During my first year of teaching, I taught all morning at one school, drove thirty minutes across town and worked at another for 40% of the day. I was paid 90% the salary of a full time teacher. The wide variety of things I was teaching was wild and it got very stressful but I was making the best of it. I needed to put my car back on the road and my car insurance was $1200 a month (bad driving record but not terrible). Thanks Ontario. I even had to pick up serving shifts at Dennys.
After months of doing this, I realized that I was working 65% of the day at my first school, and 50% of the day at my second school. So I was getting paid 90% to do 115% of the work. I mentioned it to both principals and they both expressed annoyance that they had to rearrange the schedule mid year. I said “I’m sorry, if I had noticed earlier, I would have said something” and one rolled his eyes and said, “well I certainly hope so.”
Like bro, you think a brand new teacher knows how much he’s supposed to teach in a day? If you had done this right the first time, this wouldn’t have happened. He even had teachers coming up to him months earlier being like, “ummm, why don’t I have a full schedule?”
The best part, my PM teacher cold called me and offered me a job without me even applying because I have rare qualifications that are in demand. Well I peaced out and they didn’t have enough teachers to run the program the following year. ¯_(ツ)_/¯