[HPFGU-OTChatter] Do You Guys Like Your Jobs? Really? Come On, Be Honest.

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

At 11:47 PM +0000 5/5/03, Cindy C. wrote:
>Hey,
>
>I've been contemplating getting back into the job market one of
>these days, hopefully not too soon, mind.  And every time I think
>about it, it depresses me.  Does *anyone* like their job?  What kind
>of job is it, and why do you like it?

I teach high school kids math in an urban high school in the Houston 
metro area.

I can't say I like my job every day.  I certainly can't say it's not 
stressful.  But I can say I wouldn't give it up for anything.  And, 
now that it looks like I'll mostly be working with the brighter (or 
at least more motivated) kids, I anticipate next year being even 
better than this one.

>In my profession, the really fun jobs require you to kill yourself
>with long hours and travel, and the stable jobs are worse than
>watching paint dry.  Are other professions/jobs like that?

Long hours are a problem in teaching, although perhaps not as much as 
other jobs (and you can always bring the grading home, if you really 
want to).  Travel is not.  Boredom, when one is working with 
teenagers, is not an issue!

-- 

  - Boggles, aka J. C. B. Ramon			boggles(at)earthlink.net
"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the 
act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. "
	- Gauss, in a Letter to Bolyai, 1808.