Wednesday, August 8, 2018

August 2018 - Reflecting Re Vacation Time Off

Summer vacations surely go by so quickly.    There is hardly time for teachers and those off during the summer school vacation, to take a deep breath and relax before they are headed back to the school regimen again for another school year. Those jobs offering only a two week vacation are slave drivers in my opinion.  Breaks for vacations and commercials are ridiculously to short or too interruptive.

In my opinion, school is  a strict and unforgiving regimen of hurried classes and fun.    The school  routine for many classes is based on 15-30 minute increments of rushed time - most of which is not classroom instruction.  Glorified babysitting is kind of how I feel.  Oh well, it gives lots of jobs to lots of teachers. So it is ok, so to speak, until something better comes along.  I worked in the school system, not in an administrative position, for twenty years. It was most rewarding, working with the children, however, rushing things was not very relaxing as we tried to cram as much as we could into a four or eight hour day.  Days off were few and far between even to take my own children to appointments.

Jobs of all kinds today are lower management-driven vehicles to get the most work out of employees per day regardless of the job itself.  There is no time for inefficiency in time management!  Like the commercials on television.  You have thirty minutes of commercials in an hour of show.  Most are repeat commercials - therefore, one is repeatedly listening to the same commercials.  These commercials are more interesting than the actual show you are watching sometimes.  And the commercial breaks disrupt those shows, that we like, even more often than should be allowed.



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