u/misu749

20F here so technically I’m not a qualified teacher I didn’t graduate with any teaching degrees but I am a cover/supply teacher for secondary school/middle school. I’m not really required to teach per se but I like supporting students when I can. I work in various schools and cover different subjects each time. When students see cover they tend to get excited because their actual teacher isn’t here and tend to mess about and not do the work. If they don’t do the work that’s on them I can’t force them but the main issue here is them talking so much being disruptive and me not being able to control a noisy misbehaving classroom.

I do think they take advantage of me because I would say I’m pretty nice and don’t enjoy shouting at kids. But even if I do shout they don’t listen. I want to become more strict and I want them to respect me but I don’t know what I should do from now because they already know me as the nice chill cover teacher

I’m going to be covering the same subject in the same school for the next couple of weeks and I really want them to pay attention and learn anyone have any advice?

For context I’ve been driving for a year and a half I do lessons weekly and I suck at driving. My instructors good not the nicest but she critiques me well so I could drive perfectly for my test I keep making the same mistakes and I’m so frustrated at myself because I’m making the slowest progress ever. My main driving faults are planning and preparation - I keep reacting too late. I react and see road signs too late Driving in bends and junctions -apparently I have no control over my steering. Being to close to the curb. Also I hate driving on country side roads I struggle with them because of the high speeds and bends. Like I know what I’m supposed to do slow down anticipate the road ahead gain control with your brakes but I fuck up every lesson with many serious faults and now I don’t think I can ever be good at driving

Guys I’m having second thoughts about the hijab and modesty in general I don’t want to be the person that takes it off but I don’t understand why I’m wearing it why it’s forbidden to show my arms including my wrists and ankles. Some even believing wearing jeans and pants is wrong I believe in modesty but I’m doubting this hyper modestly that Islam enforces upon us “wearing it for Allah” isn’t enough for me to understand why we have to to dress they way we’re supposed to. It’s summer and sometimes I just want to wear a t shirt outside but I can’t Why do women have to carry this burden?

So I’m still at uni, completed second year and I’m going on a placement next year and it’s going to be lab based in the pathology department.

I’m applying for my project choice for my final year at uni and it got me thinking what is it that I actually want to do with my career. Originally I would have said be a biomedical scientist because that just seemed like a clear route but I’ve never had such a strong passion from doing lab work in my university practicals so I’m not sure that’s what I want to do for the rest of my life. Maybe after doing my placement it’ll become clearer to me for what I want

So for my project choice I want to do something in either cell biology or biochemistry but idk if I should do something non lab based like bioinformatics. I just thought it would be good to expand my skills but idek what to do in the future.

I was thinking clinical data analyst but I don’t have experience in computer science. Anyone doing any non lab based jobs - what’s your job and how do you find it. Or anyone doing lab based work feel free to share your thoughts