Again, lots of damage- words and pictures cannot truly show what happened. On Monday or Tuesday (they mush together after a while) I was working next to a house on route 100 that had a small stream behind it that had pushed the house off it's foundation as well as pushed most of the walls out. And besides that, the house is/was for sale. I was told that the money the owner was going to get from FEMA would cover the demolishing of the house and then she could sell the land. It's amazing how God can spare her neighbor and totally devastate her. Crazy stuff.
It seems this week the out-of-towners started to trickle back into Vermont to see the damage, see the foliage (which is beautiful, I must say), and find Long Trail Brewery. Even though it makes traveling our roads that much more difficult at times, THANK YOU flatlanders, for coming and buying stuff and paying taxes and fees that will (hopefully) help pay for some of this damage you see before you. I wave to most everyone when I am flagging. Thanking them that they are slowing down and not kicking up rocks (truckers...) and welcoming the out-of-towners to the area. Call me folksy. I'd rather be nice than yell at people for being idiots. That's the VTrans job.
I "took" Friday off from flagging to be a substitute teacher for the day. I would have made lots of money (overtime all day) flagging, but I was requested to sub, and thought I'd at least keep my hand in it a little. One teacher saw me and said, "wow, you're tan". I laughed and said it was because I'm flagging. She was taken a little aback by my new profession. I was later asked by the sub caller if I was done my job. I told her no, that it would be a while, but I'd still take days to sub if I could. Later I began to think of this quandary I've gotten into. When the schools that you sub in don't even bother to interview you for an open teaching position, you still sub there but also take jobs where you make money to pay the bills. It's hard to keep everyone happy. I don't do very well at it, but I'm learning not to care as much.
I do what I need to do. I work as a flagger making great money (as much or more if I was a full time teacher) to pay off my college loans and other bills. I'm not ashamed and I don't care if people laugh at me for what I do. I'm not here to shock (and I have shocked the people I work with- I don't smoke, swear and I have all my teeth) or make people comfortable by just doing the same ol' same ol'. I've been subbing for 6 years. God put this job before me for a reason. I needed money badly. I needed a job badly. I wanted to help my state and community. And here I am- flagging. I don't plan on making a lifelong job of it. I'm just waiting for the good Lord to open the next door of opportunity for me. Teaching? hopefully. I have applied for 2 or 3 long term substitute teaching jobs, so we'll see!
In the mean time, here's a quote for you to ruminate (thank you, thesaurus.com)
Patience is also a form of action. ~Auguste Rodin
Another fun fact- Auguste Rodin is a sculptor who made "The Thinker".
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