DragonChaser said:

You're right, I won't lie, I've been lucky and privileged.  I pretty much grew up without my dad as he left for work before I got up before school and went to sleep before he got home; he was only around when I was to be punished, pretty much.

My mother was stay at home for a while, then started a number of her own businesses (which my father funded to keep her happy).

I love my dad for sure, but he's a workaholic.  Wish he would have been around more.  But he grew up in the "if you provide and don't beat the fuck out of your family, you're automatically a good father/husband" generation.

So yeah... I had a lot of opportunities and wanted for little growing up.  I didn't get the '72 Corvette for my 18th birthday like I wanted, but cry me a fucking river (he had to pick me up from the cops a few days before my birthday).  I didn't realize how privileged me and all my friends were until I got out of college and found out what starting salaries were like in most fields.

My dad is in energy production and currently makes around a quarter million a year; I guess he's got around 2 mil in investments and another 400K or so in Krugerrand (sounds fucking weird, but he has them), and more in property he owns.  It'll make for a nice inheritance, but I suppose until then I have to do something instead of living off his largesse, right?  I mean, unlike some of my high school friends, I wasn't a trust fundie kid.

I think the thing I'm most afraid of is trying and failing, or actively being dominated by a room full of kids.  When I worked for the school system before, there was always a teacher around to keep them under control.  I flip a shit too easily, and cuss too easily, but I think I could manage myself if I had to.

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physicist said:

I say give it a shot man.  You really have nothing to loose.  Getting canned because of the SOL scores is no worse than blowing of the interview and such.  I have to teach a class this Fall because I need the money, but I really don't want to.  It can be very satisfying when you see the light bulb flash on.  That's my two cents, but do what you want.

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aiyobro said:

Just try to do notes and lecture, maybe tell some bullshit stories once in awhile, make them do hands on work in note books so they can go at their own speed and learn something while in school.

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TimmehSydney said:

Take the job, save and then invest.
Playing with stocks or any kind of investment is fun (seriously, it's addicting and interesting if you treat it like a video game and just keep racking up points you can get amazing highs but also decrepit lows)

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DragonChaser said:

TimmehSydney said:

Take the job, save and then invest.
Playing with stocks or any kind of investment is fun (seriously, it's addicting and interesting if you treat it like a video game and just keep racking up points you can get amazing highs but also decrepit lows)

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I don't know about that... I let my father handle my investments.  I'm a bad gambler dude, I remember the first time he took me to a casino.  I kept having to bum more money off him because I couldn't leave the blackjack table.  I've never messed with stocks because of that specific reason.  I don't even know what he has my money invested in.  I thought about doing a sneak and peek on his and my investments recently to figure out just how much is there and what it's invested in (I can get into the locked cabinet where he keeps all the paperwork) but I've been too lazy to do so.

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Well in that case you should definitely get to know the students on a personal level on the first day, a great way to do this would be to use ice.

You know what to do 

2Experimental said:

Make something out of your life.

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TimmehSydney said:

Well in that case you should definitely get to know the students on a personal level on the first day, a great way to do this would be to use ice.

You know what to do 

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DragonChaser said:

2Experimental said:

Make something out of your life.

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I am quite the beer connoisseur, thank you.

In fact, I taught my dad how to brew beer, since his dream is to open a restaurant/bar after he retires and builds the houses he wants to get built.  I built him a microbrewery in his basement for a father's day gift a few years back (I'd been brewing wine since I was 14 or 15, adapting it to beer wasn't hard... I did use his money to build it though).

I also have a successful black carpenter ant colony.  I'm their deity.  I think that's an accomplishment.

I'm also married to a wonderful woman... her family thinks I'm a bum, and I have to agree, but she loves me.  Before she became a bank manager I taught her how to grow fungus. 

There's more, but I think I have a fair bit accomplished...  In all seriousness, I'm really afraid of failure.  Getting fired doesn't scare me so much, it's if the kids don't do well, that would crush me.  Whenever I had a student that I was tutoring who would improve, then suddenly start doing poorly because they stopped studying, I would obsess over it and blame myself.  I'd be crushed if that happened to an entire class.  Whenever I had a student that I was tutoring who would improve, then suddenly start doing poorly because they stopped studying, I would obsess over it and blame myself.  I'd be crushed if that happened to an entire class.

I quit my cushy corporate job last summer, even though my manager and the building manager were grooming me for a management position and a switch to a more interesting department.  I had just developed a paperless credit system for the top department (I worked at the national shared accounting center for a huge north American company) but left because I thought my supervisor was a cunt and she denied two days of a five day request for vacation so I could go to NC with my family.  The only things I've done since then are landscaping, built a few custom designed Koi ponds with custom built filters (all my own designs) and some math tutoring.

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Good story.
BUt..

DragonChaser said:

Alright, alright... now that my confidence is getting up a little by talking about it, I'm going to wait until it's morning time here (I mean proper morning, not this pre-dawn bullshit) and call the lady back and agree for an interview time.

Thanks, you guys did help... and I think talking about my fear of failure helped too.

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You'l never know if you don't try