I Act Like a Smarta$$ This Morning.....And Tell You Stuff You Don't Want to Hear....And I Beg You Not to Do This....

 Last evening, for " shits and giggles" as the British would say, I looked at the opening for teachers in the local school districts. What can I say, I was bored.

I fully expected to be few if any.....To my surprise, there were more than I expected. Then again, the economy in our area has always been sort of "Mundus Inversus" or, we often do well when the rest of the country is suffering, and when they rest of the country is doing well, well, we are doing poorly. In economics, this revolves around the price of oil. Literally an " Upside Down World." I could go into a history of Tarot and the " Upside Down Card" or the " Hanged Man" but I am hoping to stay out of Hell already on some sort of technicality already....And please don't send me religious literature. Don't send missionaries to the house. I already have someone sending me Prayer Cards from Opus Dei. ( Yes, a former student is sending them...)

Seriously,  I was somewhat surprised at the number of faculty openings.  Hell, there were even History teacher jobs and to be honest traditionally they are hard to find for "non-coaching" academics at the high school level. And these were....

Heck, I even found an opening for a Literae Humaniores teacher, as they would call it at Oxford, someone to teach Latin. Who is in 2025 in SE Texas is taking Latin is well, beyond me. ( Back in the day there were two degrees when Oxford and Cambridge were founded.) Literae Humaniores ( the Classics) and  Literae Divinae, and also called, Res Divinae( Theology)...

So, Govteach, Kerry Don, Mr. Thomas, why do you mention this????

They are predicting at least, 2.2 million people to be laid off/fired between now and April of 2026. Jobs as my late Grandfather would say are as " Scarce as Hen's Teeth.."  

2.2 million people sending out resumes are a bunch of people looking for work and the day and age of AI, well, more and more businesses are laying off people. 

Already the people are being let go from their jobs left and right. 

Some of the first actual jobs to be taken, will be teaching positions, or other ancillary positions in school districts. I've seen it before. Especially people who have degrees that they can turn into teaching positions. The sad part is, so many will leave the job as son as the economy gets better. There have always been people who looked at it as a job, and people like Mr. Taucer and myself who saw teaching as a "calling."

If you got a job, unless you have another one lined up, well, I'd hang onto what I got. 

I'm going back to my East Texas roots here....

It's fixin' to get rough....