Starting from a new school with a foreign environment is just too good. I have tried to cope with it, and now it has mastered my skin.
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It all happened when I was still in my first place of work. Sporadically, it's just not too good working for a private enterprise or institutions for top long except if the management is fully working in a good mind with you. Most times I saw the management as people who like me and the other staff, but in another way, I saw them as tyrants. They are purely the type who can just like you for just that moment. They have favorite teachers in their mind.
I have stayed in that school for a very long time and there were no parents that did not know my name. Achieving this alone was a plus to my path and something I can never forget. Even until this moment, I have always been in their mind. It's just as if I should come back to them, but then it's not possible as I have moved on.
The school's payment/salary does not worth it in this present economy. So, staying in that school would only put me at a lower level. To think of moving further was a problem, but was just glued to the school. The day I decided to leave was like magic.
I had planned to leave some time ago, but the school promised to give out some pieces of land. This kept my hope on the high side. My hope was just too high after hearing this statement. I planned to buy a piece of land, but my hope of buying it died down after hearing this statement.
I began to work with them, but then, I have this hope of acquiring what they had promised to give. Although, such staff must be up to 10 years of working with them. After ten years, I was hoping to be given as well as other teachers who had also had this same hope.
Ten years had gone without fulfilling their promises, not even giving out anything to show a sign of commitment towards their plans for us.
After staying for a few years after the ten years, I decided to leave the system. The funny aspect of it was that, I was ignored after leaving. They did not bother to give me a pin as a gift. This one alone was a mess to their path. The management wanted me to be reporting teachers who were under me. I don't have that kind of mind of taking the issues of my fellow teachers to the management's table. Teachers always does that just to gain the trust of the management. To me, I don't have that character flowing in me. I smile with them and advise them anytime they did something wrong.
The new environment I had proceeded to was a higher level when compared to the former one. I began to upgrade my certificates. My salary was also upgraded, which then made me take my kids to a better school. So, it was a new beginning with a better phase of life. I never regretted taking that step, and I'm being on the high side in total.
Facing a new chapter was just the best and a means of turnaround in my life and lives of my family. My wife was so happy as well as my kids working in a better place than before, even though I do come home every weekend.
I was initially shaking and not balanced, but after staying for some time, I became balanced and firm. I have different means and connections of making extra money, unlike my former place of work. Although, the school owner is not that friendly to all the staff except few. I came to realize that they are all the same. They have the same character and the same means of behaving. No one can tell, if they are having meetings together as school owners.
The only thing that kept me going is the connections I got, which serves as another means of making extra pay to my pocket.
In the teacher's lodge I stayed in, it gave me numerous benefits as towards the kinds of people I meet. I'm with different people from different states and communities. That's what I had missed in my former place of work. I was timid in thinking and always feeling serious headache anytime I'm back from school. I go to classes all-rounder and took three different subjects. These subjects were allotted four periods each. These subjects are science subjects, including mathematics.
Laughing together with my wife and kids have given me an edge when compared with my early life in my former school. My life is a changed one as I entered another phase of life. A new chapter of my life filled with a nice beginning.