who's gotta work

[LeeB]

 :-/Just wonderimg how many of you have to work Christmas? I have to leave Tue. to go back to work. I work Offshore in the Gulf of Mexico bringing gas and oil to all of us to keep us warm and motarvated. We will be celebrating Christmas this Sunday. Merry Christmas to all and happy New Year. il be getting back home on the 2nd, so will be working both holidays. :'(

[RavioliKid]

Lee,

Thank you for all you do to keep us warm and productive!

No, I don't have to "work" on the holidays, but I have tons of units, projects, lessons and paperwork and I hope to be able to make a dent in the pile over the holidays.

What a life! I can't wait to get some time off work so that I can get some work done!

 :D

[Jeff]

I have tentative plans to travel on Christmas Day. Someplace interesting, I'll let cha all know where if it works out.

Rav, My cousin's wife is a third grade teacher at St. Joseph in Owosso. She comes up with Gary during the weekends of deer season and stays at the old faarm where my dad was raised and where we hunt.  It's unbeleivable the amount of work that a dedicated teacher has. I have never known Kathy to come up and not spend most of the weekend correcting papers and doing lessons and such. She told me its usually 3 hours a night 5 and 6 nights a week.

It pisses me off when somebody says Teachers got it made, "heck they got all summer off" or "They only work 6 hours a day"  Yea, right. I know how many of you continue your own schooling during the summer and your time off and time spent doing the things that makes a good teacher a better teacher.

You guys deserve off what ever time you can manage. Thanks Rav!

Merry Christmas to you and your Dad.

[Jeff]

Lee, do you work on one of those drilling platforms like we see on T.V ?  

[LeeB]

Yes Jeff, I work on a drilling rig. Not really bad work if you don't count the holidays I have to miss every now and then :-/ I work 2 weeks then have 2 weeks off. Gives me time to pursue my hobbies of milling and woodworking. Actualy gives me a lot of quality time with my family. Instead of working all day, coming home tired, eating dinner then falling into bed, after a day or so of rest ???, i can spend whole days with them. Of coarse 2 weeks is a long time away. Just wish something would break down while I'm at home, instead of at work :D

[Frank_Pender]

Rav,   I have been there for thirty years.  I am now retired from teaching.   The only thing I miss are the Children, but the bureaucratic "stuff".  Like I told you earlier on another post,  Thank you for caring about kids enough to continue teaching.

[DanG]

I'm at work, right now. It's my week for "standby" duty, so there won't be much rest for me. I got home at 9:30 last night, got called back in at 1:00am, got back home at 8:30am, called again at 3pm, and I'm still here. Should have a real nice paycheck coming, though.  I don't have to work Christmas or New Years, unless they can find me. I'm bettin' they can't.;-)

RK, and Frank, my daughter-in-law is a brand new 3rd grade teacher. This is her first year. She seems to be enjoying it. She found her several years in the Insurance business to be totally unrewarding, but is getting some "warm fuzzies" from being with the kids.

[Frank_Pender]

Yes, Dan, the fuzzies are warm and sometimes it has covered two generations of the children.  Some of the first wanted me to stay long enough to have their grandchildren.  That ment in some cases another 8 to ten years in the classroom.   That part was the honor, the downside was: the bureaucratic "stuff", and selfishly, I could not operate My sawmills as much.   In the last three years I have sawen two complete homes and both of them have been for previous students.  That then becomes a warm fuzzie for sure.  Thank your doughter for me, for getting into teaching to care for children.                                                                                             And then as to what this thread was about, working on Holidays.  I do just for the enjoyment of it all and make  sure that whatever is sawen goes into a special kind of project for someone special, usually one of my previous 3,000 students.  Thanks for the memories that this thread has created for me this lovely rainy Oregon afternoon. 8) 8) 8) 8) ;)