The Gathering Place

Hi,

I am Elissa, 23 on Sunday and I live in soCal. Ive been selling for a little over a month now. I am currently just selling to get rid of Disney Pins that I spent waaay too much money on. I just got my teaching credential last June and am currently subbing looking for a 5th/6th grade position. Oh and I do love it here

Hi,

Happy birthday Elissa! Congrats on your anniversary Donna, that is a long time! I am David (if you didn't notice). I work for Auctiva so I am forced to love it here I have noticed that buying and selling on eBay is pretty addicting! It's great! One thing I really want to buy right now... PASTA! mmmm... does anyone sell pasta on eBay?

Hello Donna, Elissa, and David.
Congratulations on you marriage, teaching degree, and job.
I am what you call old school geek. I know colbal computer language or did. Have done too much to mention here, memory overrun buffer….

It's crazy.. I recently heard something like 60 or 80% of all applications currently running today are written (at least in part) in Cobol.. a language that is like 50 years old!

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a language that is like 50 years old!

That is what I was trying to avoid!

Suthrnjewl<----------laughed so hard at the answer almost spewed liquid on the monitor

HAHA!
Donna

I'm just in from high school Friday night football.

PHEW! 10,000+ turn out. SOLD OUT!
And yes, we're still #1 ranked in the nation.

Time for my beauty sleep!
Thanks for the smile HG!
David pasta? Homemade? Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

Elissa? Nice to meet you...C'mon and jump in with us. I have many friends that are teachers and family members..noble profession.

Speaking of noble professions, gotta end the eBay'ing for the evening.

Tah!
Donna

Hey Donna don't you have some pasta recipies for David?

Oh BTW - for those that don't know me . . .

Been selling on ebay for seveal years now and currently have two ID's one for clothing and one for lingerie.

I'm 36 and married for 10yrs with two wonderful boys that I homeschool. Before being a Mom I used to teach preschool.

I also live in FL down south from Donna on the gulf coast. My DH has a Charter Boat so if anyone ever heads this way give us a hollar

Pasta recipes, I have!
Pasta the food...well, gimme your pasta pleasure and I'll whip it right up for you.

As a matter of fact, I'm in the mood for some Bruschetta...add a little pasta primavera, caesar salad and I'll be Good To Go!

What time is everyone coming for dinner?
Donna

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Originally posted by wahm922:

I also live in FL down south from Donna on the gulf coast. My DH has a Charter Boat so if anyone ever heads this way give us a hollar

How bout that link for the Charter Boat site?
<smile>

Take care, Donna

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How bout that link for the Charter Boat site?

Well if you insist

http://www.SeaFischerCharters.com

And No that's not my DH pictures up there, that's our Captain!

I did however take the pics of Begger the dolphin and the osprey nests and the sunsets.

Its a work in progress and needs a makeover if ya ask me.

Yup, it should be - I'll email the webmaster and let him know. My husbands partner hired someone to do the site and I don't have access. If I had access it sure would look alot better

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Originally posted by swimordie:
Hi,

I am Elissa, 23 on Sunday and I live in soCal. Ive been selling for a little over a month now. I am currently just selling to get rid of Disney Pins that I spent waaay too much money on. I just got my teaching credential last June and am currently subbing looking for a 5th/6th grade position. Oh and I do love it here

Hi Elissa. Ex teacher here! Used to teach middle school English, as well as computers, typing, newspaper, spelling bee, just about everything. Are teaching jobs as scarce in California as they are here in Minnesota? Good luck with your job search!

Teachers are an undervalued commodity in our society. My younger sister still teaches fifth grade and I truly admire her. I just couldn't ever go back, though. It just ate up so much of my time. Try grading over 100 writing papers! (My younger sister, however, manages time better and is a teaching whiz!)

Hi Annkate.


Actually teaching jobs aren't that scarce because of all the hoops we have to jump through in ca. We have the CBEST, RICA, and CSET testing to deal with...NCLB...and all other crazy CA stuff. Focus walls, etc. I just was being picky this year

Wow you sure have done many things


Its also great to meet all of you all! I just got back online since it was my bday this weekend and I was busy!!

Liss

GOBS of teaching jobs here in FL. With my county alone, jobs are at a premium. (pay however isn't but that's another subject)

I was once again asked to substitute. I once again declined unless it's elementary and that's iffy at best.

Subbing is scary. New kid on the block every day. Minnesota teaching jobs are always scarce. I think it's because we have pretty high pay here, good education system, including colleges. I think a lot of people who go to school here stay here. Even years ago teaching positions were scarce. Elementary applications were 1,000 applicants per opening, 800 or more for secondary positions. That was back in the 80's and 90's when I was in the field. Now, with education cutbacks, teacher cuts, I can't imagine there's many positions.

Isn't it awesome that we will pay some guy millions of dollars a year to throw a ball through a hoop, but we won't pay people anything to educate our children? Shows where our culture's priorities are for sure.

It truly is disheartening. You want to know what else is disheartening? The lack of parent involvement in their child's education. I never had a single student who failed because he/she couldn't understand the material. The only reason students failed with me was because they didn't complete their work. Students didn't respect their education and parents didn't either. Parents need to promote education at home.

Yeah my parents weren't exactly thrilled when I said I wanted to be a teacher. I was top five of my class with a 4.1 GPA and they thought I was wasting it on a job that doesn't pay well. However, as people know, its a calling. Ive always known thats what I wanted to do. Too bad they don't pay us better. I mean without us what would the future be like?