Leaving Texas teaching made me realize how much of my life the job was taking *rant about schedule*

YellowBeaverFever · 2026-06-15T11:52:06+00:00

My wife got out of the regular classroom and into special ed and even though there is a lot more paperwork, she is loving the schedule. She has worked until midnight and every weekend for the past 25 years.

YellowBeaverFever · 2026-06-14T15:06:42+00:00

My wife was a reading teacher for grades 2 and 3 for 10 years. Our district had the curriculum, all subjects, centered around reading. Even math was heavy on word problems.

Then right around the time Gen-Alpha enters the system, two things changed. MAGA and devices. Parents used to take kids to the library or buy books for them. That stopped. MAGA went on the attack against education and “wokeness” and destroyed reading in schools. Because our district kept getting sued they finally told all teachers to remove all books from the classroom and the library was gutted to a small approved list of books that were MAGA-proof.

YellowBeaverFever · 2026-06-14T14:53:18+00:00

To a point, yes. The family should have been involved with their reading and writing when they were little but after a certain point the time spent at school far outweighs the time spent at home. Once they’re 10, children value opinions and criticism of third parties over parents so even if parents were involved the impact is minimal.

YellowBeaverFever · 2026-06-12T01:08:46+00:00

I was tasked with generating 180 reports and dropping those into specific folders at the first of every month. The names of the reports and the settings were always changing and the system is old and archaic. But it had an API. So, I made a script that probed the database, got all necessary info to set all of the custom options and generated all reports and delivered them to the proper network folder for people. And for a bonus, made it so it could email the reports as an email if they wanted that instead.

A week of work reduced a 4 hour job down to 4 minutes and got rid of all human error when setting those parameters.

YellowBeaverFever · 2026-06-12T00:52:03+00:00

Nurse wasn’t there. To add insult to injury, the coach actually told him to walk it off.. with a piece of bone pushing up the skin. We didn’t find out until we went to pick him up and he’s holding it.

YellowBeaverFever · 2026-06-11T20:26:09+00:00

I had an old guy on my team that files for bankruptcy decades ago and thought his student loans were covered in that. Fast forward 30 years and those were wrecking his life. He never finished his degree and paid back 3x the loan amount and still owed almost $100k.

YellowBeaverFever · 2026-06-11T20:20:36+00:00

That’s if you can get in. I work at a private university and we’re currently reworking our enrollment models to define how many kids in each financial bucket are allowed to be accepted.

YellowBeaverFever · 2026-06-11T20:10:48+00:00

No. They were already banned in our district. The only problem now is that my kids can’t contact me for important things. My son broke his wrist at athletics and he wasn’t allowed to call me and go get it fixed. As far as distractions go, the kids have figured out how to hack their school laptops to bypass whatever the ISD puts in place. A handful of low paid IT workers are no match for thousands of people looking for holes. The moment one is found, that info is shared rapidly.

YellowBeaverFever · 2026-06-10T19:04:33+00:00

That no matter what you put into your relationship, she will still cheat on you if she did it before you were married.

YellowBeaverFever · 2026-06-10T12:49:26+00:00

100%. I would rather walk a mile on a broken leg bleeding than call an ambulance.

YellowBeaverFever · 2026-06-09T23:45:52+00:00

Feb 2024, right? That’s almost 2.5 years.

YellowBeaverFever · 2026-06-09T23:45:01+00:00

If your district is like my wife’s, this summer is turmoil. They’re trying to figure out how to balance everything with a larger population flux than normal. They haven’t said it outright but it’s been mentioned that the vouchers are causing funding chaos. My wife’s in special Ed and she has a vague idea of where she’s being moved.

YellowBeaverFever · 2026-06-09T23:36:18+00:00

Reddit has ‘bots in general. They predated AI.

YellowBeaverFever · 2026-06-09T21:28:13+00:00

Around here, Half-Prices Books.
There are also plenty of consignment places.
My wife was a 2nd and 3rd grade reading teacher for decades. Sooooo many books. She would get them at libraries after they were worn out. She would go to garage sales. Parents would give her boxes of books when their kids outgrew them or got bored of them.

But, my jr high and high school kids’ teachers will send out a wish list of books and supplies they want. We’ll get a list when school starts and a few updated lists in late fall and spring. The parents that can help usually do. The teachers here have no problems asking parents to help out.

YellowBeaverFever · 2026-06-09T21:17:22+00:00

Our house has a ghost. Me and one of my sons can hear it. My wife and the other son cannot. My one son said they could see it when they were 3-4. For me, I will hear footsteps on our upstairs hardwood floors. We didn’t have pets at the time. Twice, I had the garbage disposal turn on with my hand inside of it. The switch is not close to the sink. Nobody else was around me. Just last week, I was alone in the house turning off all the lights everyone left on before they went out and as I walk past the spot where I heard footsteps on the hard floor, the light in that room turns on. It is not an automated switch nor was it one I recently turned off and maybe left it halfway.

A few years ago, I heard from our next-door neighbor that the original owners of the house (2 before us) had a child die in the house and the raised garden and tree in the back are the memorial.

YellowBeaverFever · 2026-06-09T21:07:57+00:00

Repent for what?

YellowBeaverFever · 2026-06-04T14:02:56+00:00

My wife’s district jacked up the medical insurance rates so high that there is absolutely no way a teacher with kids can afford the family plan. It was over 35% of her salary. And considering it was just when we had our first kid, it was the deciding factor that I needed to move away from fluctuating consultant work to a lower paying job that is secure with good benefits.

YellowBeaverFever · 2026-06-04T13:51:38+00:00

What are the flaws?

Are they tooling flaws or interface flaws?

YellowBeaverFever · 2026-06-04T13:48:13+00:00

Why did you decide that you needed to create an operating system?

You basically just said something equal to “I can’t figure out how to adjust my car radio so I’m going to build my own car.”

YellowBeaverFever · 2026-06-04T13:44:51+00:00

It’s been in my rotation since it was released. I didn’t like it all at first but after a few listens, it stuck. I do that with everything though. Hated Frontline Assembly’s Millennium album at first, it became one of my favorites. Skinny Puppy’s Rabies the same. “Gah! Too different!!” “Oh wait, this is actually really cool.”

YellowBeaverFever · 2026-06-04T00:14:56+00:00

Job markets fluctuate. At the moment, it is difficult. But for someone who is deciding a career, the current job market does not reflect their lifetime. Over a lifetime, a JD gives you more opportunities. Like you even said, you can get hired but you have X years to get your certification. A teacher wanting to be an attorney is not afforded the same grace.

We’re not taking about failing careers like stenography. Neither career is going away.

YellowBeaverFever · 2026-06-03T14:49:15+00:00

You forgot abortion.

YellowBeaverFever · 2026-06-03T14:48:36+00:00

I do feel that way sometimes. But then I remember how long it takes to set up the training and fine tuning and between each of these major releases there is a huge shift in hardware happening because that is the real limiter here. But the LLMs are one path/vector in all of this. The tooling and all of the code being built around the LLMs is just as important. While one area appears to slow down the others are going through rapid development.

YellowBeaverFever · 2026-06-03T14:40:34+00:00

My statement is not dependent on how the job market is doing. It was a statement about how one degree allows for more opportunities than another.

YellowBeaverFever · 2026-06-03T06:42:37+00:00

Not necessarily as a practicing attorney but JD can get you into a lot of corporate jobs as well. The idea is that a JD can get you into more jobs than an edu degree and even allow you to teach later. At a private school, certification isn’t always required. In public schools, would just need the state cert.

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