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Every whiny email, every entitled parent complaint, every request to switch teacher bc the one they have doesn’t fit their “learning style”, every request to drop the AP class they begged for, it all makes me wonder if I hate this job. Or do I hate students now? I used to not. I used to love working with young people. Do I just hate their parents? They’ve indulged their child’s every whim and never told them no once a day in their lives. They’ve created these monsters.

Do I hate being a high school counselor or do I just hate this time of year?

Anyone relate to feeling this way as school starts back up?

Can’t afford a beach trip this summer. Where in Dallas can I be transported to beachy vibes with an amazing crab cake??

I got tickets to see Jack do standup in Houston. I live in Dallas and drove 3.5 hours to see him. Turns out he cancelled the show? So I got to the venue and no Bensinger. The club worker said it was cancelled a month ago and I should have gotten a refund from Eventbrite. Turned out I got an Eventbrite email this Wednesday, show was tonight (Saturday). So I missed the refund email bc it went to my junk folder for some reason, but It would have been too late to cancel the hotel room anyway. Jack is on the naught list! I wish he would have posted something on Instagram or something. Houston sucks and I’m here for no reason lol!

The only thing that will make up for this travesty is if all 3 JT boys play together in Dallas.

I saw a proposed bill in the senate that would up the national minimum wage to $25 an hour. Don’t get me wrong, I think this is absolutely fair and necessary! All power to the workers. Who on earth can live off $7.25?? However it does make me wonder about our salaries in education. I look at the other professional adults in my life and their salaries seem to keep going up. Meanwhile we sit here fighting for our lives day in and day out and basically have continued to get broker and broker bc our pay doesn’t keep up with inflation. We’re losing money in this field. At what point is this just not worth it anymore?

Hi all,

I know this board is very specifically titled “international teachers”, but have any of you met any international school counselors? I am a high school counselor in the US and interested in working at an international school abroad. I was also a school teacher for 8 years, so I assume I might wind up falling back on teaching if I get a job abroad. But I was wondering if any of you have seen this in your experience? I love school counseling and I would be curious about doing it abroad, but obviously standards are different in each country so not sure how desirable I would be.

Honestly, I’m thinking hard about moving my husband and I in with my mom. She is widowed and lives alone in the house I grew up in. She struggles with money, but she makes it by. My husband and I bought our first house 5 years ago. We struggle with money but we make it by. It just seems crazy to all be struggling with money! If we combine into one house, everyone will be financially set! But the stigma is holding us back. My husband and I did what we were supposed to do. We got married, bought a house. It’s hard though! There’s no money left for travel or travel. If we didn’t feel like such failures moving back in with my mom, I think we would do it. Why are we so stubborn about this in America??

My husband and I have lived in the house that we bought together for 5 years. It’s a cute house and we love our neighborhood. My in laws live in a neighboring suburb. All of the sudden we get the news that my sister in law has bought a house in our neighborhood and is going to move their dad, step mom, and special needs brother in to live there. My sister in law doesn’t even live in the country anymore. So she’s buying the house with my father in law I guess? But no one told us this was happening until they’d already put in an offer. My in laws are now one street over from us. They could have picked anywhere to buy this house. They have no connections to our little suburb except for us. So why would they choose one street away from us? It feels like such an encroachment. We aren’t close to them. I don’t know if they’ll actually be invasive and show up unannounced or not. I don’t know if it will ever actually be an issue. Maybe they’ll mind their business. But I still hate it. They could have gone anywhere! It’s not like our neighborhood is especially nice or coveted. I just love it because we’ve made it our home. Now it feels slightly tainted. Am I wrong?