Real World...

I've been training a new employee over the last week and a half and it has made me think about a few things, the most important of which is real world skills.

I am currently a department coordinator and a teacher on the side. (And currently looking for a job.) This job entails a lot of out of the box thinking and this is not the first person that I've trained or attempted to train and that has always been the biggest problem. People can't think outside of the box.

But what I was thinking is why isn't there a class in high school that teaches you real world skills? Skills like how to fill out a job application. It would have been great to know how to understand insurance or at least what to do if you need to call insurance. Things that you shouldn't have to always be calling your parents about.

Basic phone skills would be a nice thing to teach people. There are just so many things that they don't really teach you in school because they are too busy trying to make sure that you pass the tests. I've been thinking on these things at work because it is frustrating trying to teach someone how to do a job when they won't think outside of the box. Some basic workplace survival skills would be nice. How to use a fax machine, printer, copier, scanners those kind of things. It would be nice to not come in on Monday to see that some time on Saturday afternoon someone jammed the printer and just left it. Installing and updating software on a computer.

Guidance on how to use the Internet to do research. Or just how to do a search on the Internet.

I know that these are skills that not everyone will need in the future but they are helpful. There are just skills that you need that you get out of high school or college and you don't have them. Not everyone knows how to type anymore and that is a skill that is nice to have. I know that writers have this skill or you would hope that they would because that has to be hard to do just huntin' and peckin'. It seems that I've lost steam on this topic and usually that means I have to call it quits.

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The highlight of my week...aka don't judge me

The last two weeks have been a little blah and a constant barrage of mess. To the point that there are only a few things that have made it better.

Like the day that I went to get ice and right as I opened the door to the ice  machine at work it dropped a new batch of ice. Score!

The other is so sad it is unreal. For atleast six months I have felt something in my ear. I've tried to scratch thinking that it was a little buildup of wax. There have been many days where I dig in there and just can't get the right angle with my finger and then just give up. Last week I had had it with it. Standing in front of the mirror I grabbed the tweezers and used them to scrape and then I felt it. There was a release of pressure and there it was on the end of the tweezers, it was a clogged pore.Yes it had been bugging me for atleast six months, that is a long time to be able to feel something and not be able to do anything about it.

It makes me feel really pathetic. That fresh ice and popping a zit made the last two weeks.

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Epic movies

Good evening.

I am still a little upset with Doctor Who. I'm not really ready to let go of another Doctor. I didn't really care for the Ninth doctor, and ten was fun but eleven really has been my Doctor for most of viewing experience. I've actually been catching up with older episodes because we got a totally awesome DVR which I've eaten crow about because I said we really didn't need one. (I secretly love it though. And as soon as my husband leaves to go to the movies I'm gonna watch an episode of hoarders and clean the house.)

There were a few episodes I liked, the space Titanic seemed to have some parallels to the original  The Poseidon Adventure which I have to say is an epic movie. Also another epic movie to check out is The Towering Inferno, and yes I really do like movies with story lines full of danger. I haven't seen all of the second one but come on it has Steve McQueen. I've only seen one movie that he was in that didn't impress me, it did however get me some points in a military history class. (Not that they were actual points or anything.)

I have taken on the task of starting to repaint the house. I have gotten the hall painted and it will probably need to be repainted a second time but that will have to wait because the return air vent is in the hall and it sucks fumes all through the house. I also have to find a flat head screw driver to take the thermostat off of the wall. I've gotten paint all around it and a little on the bottom but I want to paint now in case we ever have to change it out. The real challenge is taping off the trim in the living and dining room. I didn't do that in the hall because there is so much trim with four doors in an eight foot hall plus the entry to the dining room is trimmed so it really makes it five doors in one hall.

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Open and close.

Been a few days.

There have just been a lot of things going on with it being the beginning of the summer. It has pretty much been open season on teacher openings in the area. I have seen so many go up and just a few come down off the lists. There are over 100 openings in a local district and even in a small district a little further away there are 6 openings. When I say that it is a small school the entire district is in one building, one principal, one classroom per grade in one single hall, it is small.

I haven't been hearing my phone ring a lot with them begging me to come interview with them but I am hoping that will pick up next week. I know that one district has a board meeting on Monday and they may be waiting until they have finalized any remaining contracts. I know that in one or two they are waiting to see if any teachers want to chage grades before they start offering and interviewing.

So for anyone who wants to keep their fingers crossed.

I have been sending emails. Hoping that one of them will get me an interview. It would be better if the principals would stop changing which means the one that I emailed is not the one making the decisions. I guess there are things that I can't change and I will just have to deal with that.

see ya!

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