Signing up for scramble.io is for walke- SUCKERS!!!
Or, work at a store with a paint mixer, like Home Depot.
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Second consecutive day of wall to wall meetings and with my vacation on the horizon I am so unmotivated. Having to dig DEEP for any F’s to give.
Tomorrow and Friday will be a little better in the meetings department.
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Well, you think that now…
I find it always ends up as chaos right before PTO no matter how hopeful things look a few days out. Just block it all off now and hope for the best. Good luck!
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I am waiting on a package that was sent signature required. It said “delivery before 9pm”, but estimated 11:30a-3:30p. I’m stuck here all day and I had stuff to do.
Wine?
Good guess, but not this time. New tablet.
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My wine from Justin requires a signature. I pick up the others.
Just past 2:30 here. Still 2 1/2 hours for work. (No early dismissals in summer here.)
Somewhat of a vent. If I vent like this at home my spouse will just say I told you so.
When I take students fishing I’m aware that everything including fishing rods becomes consumables. Buying new equipment is just part of it.So is untangling and getting everything in order every time. My ‘everything in order’ always comes back after a trip with some work needed.
But last weekend I loaned some students a half dozen rods and a bunch of tackle. And it came back…a catastrophe. Broken rods, the tackle so tangled that it’s almost unfixable. Reels are a complete mess of tangled lines. I’ve spent 2 hours on this stuff already and I’m not done.
I dunno, this time was a bit overboard, feels a bit disrespectful.
Yup. Things happen, but its common sense that if you borrow something, you do everything you can to return it in the same condition that it was given to you.
You have more patience than I have. I would not loan this stuff out again.
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If I don’t, then they don’t go fishing which defeats much of the purpose of what I’m doing. And it’s working with, yeah I know adults, but really, kids. A lot of them really are not independent yet. It’s just part of it, it’s just this time was about the second worst time I’ve seen.
Plus, you know at my age something like fishing equipment tends to be well cared for and everything in its place. I put up with the chaos on the equipment generally because it’s the nature of it. But I think next time I’ll put some guidelines in place. I dont want them panicking if something gets broken or whatever, but maybe just an overall tendency towards a bit of care would go a long way lol.
The only time I saw worse was when I took 18 students back country camping. We hit the campsite and everyone dropped everything, rummaged through the tackle and ran off fishing leaving me to set up camp lol. when they came back, everything just got dropped. my tackle box looked like a grenade had exploded, tackle was distributed in a 20 foot radius.
oh well, I’ll live. just a vent.
Almost as bad as the time I had three students lines caught in the same tree at the same time. yes, we were fishing in a boat.
Then it is your job to parent them.
“This is not acceptable. Here is how you fix these knots. And that rod cost $xxx CD. Pay me when you can, but no lending until I get paid back. It is called ‘being a responsible adult’ and lessons start now.'”
Oh, and I told you so. So does everybody.
Did you make them scale, gut, and filet the tree??? That would have been appropriate.
And that’s why I get invited to student parties and you don’t :).
I actually do get invited to social events and get togethers, every other year or so. But I’ve got a rule, if I invite students to do stuff socially, that’s fine. If students invite me, I don’t go. it’s the easiest way to not be weird. I just thank them but I’m busy.
from the ‘see, this is what I’m talking about’ lol.
I’m taking three students fishing tomorrow at 6am. Three claim online they’re coming. 2 confirm by text. one ghosts me, so two days later I open it up to another third person.
a day later one of the three can’t make it. so I get another replacement .
now it’s 7pm the night before and I get a text calling in sick.
I swear getting commitments is way more work than you’d think.
One of the best things you can do for an inconsiderate or oblivious 18-22+ year old is show them what being held accountable looks like. I don’t know how a person could get to that age and have zero regard for others’ property, but the real world will not be so kind to them.
I would hope someone would sit my kids down if they pulled something like this (I really hope I raise them to be better than that) and say, “this isn’t ok, you need to do better, I’m telling you this because I care about you. The next person you do this to might not.”
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I get it, but in my experience, I disagree a bit.
with the hundreds of kids I’ve taken fishing and camping, have absolutely had some man children. my attitude, they’ll learn through osmosis without any conflict. And that’s almost 100% been my experience. I’ve seen kids be oblivious initially, but eventually change and become self aware. and I think it’s because they just haven’t been exposed. after theyre exposed, they figure it out.
Plus, at least for what I doing,.it’s about fun and the experience not me being a parent or teaching them stuff. So I just let it slide except when I come here and complain.
Similar example, I took a kid on a four day camping trip that was a mess of anxiety. a real mess, like it was gonna be a problem. We got through it though, and now he has zero anxiety around this stuff. he comes camping and fishing with me as often as he can now, no anxiety. he’s connected with a buddy of mine over his motorcycle and often goes out to my buddy’s shop to work on his bike - another huge life step that wouldn’t have happened without that first trip. so, I complain here, but yeah, I just let them be kids and figure it out through example, and they mostly do.
The funny thing? some of these kids are exactly the opposite. Kind, aware, full of empathy, helpful. Like I can barely cook meals and do the dishes without them insisting they help. I think there’s just a big growth spurt 19-25 that some do at 19,.some do at 25.
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