If hard work equaled lots of money…
I’d be rich! Sometimes I feel like I work too hard for the amount of money I make. A typical weekday starts something like this: Wake up around 6 am Comment on blogs around 6:30am (if I didn’t hit the snooze button too many times!) At school by 7:30am (need my prep time!–grade papers, plan for the day, analyze the student’s work,etc.) Teach from 8:10am to 2:30pm Two days a week from 4:00pm to 6:00pm I have class Three days a week from 3:30pm to 6:00pm I help my...
Read MoreAre Lazy People Dumb?
I consider myself a very patient, somewhat intelligent, hard worker. Though patient and understanding, the one thing that really makes me angry is laziness. Laziness begins early (I work with children and see this often); first it begins with not following directions the first time you’re asked. For instance, maybe when your mother asked you to clean your room, you said, “I’ll do it later.” But never did. Then it evolved into not doing classwork and homework that was...
Read MoreMy Next Step
I’m realizing that my goal to purchase a house with in the next year is still many months away. I started out with a 3-step plan: pay down debt, raise my credit score, save for a down payment. My first two goals are going swimmingly; I’ve paid off close to $8,000 in debt and am working towards paying off my line of credit and my car loan. I used a debt repayment calculator and found that at the rate I’m going, I should have both paid off in under two years. That’s great...
Read MoreMaking the Most of a 3-Day Weekend
I’m one of the lucky gal’s who gets today off. As a substitute teacher, I pretty much get every national holiday off, a week for spring break, three weeks of winter vacation, and a full 12-week summer vacation. Not bad, considering of those 180 working days I’m home by 3pm. Of course, I don’t get paid on my days off, but that’s a whole other story. So, today I’m spending my day relaxing in the warm California sun. Oh, yeah! Our temp’s have zoomed...
Read MoreSharing Life Lessons, Even When Other’s Don’t Listen
This Thanksgiving I visited my family. They live a couple of hours north of me in a small town, and I visit them a few times a year. They moved to their small town (population just under 7,000) right around the time I entered college, I decided to stay behind in the “big city” because I had too many things going on. My brother, however, was only in middle school at the time of the move and had no choice but to move with them. He has basically grown up in a small town. Small towns...
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