Thank God For Jewish Holidays

This is one of those years that NYC Teachers love. It's a three Jewish Holiday year. I know everyone thinks we have too much time off and don't work enough. Most people don't believe we are as underpaid as we feel that we are. After all we do have July and August and those weeks off during the year for Christmas, Spring Break and February break. But like the rest of life there are pluses and minuses. And those extra three days off this year are looking like a big plus.

The plus is all of those days off on one hand. That is also a minus. When you have all of those days off you don't have the luxury of planning a vacation that falls outside of those days off. And trust me there are not a whole lot of sick days given on top of those pre-determined days off. Of course the salary is not the greatest, especially when you are starting out and those times off are also peak travel times and the most expensive times to travel.

So this year we got all of the Jewish Holidays and I am happy. The only thing that would have been better is if they had fallen next to the weekend and if the shitty ass mayor had negotiated a contract so that I would actually have had some money to go somewhere. So I will content myself with sleeping late, being a slug for the day and resisting the urge to do something meaningful and productive.