My First Week of Work...

So, after my first "official"week of work (I say "official" because I actually had students last week and tutored about 28 kids), I really like my job! It is definitely a change of pace for me after doing pretty much nothing but law (and specifically family and juvenile law) for the last 4 years, but I think working with kids again is going to be a lot of fun. The kids I am working with range between the ages of 3 and 15 and their ability levels also vary between very low level to average for their grade level, to very very high. And I think I really hit it off with most of the kids (and their parents).

It was kind of a tough week though because it was basically 5 "first" days of school. I was meeting a new child and their parents pretty much every hour for six hours for the whole week. And tutoring is definitely more tiring than clerking was because I am completely on and need to be engaged and enthusiastic for 6 straight hours a day, and need to plan 30 individual lessons a week. It's good though, and I definitely can't complain about the hours (1pm-8pm Sunday through Thursday) and the money is also good. I am enjoying the working hours because I get to sleep in a little, get the apartment to myself for a few hours, get a good work out, and get stuff done around the house. Then, when I get home from work, Jared already has dinner started. A pretty nice situation if you ask me! Everyone I work with is also really nice -- An Indian woman is the English small-groups tutor (interesting, right?), a British man is the Math small-groups tutor, and an Irish woman is the other one-to-one tutor. It seems like I am going to really like working there, and feel very very fortunate to have found a job so easily in this economy...

The only somewhat interesting encounter I had was with a mother of one of my students who thinks that I am going to give her daughter an "American accent" by working with her... Well, I was just a little bit offended... I don't think I have an accent at all, and particularly not when I could have a really terrible American accent, like a Masshole (Pahk the cah in hahvard yahd) accent, or worse yet, a Southern Accent (no offense to my family living south of the Mason Dixon line)... All in all though, I think I am going to have a great year tutoring!