It is Wednesday night, which is usually good for me as I have had Thursdays off for the last 3 years. Since my 2-year-old started daycare this has meant I had one day a week to clean, go shopping, run errands, schedule appointments and work on my masters dissertation. Well thankfully I got the masters out of the way in September, because as of tomorrow I am officially teaching five days a week.
This may sound like a step up the career ladder, but no, I still have the same number of hours and therefore the same paycheck, so it's simply bad luck for Michele. Boo-hoo.
I realize that I have been lucky up to now, and still am lucky in the sense that 'lucky me, I have a job!' but it is still a perfectly valid loss to mourn. I just hope that next schoolyear either allows a rebirth of the day off, or full time hours for this art teacher, who frankly needs some time to make art.
(photo above shows me hard at work in my school, with the visiting Minister of Education, Mary Hannifan)
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