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Quitting Again
May. 8th, 2006 08:10 pmI scored teacher certification tests today. I'm going to think about it a little more, but I've just about decided to give it up again.
Good things about it:
1) Good practice with math
2) Looks good on resume
3) Fun to hear about the travel adventures of other scorers
4) Free lunch
5) Cash in vacation time
6) Short, relaxing work day with short commute
Bad things about it:
1) So many answers are depressingly bad
2) Sometimes I don't agree with the scoring system
3) Not enough calculators (I bring my own now)
4) I have to be judgmental (scoring is judging)
5) The manager we most commonly get is easily frustrated by us, I think because she has no clue what we're talking about.
6) You have to tell them two months ahead of time whether you are available, risking finding out all these other activities you'd rather be doing instead
7) The pay has not kept up with inflation or my current pay or the pay of Census workers.
8) We only get seniority raises almost never (I've gotten one in the last ten years).
9) The roads have been ruined, probably for safety reasons, so that we can no longer get onto the freeway from the road.
10) They often surprise us with other job duties which were not in the description. Like score a bunch of really poor answers done by volunteers testing new questions and evaluate the questions.
And today's new one:
11) We are not told what materials the test takers have available to them. I don't want to go into detail on this in case someone wants to sue somebody, but it makes it more difficult to measure what they know, which is my job. I always quit jobs when I feel that I am incompetent and that I can never become competent. [This happened only once, when I was at a grocery store, and I timed someone from the time they stepped into my line to the time they left and it was 30 minutes. There were not enough cashiers, and even if I had become super sacker (I was already quick at entering the prices) it would have taken unconscionably long.]
In addition, today the leader was just about freaking out that we were going too slowly, but then we find out that we will be done in 1.5 days when we had 3 full days scheduled. Too much stress.
Good things about it:
1) Good practice with math
2) Looks good on resume
3) Fun to hear about the travel adventures of other scorers
4) Free lunch
5) Cash in vacation time
6) Short, relaxing work day with short commute
Bad things about it:
1) So many answers are depressingly bad
2) Sometimes I don't agree with the scoring system
3) Not enough calculators (I bring my own now)
4) I have to be judgmental (scoring is judging)
5) The manager we most commonly get is easily frustrated by us, I think because she has no clue what we're talking about.
6) You have to tell them two months ahead of time whether you are available, risking finding out all these other activities you'd rather be doing instead
7) The pay has not kept up with inflation or my current pay or the pay of Census workers.
8) We only get seniority raises almost never (I've gotten one in the last ten years).
9) The roads have been ruined, probably for safety reasons, so that we can no longer get onto the freeway from the road.
10) They often surprise us with other job duties which were not in the description. Like score a bunch of really poor answers done by volunteers testing new questions and evaluate the questions.
And today's new one:
11) We are not told what materials the test takers have available to them. I don't want to go into detail on this in case someone wants to sue somebody, but it makes it more difficult to measure what they know, which is my job. I always quit jobs when I feel that I am incompetent and that I can never become competent. [This happened only once, when I was at a grocery store, and I timed someone from the time they stepped into my line to the time they left and it was 30 minutes. There were not enough cashiers, and even if I had become super sacker (I was already quick at entering the prices) it would have taken unconscionably long.]
In addition, today the leader was just about freaking out that we were going too slowly, but then we find out that we will be done in 1.5 days when we had 3 full days scheduled. Too much stress.