So, you play World of Warcraft?Follow

I live with my job being a butler and all that jazz for my roommate. It keeps a roof over my head and food in my belly which is the important thing but at the end of the day I will need to prusue a job that will secure an income once my employer either gets tired of me or dies. Before I can do that I need to figure out a treatment for my IBS that doesn't involve the current take <x> codeine and try to function. On the bright side though it gives me plenty of time to P3Wx2 on games that catch my interest (when I can sit at the computer for any length of time).

Other things besides WoW, which I have recently gotten back into, I am into console games. Skyrim was my love for a while, still is in a way. Recently picked up Dragon Age: Origin for $5 and started playing that. I try to watch Grey's Anatomy but I have the hardest time remembering to watch it on Thursdays.

Recently moved to Augusta, GA from Nebraska this last October. So there are a lot more things around here than corn and more corn. So the next year should be enjoyable.

All of these sarcastic responses are almost as bad the clam stackers ruining this game.

Well...

I'm student teaching now, so that's taking most of my time. I am in a middle school 40 hours a week, and then I have to do standards reflections forms for the college. I am scheduled for tutoring 8 hours a week, and as a telephone interviewer 3 hours Friday night and 6 hours Saturday.

I read a lot.

I have been playing WoW less than I'd like to, mostly because by the time I get home and eat supper, I'm usually ready to fall asleep, despite having always been a night owl up to this point, and obviously, I can't play it at school or at tutoring.

So, if I'm not working, I'm usually reading.

I'm also taking an online writing class, but I'm not getting very far in it, since it requires thinking and reading (well, the YA books I'm reading right now) doesn't. I've written 5 novels and one long novel-length work of Harry Potter fan fiction. Lots and lots of poems. A couple of short stories.

I love to cook, but cook only once a week: Sunday.

I'm fortunate to live with my parents, so I can afford to eat on 17 hours of part-time work per week. And even that feels like too much sometimes (like tonight after being yelled at by an angry parent, and totally ******** up the parent-teacher conference . . . however, it seems to be the concensus of all concerned that my mentor teacher should have been there for support).

I'm 35 years old, and am coming to the conclusion that I will not be able to "retire." I think I'm going to end up switching to part-time and taking up writing as a new profession when I get too old to teach full time.

When I was in France (student teaching for pay!), I had little to no internet connection, so spent my gaming time on Dragon Age: Origins, which I love. I wasn't as exhausted and had a much more flexible schedule, so I played a lot more then. Otherwise, I'm pretty new to computer gaming -- before that, all I had ever played were kids' games and then Baldur's Gate, which I played up until my last computer died and I picked up WoW back in 2006.

Oh, and I used to play a mean cello.

Thanks for being a teacher btw. That is a rough profession. I used to be a preschool teacher working with 2 year olds. Don't let the nasty parents get under your skin, chances are, they've never had it hard a day in their lives. Just keep doing what you are doing, I promise you, you will get through to some of your students. I know, I speak from exp., there were quite a few teachers who had a profound impact on me :)

Ehehe. Yeah wish I was as buff as my toon (still can't get over that term).

I tried my luck in the telephone interviewing industry, but I caved to the pressure of having to persuade people into spending 30 minutes on the phone with me when they clearly wanted me to "**** off and stop calling!" The policy of having to respect their wishes while maintaining a 50% participation rate... ugh.

What's "student teaching"? Is it like an internship thing? How (why?) on earth are you managing all that at once? Must pay some mean cash, but still, 56 hours in a week (eight hours a day, every day) is insane.

Holy loins Batman! You and your wife must have been BUSY!

Maz, student teaching isn't really like an internship, you definitely get paid for it. Well, I suppose it depends on what kind. If you are a grad student, and you're doing student teaching, you get paid for it, plus you get a discount on your tuition or something. You make crap money, but the discount on the tuition makes it worth it supposedly. This is the sort of deal most American grad students try to get, as it makes grad school actually affordable.

Wait, there's more than one way to become a teacher in the States? Silly countries and their educational systems. What's the difference between grad school and... whatever you're doing, Vesaera? I'm blissfully ignorant of how this stuff works in other countries.

Here teachers are split up into primary school and high school. To become a primary school teacher you apply at a "teacher training college" with your high school grades and you then get a bachelor's degree in teaching there. To become a high school teacher, you'll need to get a master's degree from the university in whatever subjects you want to teach (at least two). Everything at a higher level is moving into the professor category, which has little to do with teaching and more to do with knowing a bunch of stuff.

I originally wanted to be a high school teacher, but I detest universities and the so-called teachers there, so I planned to get my bachelor's degree at the college and skip a couple of years at the university. After my first internship, though, I've decided to stop at primary school level. I don't think I'd last two years at a university, with all the boring lectures and stuff, and I found that I really enjoy teaching kids. It can be a pain in the *** at times, but it's also very rewarding.

What Poldaran said.

Also, it depends on the state. In order to be a teacher anywhere in the US, you have to have a teaching license (the other things Poldaran mentioned might ALSO be necessary, but at the very minimum, you need the license), and those are given by each individual state. In Colorado, the state I'm in, we do not have to take a lot of standardized tests, but we do have to put together a portfolio. In other states, there's no portfolio, but instead, they take an education-based standardized test.

You can get your certificate (which is the proof from a college that tells the state that they should give you a license) along with a Masters or a Bachelor's degree: since I already have two Bachelors and one Masters, this did not make sense to me, so I'm just getting the certificate. If I find out later that I need a different Bachelor's or Masters for a job that I really want at a district that requires one, I'll get one then.

Oh, and districts are very local. Our district encompasses maybe 3 different towns and the surrounding rural areas. Some bigger cities have several districts just within that one city.