Get Kris a Kareer.

I decided the other day that teaching isn't for me. I was sitting in front of a computer staring at the screen and dreading the day ahead and I decided right then and there that it's not a path I'm going to pursue. Spending 80% of my time telling students to sit down, be quite, stop hitting each other, and to stop stealing each others' pens is just exhausting. It's not why I wanted to be a teacher. So I'm going to explore other options before I put my fist through the shell of bone that is/are my student's skull.

Only problem IS, my faithful children of the internet, is that I'm not actually qualified to do much else. Oh sure, I can wait tables like a god damn CHAMPION and, yeah, I've got retail skills - but nothing meaty. Nothing substantial that I can wave in front of an employers face and be all like "yeah guy, I'm the man for the job".

(I'll even awkwardly smile at your racist jokes)

This leaves me in a bit of a quandary. How am I supposed to move sideways or up in my career progression? Fortunately I'm of an adequate age to be starting again in this sense but I'm in a different country dontcha know. I don't have time nor the economic capacity to be going back to uni to learn this sort of thing! Besides, I'm surrounded by examples of people who have succeeded without university so I know it can be done. Just gotta get down and do it.

My strategies for now are to write in this blog more frequently in case I end up going for a job in social media (this includes ramping up my twitter account: https://twitter.com/KrisComma ) and also to start networking. It's who you know, not what you know - right? I'm going to try and use the gay network to the best of my ability. I'm not saying that I will prostitute myself by any means but if it comes to a situation where I'm trading sex for steady employment then .... it's a grey area I'm willing to look into. Don't you judge me!

 

(Case in point, I do not know Barack Obama personally - hence why he has not employed me)

I can write to generation Y! I can convey tone! Sure my punctuation is all awry and, yes, my turn of phrase can be quite roundabout... but some people (myself) think it's endearing (because it IS) so I'm not going to stop. Let's hope operation "Get Kris a Kareer" goes well. I'll keep you posted.

Kris.