It's This Kind Of Thing That Frustrates Me

This afternoon, aware that I am now going to be here almost a week and a half longer than I initially thought, I spent some time poking around on craigslist looking for something both engaging and temporary that someone might pay me to do. Over the course of this year when I am actually here in the Bay Area, this present time included, I work as a substitute teacher at Rebecca's school. This is great in that I get to carpool to and from work with her, as well as get paid well to do something that comes very naturally to me now and which I very much enjoy. This is not great because people are only absent so often, so the work is kind of sporadic.

Interested in what other more regularly-scheduled options might exist, I was looking in the "ETC" category of the Employment section. This posting's title caught my eye:

Part-Time Night Audit/Front Desk: C'Mon Inn, $65k/year

I just want to say that good thing I went to graduate school, twice, and have taught for a dozen years as a fully-credentialled teacher because this PART-TIME position and the friendly, family-oriented "C'Mon Inn" pays much more than my teaching salary does. Good thing. And in The State of The Union address we are told that No Child Left Behind is *working*? Seriously, come now...I teach in an independent school where we are not bound by the guidelines and requirements of that program and even I can tell you it is not working, not when you pay a part-time hotel auditor and front-desk employee more than you pay a veteran educator and teacher trainer. That actually says to me that there are a LOT of things that are not working right now. Harrumph, as Aaron would say. Harrumph.