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YEAH, BUT THERE’S NO PLACE TO HANG YOUR DILBERT CARTOONS

September 16, 2005 1 min read
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Another career changer, North Carolina writing teacher Waterfall, points out what she wryly calls “another teaching ‘plus’":

On days like today, when I'm really tired and my sinuses are acting up and my patience is short, I tend to shuffle off into my own little dark corner of the world and feel sorry for myself. In Cubicle Land, it was easy to do this. I would wallow in my depressing little stew for days on end, feeling miserable and hating my life.
When you're teaching school, it's next to impossible to behave in such a self-absorbed way.
This is a good thing.

(From A Sort of Notebook.)

A version of this news article first appeared in the Blogboard blog.

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