travisl12

I can’t agree enough. It’s sort of like those massive paintings recreated in CSS. They are a neat achievement, yet sort of reveals a vast emptiness that exists within the author.

My solution is pretty easy to this problem: I don't.

Yeah severance is pretty good. I'll try to get a gig quick and then push off the start date a bit.

The info about layoffs leaked about 3 weeks ago, which was messed up.

Overall though the severence is healthy, so I'll be plenty ok while I find another gig.

Changes in life are an opportunity and that's always something to get excited about. Full steam ahead!

I'll be ok, but your thoughts really are appreciated. Nice words from nice people are always a welcomed thing.

It's a long tail starting back in the days of my great great great great grandfather. Back in the mother country he was tired of the same old same old and decided to travel to the New World to start anew. 300 years later I was born here :)

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My wife is a 3rd grade teacher in the Bay Area and to hear stories from the other side of the online classroom. She's perfectly internet savvy and there are a lot of online parent/teacher communication platforms that she uses. Normally, being a teacher is pretty damn stressful and the hours are looong. But this has taken a step into a new direction of anxiety and stress.

Adding to the list of things that a teacher already is responsible with doing is Tech Support. Because now parents are emailing her stupid questions that are easily google-able about Google Classroom.

* "How do I upload a picture?"

* "Can you email me the google classroom link again?"

* "What's the login for my kid? (omg this question)"

* "Where's the thing to click on? (fuuuuuuu.....)"

The district is now starting to have a minimum of 8 mandatory teaching sessions to parents on how these things work. EIGHT.

We cannot translate online classrooms 1:1 with the real thing. I wish the district would take a breath and approach this with a little bit more understanding that this is a whole new ballgame. I know parents need their kids to be somewhat occupied during the day (I have 2 kids under 4 so I get it), but overall it's not very pleasant for teachers.

> An easy startup is a headwind; a hard startup is a tailwind...

Is that backwards? Wouldn't a tail wind represent "easier"?