Tuesday, January 31, 2012

What happened to me being a blogger?

What? I started this blog how many years ago?! Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time, but I got busy and sort of forgot about it. Now I'm taking a class in which I am required to create and share a blog, so here I am again. I think my topic for awhile will be what it's like to be an educator for most of your adult life and then start thinking about doing something altogether different. I retired about a year and a half ago, but I'm still going to school every day and I'm still the principal. I'm like a "rent-a-principal." It's a great deal for the school because it saves the district many thousands of dollars since they no longer have to pay my benefits. It's a great deal for me because the pressure is off (sort of) in that I don't have a contract to speak of, so my commitment is all in my head. But deal or no deal, it's time for me to transition out of school. I've outgrown it. Normal human beings do that by age 18. It took me until my current age, which is older than 18...way older! I really meant to become a teacher and stay a teacher all the way to retirement. I got sidetracked. Besides high schools, other places I've worked include a city newspaper, small town radio station, hospital morgue, chamber of commerce, various restaurants, a golf course, women's clothing store, three different universities, a public library, and a Detroit car factory. Because I jumped around from thing to thing so much for so long, it surprises me that I have now lived in the same house and kept the same job for the last 16 years. I think five or so years doing the same thing in the same place is long enough, but these last 16 years have flown by so fast I didn't notice! But now I'm noticing. Sixteen years!!? Who am I kidding? That's long enough and bordering on too long.