Break
I have the strangest job: high school teacher. Yes, the orange peels thrown at me from across the room by "at-risk" adolescents is part of the strangeness, but it isn't what I am referring to here.
The strangeness I'm referring to comes in the form of winter, spring, and summer break.
These breaks may be one of the points of contempt against teachers by other other professionals trapped in exploitative jobs without protections in the form of the civil right to quality of life and leisure. In my opinion, we should all have them, though teachers require them solely based on the nature of the job when it is moving: the level of stress and the extra time it calls for alone calls for rest.
This juxtaposition of lifestyle is where shit gets weird. I am unclear as to whether or not this experience of weeks and months of "what humans were likely meant to live like" to many months of "what human's were definitely not genetically programed for" is what lead me to so many books that deal with the theme of our modern lifestyles working against our ancient biology OR those books lead me to see it in the experience of my career.
Sadly, many people I know ask, "What's it like (all that leisure)?"
The honest answer: "Like being human."
The strangeness I'm referring to comes in the form of winter, spring, and summer break.
These breaks may be one of the points of contempt against teachers by other other professionals trapped in exploitative jobs without protections in the form of the civil right to quality of life and leisure. In my opinion, we should all have them, though teachers require them solely based on the nature of the job when it is moving: the level of stress and the extra time it calls for alone calls for rest.
This juxtaposition of lifestyle is where shit gets weird. I am unclear as to whether or not this experience of weeks and months of "what humans were likely meant to live like" to many months of "what human's were definitely not genetically programed for" is what lead me to so many books that deal with the theme of our modern lifestyles working against our ancient biology OR those books lead me to see it in the experience of my career.
Sadly, many people I know ask, "What's it like (all that leisure)?"
The honest answer: "Like being human."
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