On 16/05/2010 7:30 AM, Jim Charter wrote:

> As it happens, here I am at 2am Sunday morning working on PowerPoint
> presentations for the class I teach on Monday. I get paid by the hour
> for time in the classroom. This time I spend now would be tolerably
> classified as 'time given' to the job. A job that has zero security.
> But...this time spent: makes the job in the classroom easier, elevates
> the quality of my teaching, and elevates the reputation of the program.
> Or so I hope.


work outside working hours. Always improving and preparing.

> Have I forgotten the bitter lesson learned when the
> corporate world gave me the boot? Not sure. I believe I do this more for
> myself now, not so to please others. But it is difficult to be sure.

It is difficult, all those years of giving your all leaves ingrained habits.

> As far as just taking the money? Yes, but the real value of this gig is the
> health care benefits. And for that I need to stay around.
>






> The new head of the Taxi & Limousine Commission comes to the school on
> Monday presumably to inform himself on the current state of taxi
> training. I am being scheduled to teach, rather than other instructors I
> am guessing, because of my 'smart room' innovations. The more I talk
> about it, the more I am thinking I've been sucked back in :O


It is hard not to be. Especially if you are contentious.

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Best Regards,
	Stephen

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