The Dark Side of Supply Teaching

Though I've never been tied down to a railway track, I have spend the occasional day of work feeling like I've been hit by a train... but where possible I've still gone to work.

The dark side of Supply Teaching is that when we don't work, we don't get paid. So there are weeks where despite our best efforts to stay healthy we do get sick, and if we want to get paid we work. So we take a cold and flu tablet, put a smile on our face and do our very best. Then we come home and get as much rest as we can.

So that has been my week.

Work. Sleep. A paycheque.

It has meant some social engagements were cancelled, that they gym is a distant memory and that I'm only just finishing up the paperwork from last week's workshop tonight. But the very best bit? I still love my job and love teaching.

It also means that I'm going to wait until tomorrow to email the receipts out to last week's workshop participants as I am quite sure that they need another proof-read before sending them...