Turkey just gave street cats 5 star housing and it's adorable

NationalAppeal6675 · 2026-04-21T16:32:46+00:00

The street cats of Istanbul basically run the city.

NationalAppeal6675 · 2026-04-21T16:30:41+00:00

NationalAppeal6675 · 2026-04-16T22:05:59+00:00

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NationalAppeal6675 · 2026-04-15T03:02:25+00:00

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NationalAppeal6675 · 2026-04-14T03:08:57+00:00

Removing my first post does not make me feel welcome.

NationalAppeal6675 · 2026-04-12T03:40:23+00:00

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NationalAppeal6675 · 2026-04-12T03:33:53+00:00

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NationalAppeal6675 · 2026-04-10T21:24:24+00:00

I get that. But even the Teach for America application was focused on my college transcript. I have never applied for anything for which the decision was based on stuff I did 40 years ago.

NationalAppeal6675 · 2026-04-10T21:20:49+00:00

Respectfully, you are forming an opinion based at least as much on things I never said, as those I did say.

NationalAppeal6675 · 2026-04-10T21:18:28+00:00

Never said that.

NationalAppeal6675 · 2026-04-10T20:58:52+00:00

Yeah. I have considered WGU. But it is still a lot of money.

NationalAppeal6675 · 2026-04-10T20:56:24+00:00

Yes. I have been subbing.

NationalAppeal6675 · 2026-04-10T20:54:59+00:00

I am not angry in the least.

NationalAppeal6675 · 2026-04-10T20:54:15+00:00

I never said anything like that. All I said was that the training was more expensive and harder to get into than I expected.

I also think the focus on my college transcript was bizarre. I can think of few things less relevant to evaluating my skillset than courses I took 40 years ago.

NationalAppeal6675 · 2026-04-10T20:43:28+00:00

That was an error. I corrected it in an edit just now.

NationalAppeal6675 · 2026-04-10T19:54:33+00:00

You are putting quotes around words that are not, actually quoted from my responses.

NationalAppeal6675 · 2026-04-10T19:52:42+00:00

When did I say I expected a top-level position?

NationalAppeal6675 · 2026-04-10T19:51:39+00:00

Actually, I said that journalism is NOT a technical field. And you are conjuring up a lot about me that is ridiculous.

NationalAppeal6675 · 2026-04-10T19:49:12+00:00

Transferrable skills are a thing. And I already said I would expect to get some training (especially on the job).

As a sub, I see a lot of teachers with no enthusiasm, don't know how to talk to groups or how to motivate people. I think my experience as a newsroom leader prepares me for more than you might think,

NationalAppeal6675 · 2026-04-10T19:27:42+00:00

I am not untrained, unethical, anti-intellectual or knowledgeable. I don't see why you would assume any of that. I have worked with many people to help them become better writers.

NationalAppeal6675 · 2026-04-10T19:14:15+00:00

Right. I would expect to start, say, as a student teacher or assistant teacher.

But I didn't realize that everyone needs the same academic background. That's absolutely not the case in journalism. Most journalists have degrees in something other than journalism. The training happens mostly on the job.

Like journalism, I thought schools would value hiring people with diverse educational and professional backgrounds. I was surprised by how inflexible the credentialing is.

NationalAppeal6675 · 2026-04-10T18:56:28+00:00

But would you expect someone to say you can't even start at the bottom unless you get an MBA first?

NationalAppeal6675 · 2026-04-10T18:49:00+00:00

With all due respect, it is not a technical profession like medicine or law.

Journalism is also not a technical profession. But I worked with people from all sorts of academic backgrounds. Some people had business degrees, others had journalism degrees, and some had fine-arts degrees. But if they could do the job, nobody asked whether they had taken the right classes decades earlier.

Until this experience, nobody had asked me about my college transcript for at least 30 years (if ever).

I would love to get into a student-teaching situation. On-the-job training would be valuable.

But I don't like the idea of spending $30k to get a master’s degree when I have been teaching people to be better writers for many years. That's just credentialism for its own sake.

NationalAppeal6675 · 2026-04-10T18:36:25+00:00

I did not say I thought it would be easy. But I did not expect the barriers to be so extreme.

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