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I'm glad you felt needed in your previous job, Bucephalus. I don't like feeling like I'm a tiny interchangeable cog in a big machine. What do you do now?
i do customer service for a mobile phone company currently. i think i stress my self out by trying way too hard with the customer's, so i need to care a little bit less. I used be a supervisor in a pizza place, i did that for 7 years; in that job, everyone was needed (or at least everyone that could half do their job)
what sort of thing do you do?
I'm one of my daughter's teachers at her school. She used to attend a special school for autistic children that was some distance from where we live, but they didn't want her there anymore. We needed to find a new school for her but she didn't fit anywhere we could find. Two behavior specialists from the school district tried to teach her in a private room at a local school, two on one for just two hours a day, but they didn't have much success. They were ready to give up on her.
My husband and I know that our daughter is teachable and actually quite bright, so my husband volunteered for me to come into that classroom and teach her myself while they took notes. They agreed to try this for a week. I told him that he needed to come in and help me, since we were replacing two teachers and he and I could take turns teaching her to keep her interested. Also, he's a wonderful teacher but he already has more than a full time job.
He came with me that week and together we taught her, then they could see how eager she actually is to learn if she is taught in a way that's right for her. After that week, they agreed to teach her the same way we had been doing it, at least as much as they could since my husband is a hard act to follow, and I agreed to keep coming to school with her as long as she needs me to.
I did this as a volunteer for a few months but then the district decided that they needed to hire me. They also hired new teachers to replace the two behavior specialists. We worked together to gradually increase the time and now she's learning for nearly a full day instead of just two hours a day. The other teachers have skills that I lack and vice-versa so together we make a very effective team.