[LMB] avid Bujold fans OT:

[Peter Newman]

> JenL <jenl1625 at gmail.com> wrote

> On 9/29/07, Peter Newman <pnewman at gci.net> wrote:
>> The good news is that's because I own my own condo. The bad news
>> is that with the condo and the savings as an 'asset' I'll most
>> likely be ineligible for assistance. The good (?) news is I'm an
>> ornery libertarian type who is probably to proud to take the
>> government aid anyway.

> Can you prepay the taxes?  A lot of times, your home doesn't actually count
> as a resource, but money in the bank definitely would.  (I'm a libertarian
> type, too, but have been thoroughly exposed to the common edges of
> assistance rules through my job.)

No, they haven't been assessed yet. I just know I
won't have the money when they are unless I save up
for it, as a responsible person should, and as a
poor person had better.


>> The good news is that I do still have that teaching degree and
>> could probably pick up work as a substitute teacher pretty easily
>> thereby solving the money problem. The bad news is I disliked
>> teaching so much, and was disliked so much by my students, that
>> this does not sound like much fun. The good news
>> is that being a substitute teacher is _way_ less work than
>> being a regular teacher.

> Fun.  Is tutoring any better than substitute teaching?

Tutoring is worse than substitute teaching. In fact other than
the fact that you have only 1 student, not many, tutoring is
worse than teaching, since you have no authority and since
the students and their parents have very different expectations.
Besides all they ever want are math and reading, and I was
social studies. (BA Political Science & Economics, MA in
Teaching (Secondary)).