• Seeking a Resolution (though who doesn't love a great climax?)
• Horrible work experience/Fun band name: Negative Performance Review
• Turnover Turnover Turnover
• Big Boss Night Visit #1
• Crazy Email Exchange
• Either/Or   Both/And
• Christian Allies with Sketchy Pasts
• Big Boss Night Visit #2
• The Long Mile
• Questions for Later

Yeah, it’s almost an hour, but it’s not too long. It’s filled with rich, chewy goodness.  A lot packed in here, including the coworkers, the bosses, and the clients. 

Corrections, not Rehabilitation.  

How did I grow some ethics over the years? How did I come to care about work?  

More goatbell!  

The next one is the last of these pilot episodes! Then we go in a whole other direction. Stick around!

Jump into the Reflection pool...
What does it mean that a job "didn't work out"? 
The Sunday Scaries. Quit worrying and solve the problems. 
Some of the shit that teachers are dealing with.
No training, no trust. 
That co-worker who gets away with all kindsa sh**.
The reality of the GED.
Grading our podcast progress!

Union affiliations. Hit parade of f***ups. New job training (includes CPR!). Opportunity on the side? Or molotov cocktail? DUALITY. Unemployment and The Butcher of Broadway. AWC (Acting While Casting) (or Casting Under the Influence of Actors). Doing/Being 2 things at once. 

Teenagers, ugh. But look at what they have to deal with. An intro to the pace of bureaucracy. Background of Hollywood driving. Background of teaching, the business of human growth. Frederick Buechner. What makes you happy? What serves the world? What mistake did I make?  (Thank you Fred & Trish!!)

Last week of high school=finals finals finals, and a few fresh starts.

It's my birthday!

A teacher who knows his subject matter well, but not his students, is not such a great teacher.

What they really mean when they say: It didn't work out. 

... so, two girls who had been piercing their own belly buttons in the bathroom...

"it really does suck to have your favorite teacher leave that you've told littearly everything too and getting a new teacher that don't know nothing about you"

coming soon: my brief prison sentence!

This is the debut episode of a podcast about the professional life - MINE. This starts a short series about just one job transition in my storied career, the last transition, from leaving a job teaching high school to a job teaching in jail. Between the jobs, adventurous hijinx ensued.