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Re: Blog Thread IIIb : Look Who's Blogging Now
Carl-E:
Overachieving parents, that's what.
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So I was sitting around after church today talking with a few of the remaining members about this and that, and Debbie B, who'ss a good friend, says "I know, I'll ask Carl, maybe he can".
She got sidetracked, and a little later I asked her what she was going to ask me.
"Would you like a part time job?"
0_o
Uh.... YES!!!
Debbie owns the Beer Barn here in town, and since her husband Lennie passed away two years ago, it's been just her and two of her sons (and a few delivery drivers for the commercial customers). They got stretched pretty thin over the holidays, and if one of them gets sick or needs a day for something, they wind up shorthanded. I'll be taking two days a week outside my teaching schedule, and other days/evenings as needed, especially around holidays (they were stretched pretty thin these last two weeks).
Her only question for me was, "Do you know how to run a cash register?"
:-D
Since '76. And modern ones, too. I can even count change, which is a dying art...
So that makes it three part time jobs, now. And I've made a tearoff flyer for tutoring at the local Penn State Campus (like Dillinger said, "because that's where the money is")
It might actually be a good year! Now if only I can get some health insurance somewhere...
Redball:
Good work! Oughta be fun if you don't deal with drunks.
Pilchard123:
That's what the broadsword is for.
Bluesummers:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 06 Jan 2013, 12:10 ---It's a bit like when I took a year off due to illness. I wasn't allowed to attend lectures in that year, because that would mean I got to cover the material twice - I could take the year out to recover, so that I was in the same healthy state as the other students, but not repeat the instruction.
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Wow...UK must have very different rules governing education then. My wife took a medical leave two different semesters, and ended up taking the same class three times...no rule against that here. Of course, she wasn't happy about it...it was a Chem class taught by a professor so inane that when I sat in on the class with her, I was ready to strangle him for not following through on his examples and explaining why things did what they did...and I wasn't even a student at that university.
But I digress. I can understand the grant restrictions, that makes sense.
I can only hope the mother will understand the limitations, given that you have a life outside of tutoring. If not, that's her loss, not yours (aside from 15 pounds per week). Don't sweat it.
Patrick:
--- Quote from: Pilchard123 on 07 Jan 2013, 00:06 ---That's what the broadsword is for.
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I use mine to open lots and lots of boxes and sometimes chest cavities
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