We are supposed to be reflective practitioners, but when does "reflection" become REFRACTION. Change in direction, change in speed - that is what is happening!
Some people are posting that they are burnt out and have senioritis. I agree. I agree with all of it, that we all come to class and like to interact with our friends. I have met some truly wonderful people in this program. I will actually miss the interaction and hope that i will have such friends when I begin working, IF I START WORKING.
Since I am a writer, I can just bury myself in my writing and live off grants. But how myopic does that get? My new book is dealing with discourse, genocide and string theory. It's done and I am waiting for yes and no letters from certain publishers.
My dad and I were discussing this (our dinner conversations often entail such grueling discussions as he is a nuclear/structural engineer) and he thinks it's a bunch of bullshit. Maybe he is right, fermions and bosons are it, etc. and spin being a very "cool" thing that isn't real science. Maybe. Should have gone into science. Forget art, poetry and all that stuff. Maybe the girls will go into physics and follow the family path of quantum physics, engineering and the like. I doubt it! Maybe after getting a PhD in physics they'll choose to go into options and derivatives, only to find that they want to be a teacher or something.
These reflections are becoming very tedious really. It's making me cynical, negative, and inert.
It's all a bunch of neural circuitry anyway.
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A colleague was explaining to me that she and her husband just bought their 6th property - that their rental income will now exceed their annual income, and now, they could retire.
However, she is a special ed teacher, loves her job, and has no intentions of retiring.
Maybe the fact that you could choose to stay at home with the kids full time, or write for a living, or teach community college gives you the freedom to choose to keep teaching.
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