When Nick applied for the job in Boling, he thought it was his dream job. When he was in college he would tell me how he wanted to go back to Wharton and be an Ag teacher in Boling. Boling is known for their strong ag department. They win big all the time. They are a 3 teacher Ag department and only a 2A school, which goes to show how "into" ag they are. To them, ag is what sports are in most school....#1. Nick found out in April last year that one ag teacher was losing his job due to cheating. Of course, everyone in the community knew that this guy had cheated in the Houston Livestock Show, but no one ever made much of a fuss about it. Actually, I've heard that it was his second time to cheat. The first time he was warned and the second time he was canned. Very sad that someone would go so far as to cheat to win and put their own job on the line for a student.
Yesterday morning Nick had to be at school at 6:15am to start getting animals ready for the fair that starts this weekend. I was very very very ANGRY when he didn't get home until 12:30am. It's going to be like that for the next two weeks. I'd be fine with this job if he was making a decent amount of money for the amount of time he has to put in. I told him this morning that if you sat down and figured out his hourly wage, he probably makes $.50 an hour. I think he puts in more hours than any doctor puts in. He usually has something to do with work every weekend. It's really just disgusting.
He found a couple other teaching jobs that he is very interested in. We are working on getting all of his stuff together and sending it in. He called one guy he knows about a job and he told them that he could get him the job if he really wanted it. We found out yesterday that he would be making more money and probably put in half the amount of time. Say a prayer that it all works out for us. There is no way that I'd ever let him stay working at a place like this. How terrible would a job like this be when we decide to have children?
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It's never good to put the hours to pay schedule up. During residency I figured at one point Brian was making about 22 cents an hour. We at least had the one day you won't have to do this card. Hope you all find that light at the end of the tunnel too!
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