earn some money until I can find that desk job I need to actually make it in this world. Good luck! :hi:

[StellaBlue]

10. I post a rant like this every few weeks.

Same boat, different field, different state. Welcome to the post-Clinton America. :shrug:

Seriously, we know so many people who were in high school during the Clinton years... and then it all just fell apart. And our lives are a vaccuum.