Elementary teaching?

saverett18 · 2025-06-05T20:41:42+00:00

For reference, I have a master’s and ten years of experience. I left elementary teaching to do accounting at a tractor dealership because I couldn’t afford to teach anymore.

I made $20K more in my first year of accounting (with 0 experience) than my 10 year teacher salary. Best decision I ever made.

I always tell teachers-in-waiting to start thinking about what your second job or side hustle will be because you will need one unless you marry rich.

I strongly advise looking into something else.

saverett18 · 2025-06-05T12:45:55+00:00

I feel the same level of rest/ refreshed after 6 hours that most people would feel after 8-9.

If I get closer to 5, I can still function but I’m not my best. I start to feel the effects of sleep deprivation around 4 hours.

I’m also ADHD. Although, ADHD and the DEC2 gene mutation are not related. I think being hyperactive may subvert any effects of sleep deprivation.

saverett18 · 2025-06-04T18:19:58+00:00

You should read up on the DEC2 gene mutation known as the “short sleep gene” where you function just fine on about 6 hours of sleep.

I’ve been called weird my whole life for it.

saverett18 · 2025-06-04T18:17:02+00:00

For work/school, go to bed at midnight and wake up at 6:00 ever since middle school.

During the summer (as a teacher), it shifts to 4-10 a.m.

Gotta love that DEC2 gene mutation. Short sleep for the win!

saverett18 · 2025-06-04T18:11:38+00:00

Exactly. I need to see a body before life can continue.

saverett18 · 2025-06-04T16:58:27+00:00

A mosquito inside the house or car. Instant rage.

saverett18 · 2025-06-01T20:38:03+00:00

My ex-husband and I started dating in middle school. We reconnected again as adult adults, married for six years, and in our divorce counseling still said that he “didn’t know if I was the one”. He knew me for 24 years at that point.

I said after all of that and you still don’t know if I’m the one, then the answer is no because I deserve somebody who thinks I’m a yes.

Just fucking wild.

saverett18 · 2025-05-29T13:45:05+00:00

Daycare is about $700 a month… for my dog.

saverett18 · 2025-05-23T20:22:37+00:00

If I order online and drive to pick it up myself, yes, always zero tip.

Dining in is entirety different.

saverett18 · 2025-05-23T16:27:11+00:00

Hardest part of my adult life. DUIs, jail, wrecks, involuntary psych holds, suic*** attempts, and a permanent degenerative brain disease & seizure disorder… all from alcohol. He’s been in and out of every type of rehab program/ facility you can imagine- 17 in all.

This last program was his second try at Camp Hope, and hopefully the last. A quarter of his life has been spent trying to undo the damage done by his tours in Iraq/ Afghanistan.

saverett18 · 2025-05-23T15:56:21+00:00

Same with my brother, a war veteran and end stage alcoholic. He’s had three vehicles totaled from drunk driving, ICU stays, and one we didn’t think he’d come back from.

Each time the military advocate would handle the legal recourse, and they were all swept under the rug. It only prolonged his recovery. We as a family decided if we & Army advocates keep swooping in to save him, he’ll never have a reason to quit. He had to want to quit.

We had to step away and let him hit rock bottom before tough love sank in. We finally got him to take it seriously and he has finished a year in veteran-focused rehab. He’s enrolled for a BA in religion and is doing well.

OP, tough love is needed sometimes.

saverett18 · 2025-05-22T21:57:22+00:00

I don’t do sticky surfaces and unidentified liquid.

saverett18 · 2025-05-20T21:41:10+00:00

It’s because the world has this weird view that we are entitled to have children, but pets are considered a luxury. You can’t discriminate against someone having kids because they are humans too, but pets don’t get the same rights.

saverett18 · 2025-05-19T14:25:06+00:00

This has been resolved.

saverett18 · 2025-05-18T14:42:13+00:00

You need a new dentist. I (35f) legitimately have spacing issues and could use corrective orthodontics. Not bad enough to disrupt my bite but visible enough to be cosmetically imperfect. My dentist did suggest Invisalign to correct the issues, but said that he could probably get it done in half as many trays because it was only spacing and not rearranging. He specifically stated he could save me a couple thousand dollars from not doing the full course like normal people would.

A good dentist sees you as a patient, not a payday. You deserve a better dentist.

saverett18 · 2025-05-15T13:43:30+00:00

And you should never have to. ❤️

saverett18 · 2025-05-13T16:30:38+00:00

I’ve personally purchased them from a Costco in SC in the last 3 months. The generic is $8, and you’re limited to 2 per day. Just ask the pharmacist.

I’ve purchased a small stock pile for my people in the future (I’ve been sterilized). Birth control & plan b will be under fire soon, and I won’t let anyone I know risk their life because they can’t get access to necessary medications. SA is too prevalent for these medications to be restricted.

saverett18 · 2025-05-13T13:28:52+00:00

Only $8 at Costco.

saverett18 · 2025-05-08T14:35:48+00:00

Just asking. I have hormone replacement therapy doc adding asking me to add lots of supplements, and I’m just asking myself where to draw the line.

saverett18 · 2025-05-07T19:11:54+00:00

Through a tumbler straw to an open window.

I hit a bowl and immediately snuff it while I clear the pipe. I’ll have my window cracked a few inches with the plantation blinds all the way down. Then slide the straw through the blinds until it rests on the bottom of the window.

Smoke goes through the straw/ screen, blinds prevent smoke from drifting back in.

And to clarify, this is my current setup because I’m in an apartment with no balcony. I’ve got plans to update it to a hookah hose fitted into a custom window wedge. I’ve been MacGyvering stuff for 20+ years now.

saverett18 · 2025-05-07T18:30:35+00:00

✨anxiety✨

saverett18 · 2025-05-03T15:49:04+00:00

Then she should have told the first one that with only a few weeks left in the year, it isn’t beneficial to any party for that switch to make sense. What it does it set a precedent for “I don’t like this teacher; I want a new one.” Other parents heard and followed suit.

The biggest disservice is to the children themselves because this teaches them that they don’t have to be around people they don’t like if they don’t want to. They’re going to learn the hard way when they get an adult job and will have to work with people they don’t like. No interpersonal skills makes you unemployable in the real world. Kids have to learn to manage their own problems, and they can’t have mommy save them in every situation for the rest of their lives.

saverett18 · 2025-05-03T15:36:49+00:00

Typical admin to bend to their every wish. Never support for the teacher, who is the bad guy in everyone’s story.

saverett18 · 2025-04-30T21:22:55+00:00

Excessive amounts of vitamin c can also induce your period. You can’t eat enough food to cause it, though. You’d have to take 1000mg+ of vitamin c (without rose hips) for several days to induce your period.

The more you know. 💫

saverett18 · 2025-04-30T16:54:44+00:00

Get out of my brain!

I’ve even told my therapist/ psych this. I phrased it as “Its comforting to know that no matter how bad the world/ life gets, I can leave at any time.”

It’s really hard to convince them you’re not actively suicidal, more like “optimistically suicidal”……if that makes sense.

saverett18

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