Jeremy Bender
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Bill collector. They collect all day on the desk.
After 22 year as an operations manager in telecom, I left and now have two jobs. I'm a Realtor and I teach guitar lessons a couple of days a week.
I find it curious that on a drumming forum, 99% of respondents don't get their money from drumming.
I don't think I'd like to be drumming full time. Too much of a good thing isn't a good thing anymore for me.
I'm a judge and I work in criminal court but playing my drums is so much more fun.
Definitevely quieter, close to no ordinary street crime, actuallyare things "quieter" now with the isolation and all? Crime is (interestingly) down here (in Ohio) locally...also in some other parts of the country
I find it curious that on a drumming forum, 99% of respondents don't get their money from drumming.
I don't think I'd like to be drumming full time. Too much of a good thing isn't a good thing anymore for me.
I am a middle school art teacher in rural Kentucky, teaching grades 5-8. Yes, middle schoolers are insane, but I'm never bored.
That is exactly what my wife teaches, but in a poor urban neighborhood in NJ. It’s unfortunate, but due to the unruliness of the students the last 3 years, the lack of support and cluelessness of the administration, parent involvement being practically nonexistent, and the lack of respect for the related arts classes by some other teachers even, she’s had enough. To top it, her commute is a hour long each day.
Being art has limited positions, there are next to no other positions available anywhere too.
After 10 years, it’s unfortunate because she still loves how she has a positive effect on the kids. Her highlights a lot of the times is some of these kids simply asking for hugs.
I own a swim school and because I am my own boss, I have more control than she does. I will say that the worst thing about teaching is the parents. I can handle the misbehaving kids. It’s these parents that need to just go away.
These say it all in what’s changed the last 25 years.
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I have a relative who taught 4th grade in a private school for 32 years. One of her students complained to his parents (because he wanted to be in the other class with his twin brother) and the parents complained to the principle. She was fired the next day, 2 years from retirement. No severance, no notice, nothing. Two weeks after she was fired, the family/student moved out of state. Lawyer up, bitches!I will say that the worst thing about teaching is the parents. I can handle the misbehaving kids. It’s these parents that need to just go away.