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  1. edit: bit long. Summary: Left second job in 6 months. New job = good.
     

    Never updated this interesting year. As previously mentioned in the thread I gave up a permanent (basically lifetime gig) position at end of last year due to outright bullying and nepotism, to move to a 12 month contract at another school. Which started well… was given literacy (lol) leadership opportunities through a range of amazing professional learning. However as the weeks ticked along, the more and more shambolic the place is. It’s in a huge transition and they have a lot of high end behaviours. Easily the toughest school behaviour wise I’ve seen. My particular class was chaotic. So many issues. So sad, and so underfunded. Honestly out of the 24 students I had identified at least half with a difficulty or learning disability. 
     

    The behaviours were intense, I was told to lock out students, a student was hitting teachers (never me but had a lot thrown at me) and these poor kids are only…6. Anyway, having tried to raise points about certain dynamics in the class the support system was quite shitty tbh. Parents in their droves complained to the principal about behaviours (I urged them to talk to leadership), and eventually they found an education assistant to help most days. Didn’t help, I ended up trying so many things. It was seriously draining. Realising this was a pattern across the school I applied elsewhere. 
     

    I managed to win an interview and subsequently a position in the private sector at an incredibly high performing school. I told my school at the time of this news and they said that’s great etc etc and then 3 hours later made the decision to pull me from my class. I ended up taking a week stress leave as this was quite a fucked thing to do. I was then the “relief” and was in one of the other most challenging classes for a couple of days a week for the last 4 weeks of the term. The teacher that took over my initial class is now already leaving. She’s more experienced and has been at the tough school for years…

    The behaviour support for this year four class? A tick chart and lollies and chocolates if these students stay in the room, don’t fight etc. fucking stupid systems.

    Anyway, loving the new job. Long hours and on the other side of the city, and with after school expectations. Very different. But sometimes you’ve got to move and take risks! 
     

     

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  2. 12 I think, a few times but that’s usually been part one of two legs into Europe.

    Sister just got back from a direct flight from Rome (15 hours and 40 minutes). 
     

    Not aware of any flights longer than 25 hours Tommy lol I guess the question can include the whole journey. If that’s the case easily 24 hours, including stopovers. 

  3. I’m not as good as I should be in this regard. 
     

    My sister lives in essentially a self sustainable tiny house and never uses plastic etc etc. How she lives is very impressive. 
     

    One good thing about Australia or WA at least is the single use plastic changes and plastic bag usage etc, single use plastic bags were gone a few years ago. 
     

     

  4. 16 hours ago, CaaC (John) said:

    Believe it or not, some don't, you still get quite a few guys who pass out watching a birth. xD

    Emergency c section for us. So a different experience there. I was comforting the missus, as that’s full on! 

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  5. On 29/06/2023 at 16:14, CaaC (John) said:

     Are you going to be at the birth, @Stan? the best thing ever buddy especially when the midwife/nurse smacks  the baby's bum and then hearing the first cry of life. :x

    Do people not go to the birth? Huh? 

  6. On 27/06/2023 at 21:56, Stan said:

    We'd been trying for a while, so the missus was fairly anxious about it. So she got up in the middle of the night about 2-3am. Then woke me up in floods of happy tears and said she's pregnant.

    I think my first reaction was obviously shock, but then I asked her 'is this a dream' xDxD. Pure elation for a good few hours after that, struggled to get back to sleep!

    Amazing! 
     

    I ended up going out later after I found out and got so drunk.haha

    I was incredibly happy but still in a bit of shock because we were so fortunate that we literally only just started trying (I thought it could take us a while). My initial reaction was “are you sure?” And to double check 😂  

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  7. I transitioned to non alcoholic beer during my longest steak (only 3 months) and found that helped. 
     

    Recently, I just have a mineral water or water if I’m thirsty. Had a couple of beers since the last stretch. But have found having a replacement drink lined up helps in social situations. 

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  8. Thought I would finally log back in to acknowledge the fans after another trophy. "We couldn't have done it without you. From relegation spots to top 6, it's been a wild ride. Thank you for staying loyal. Glory HUNTED."

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  9. Most likely there’s a form of life out there. Could be similar to ours, could be a bacteria, could this life look like what we often see depicted in media? Probably not? But also why not? Haha. 
     

    I don’t think we will ever know though, as in certainly not our generation or the next fair few…

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