Occupier Finds Out that Expensive Degree in Puppetry is Really Paying Off
So what does a degree in puppetry cost, anyway? About $35,000. And the genius quit his job to pursue it.
A few years ago, Joe Therrien, a graduate of the NYC Teaching Fellows program, was working as a full-time drama teacher at a public elementary school in New York City. Frustrated by huge class sizes, sparse resources and a disorganized bureaucracy, he set off to the University of Connecticut to get an MFA in his passion—puppetry. Three years and $35,000 in student loans later, he emerged with degree in hand, and because puppeteers aren’t exactly in high demand, he went looking for work at his old school. The intervening years had been brutal to the city’s school budgets—down about 14 percent on average since 2007. A virtual hiring freeze has been in place since 2009 in most subject areas, arts included, and spending on art supplies in elementary schools crashed by 73 percent between 2006 and 2009. So even though Joe’s old principal was excited to have him back, she just couldn’t afford to hire a new full-time teacher. Instead, he’s working at his old school as a full-time “substitute”; he writes his own curriculum, holds regular classes and does everything a normal teacher does. “But sub pay is about 50 percent of a full-time salaried position,” he says, “so I’m working for half as much as I did four years ago, before grad school, and I don’t have health insurance…. It’s the best-paying job I could find.”
Yeah, too bad about all the debt you piled up on the puppetry degree. But I see no reason why I should pay for your stupidity.
OWS being a leftist enclave, guess what Joe has ended up doing. If you guessed that it has something to do with giant puppets, give yourself a ceegar.
At one of Arts and Culture’s meetings—held adjacent to 60 Wall Street, at a quieter public-private indoor park that’s also the atrium of Deutsche Bank—it dawned on Joe: “I have to build as many giant puppets as I can to help this thing out—people love puppets!”
No, Joe, children and left wing protester dopes love puppets. The rest of us put that kid stuff away when we outgrew it.
These idiots really are parodies of a caricature of the infantile left, aren’t they.
pjmedia.com
.....
MassCon
He left a good paying job to follow his passion…dude has been listening to too many hollywood movies. This type of liberal pap has been infiltrating the hearts and minds of the last generation and now unfortunately they wake up and find themselves in a real world.
Sure, Steve Jobs told people to follow their dreams. And Nancy Pelosi deplored people not following their dreams because they were 'job-locked.' Following your dream is risky and you'd better be prepared to fail. And if you do fail, Steve Jobs won't pick you up. Though Nancy will try to get you food stamps.
.....
KyPerson
My sister has a passion for floral design. However, she has to work. Guess what? She got a part-time job at a florist and learned on the job. This guy should have done the same – or even volunteered with puppeteers. He’d have his job and no debt and would have been able to follow his passion.
But that would be sensible.
Obama's 15 Minutes
I have a passion for wine. There aren’t many jobs in wine and few of them pay well, so I help out sometimes at a local wine shop for $12 an hour. I could never quit my job to do it full-time, but it’s nice to get paid for pursuing my hobby.
16. Evil Otto
I went to college, got a degree in special education, and am now working as a teacher. I enjoy it, but I’ve recently come to realize my true calling:
I want to be a dirigible pilot.
Yes, I want to fly blimps. What’s that? There’s only a handful of people who do that on the entire planet? That doesn’t matter, because it’s my dream. I am owed a job. I don’t have a pilot’s license to fly so much as a single-engine Cessna, much less the multi-engine commercial pilot’s license needed… but so what? Society owes me the education and training needed to follow my dream. Society also owes me the millions of dollars it costs to have my own dirigible. Why? Because I want it. That’s why. Shut up.
Who are you to deny me my dream? When the communist revolution happens, I will have my own blimp. And I will fly it over all of you people who told me I couldn’t have one.
.....
BlogDog Are the big puppetry corporations not hiring?
Damn that George Bush and the global cabal of bankers and Zionists!!!
...
|
