What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[Jmustang1968]

Well, government does pay teacher salaries, so it isn't all that market driven. However, I do hear time and again that being a teacher is a fall-back plan for those who may not get a career they want. Poli-sci, history, sciences etc... How many times have you heard, well, I want to do X, but if that doesn't work out, I can be a teacher.

There are many teachers who are passionate about teaching and it is a calling for them. But there are also many who are just doing it because it is a job that pays. This can be compounded with issues with parents, administration, politics and such. There are so many factors that go into this discussion.

[Luke]

Smile: Enjoying a cigar while also enjoying a nice rain:

[TSTR]

Went to the beach for a week.
Ate and drank a lot.
Won our annual beach bocce ball tournament for the 3rd time in ten years.
Home again, home again, jiggity jig.

[JsGameRoom]

Smile: Enjoying a cigar while also enjoying a nice rain:

How bad was it by you? All morning it was horrible here

[Forlorn Drifter]

Well, lost someone who was supposed to be a "friend' but was always a dick to me. I hung out with him for about the last 3 years only because some other friends hung with him, and I didn't have a choice. But after the other night, I'm not hanging with him ever again. I'm tired of his shit, and I'm just done with messing with it.

[jp1]

Well, lost someone who was supposed to be a "friend' but was always a dick to me. I hung out with him for about the last 3 years only because some other friends hung with him, and I didn't have a choice. But after the other night, I'm not hanging with him ever again. I'm tired of his shit, and I'm just done with messing with it.

Doesn't sound like much of a loss.

[Forlorn Drifter]

It's not, and its a longtime coming, but the arguments that night nearly got physical.

[Luke]

Smile: Enjoying a cigar while also enjoying a nice rain:

How bad was it by you? All morning it was horrible here

It's been raining for nearly a week straight.

Smile:

[Xeogred]

[flex wood]

So I've been in a shitty mood for the last couple of months since I found out my ex got pregnant shortly after we broke up. I don't know why, I should feel relieved that I'm not forced to be tied to her and lies and manipulation for the duration of the life of another human being.

All I can think about is what if I had gotten her pregnant? She always said she never wanted to have kids and yet had a kid less than a year after we broke up.

So yea I think I'm going to get a vasectomy in the next couple of weeks. I mean hell I've never even wanted to entertain the thought of having kids. When my dad got his done when I was maybe 7 or 8 I thought it was a great idea. And hey if I do end up changing my mind down the line a reversal is only about $3000 out of pocket and if I can't afford that I don't think should be trying to have a kid in the first place!

Spoiler contains home surgery joke

I could do it myself with but I'm short the tools I need to do it: vice, power drill, and soldering iron.