Will Snaps

In a short ten minutes, my Thanksgiving break starts. Will, on the other hand, did not need to go to work at all this week. I guess teachers and counselors need longer vacations because of all the hard work they do.

On a couple of occasions, we have gone out with a group of teachers and, as I listen to them complain about all the hard work they do, I have two conflicting feelings. As a former teacher, I remember that teaching was very hard work. I remember having to stay late and grade papers and deal with some annoying kids and their more annoying parents. Teaching was hard and I complained about it. But, conflicting with this empathy is an even stronger feeling: teaching is hard, yes, but you know what is harder? Law school. Put all those teachers in law school for two months and suddenly teaching? Eh, not such a big deal after all.

Don't get me wrong, I really do think teaching is hard work. It's just not that hard. This is not to say that law school is the hardest thing on the planet, either; there are certainly things a lot harder than law school. Being a crab fisherman in Alaska, for example. Now there's a job to get drunk and complain about.

Although I'd argue that I was the one who needed the extra days off, I can say with some certainty that Will got substantially more things done than I would have. He washed a big pile of laundry. He cleaned the living room. He vacuumed the carpet. He packed for our Thanksgiving trip to Southern California. He even had time leftover to study Spanish, read a book, and take some photographs. I just loved the hydrant photo, above, and set several more of his photographs to automatically post on the Daily Snap over the next week. Most of the photos are of the trees around our apartment complex, many of which have leaves that are turning lovely colors.

Left alone for one more day, Will might have cooked up a turkey. The more I think about the situation, the more I think that some extra days of vacation for Will? Not such a bad idea after all.

Comments

[Hope]

It's quite impressive to make a fire hydrant look beautiful!

Kristian gets a lot more done on days off than me. I tend to sit around relaxing. He tends to do things like clean the yard. We had radically different days last Sunday. :p

[Zandria]

I hope you have a most wonderful Thanksgiving holiday! You deserve the break. :)

[Erin]

As a teacher myself, I find the teachers who complain the most about it being hard are the teachers that do the least amount of work and have the easiest teaching jobs. They teach children who talk and don't wear diapers. And they only work the contracted hours. I would like to argue that law school is not as hard as teaching 7 3-5 year old with moderate to severe disabilities...put a lawyer in my classroom for 5 minutes and suddenly law school seems like party school! But, even though my job is hard, it's the best job in the world!

[Lindsey]

I understand, I have considered everything else quite simple since I started an accelerated nursing program...and I hate listening to people gripe about how hard their lives are, since they have no CLUE!

But to be honest, I could never go to law school!

[Katie]

That man's a keeper!

[Pink Chihuahua Princess]

Having taught and done law school myself...girl, I agree!!

[Cat]

Having taught and gone to post prof school, i agree with you. And I worked in one of those Snooty, Top-Tier, Manhattan private schools. You can't possibly imagine the complaining that goes on there. It's an artform.