Get Your Students Hired
I was brought on about a year ago to work in a new department at our career school. Because it was new at this location, there weren't many instructors and virtually no precedent when it came to creating a course beyond the learning objectives.
This means not only teaching twice a week, but also developing a completely new course every five weeks. This, combined with a long commute and lackadaisical and uncooperative students has caused significant stress. Though I'm sure that this has been discussed over and over - I did find the pacing to be much better for both learning - and teaching - back during the days of the ten-week terms.
However, working through the stress is itself a reward. Always could be worse right?
I am working at a career school myself, where things feeling like they are continuously piling. A long commute, 3 children, long hours, job responsibilities and obviously bills.
I'm overwhelmed most of the time, but make it a point to slow my mind down and appreciate everything I created for myself.
My long commute is due to living where I want. The hours I work help me to take care of bills and essentials, and add to the fact that I am needed and relied on at work. My children are the reason I can keep going.