New poll on the subject of loving your job or not.
OK, putting this here. Thru the end of 2019, my job as a tutor was ideal. Great fellow teachers, awesome students (for the most part), knew I did a good job. [for my poll it would get a 2.5 rounded up-I had some issues with the curricula we used]
Then in April '21 my boss, half my age note, started to gaslight me and blame me for a bunch of stuff which I didn’t do. The last straw was my having to save an ACT client, who was so confused by her last session with another teacher that she only did 7 questions out of 20 on her homework assignment, completely lost. [checking his log I noticed he was so oblivious to her state of distress that he went to a completely different chapter in another subject for the last 10 minutes.] She left in immensely better spirits after I explained everything.
So I get called into a meeting with my boss, who proceeds to blather about how “80%” of test prep students don’t want to work with me, incl. one young man I had for his first day who said “thank you” at the end of the session-then allegedly told my boss he didn’t want to be with me anymore. After I went over my salvage session, he just blithely said “Oh! Everyone wants to work with X exclusively, but nobody wants to work with you!”
I immediately notified him that I was officially putting in my 2 weeks’ notice and walked out. If we were in a bar or something I would have socked him right in the jaw, but I managed to maintain my composure. Then his mother just repeated his lies to me-note they both couched their horseshit in religious trappings, and I stuck with my plan to resign. At that point it would have been a -2 on my poll.
That was almost 3 years ago, been quasi-retired since, had to deal with my mother’s loss this past year after I had to move to her Ohio town to clean out both her house and apartment (she was a terrible hoarder and it cost me 40K to clean out the house. I may try to find a part-time position as an environmental educator this spring, but don’t need the income.