Update 3: Total raised $225; $425 remaining
This diary is an appeal for assistance (Part 2)
and a status report on the current state of my life.
If you aren’t interested in this sort of diary, please move on.
Thank you.
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Part 1 of this campaign from last week is HERE
Current Need Total: $650
September Living Expenses: $350
CSET Teaching Credential TEst Fee: $300
Brief Backstory (which “everyone knows”):
I am a 58-year-old disabled cancer survivor with a permanent colostomy.
After fifteen years of being the caregiver for my elderly and disabled father, Dad died and after several false starts at some terrible jobs, I began working as a substitute teacher. I am starting my third year as a substitute teacher. I love doing this necessary job and have worked in every elementary school in Salinas and Greenfield California, along with several middle and high schools. I have a good relationship with students and I am becoming well known locally. When I go out in public to shops, movies, public events, and so on, I am often greeted with happy cries of “MISTER GREEN”. A friend expressed my situation well when he said to me: “I don't remember ANY of the substitute teachers I had”.
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I am in the process of applying for a teaching credential program at CSU Monterey Bay, which will begin in Fall 2019 and I should be able to begin working as an intern teacher (at full teacher pay) in Fall 2020. At that point, my income will more than double and I won't need to ask for help anymore, baring some major event like great depression or I have medical or other unexpected crisis.
HOWEVER, I have to get through life and live indoors until then. This includes the summer where there are few or no substitute teaching jobs. Temporary jobs I’ve found, at least locally, are mostly minimum wage and employers want young fit workers for those jobs, not disabled middle-aged men who can’t lift more than 20 pounds.
I need additional help to get through the summer and winter breaks, and this is the reason for my asking for help.
I ask that you don’t think of this as pure charity, but supporting me in doing good things for the community, not just in my teaching, but also in the other things I do, such as being the secretary of the Monterey County Democrats. As such, please consider helping not just now, but ongoing in some of the Patreon and future Kickstarter projects I will post in the future.
HOW TO HELP WITHOUT CONTRIBUTING FUNDS
- Please REC, TIP, COMMENT and SHARE this diary to Facebook, Twitter, and other social media. You may reach someone who can. Even a comment saying “Good Luck” or photo of your critter(s) helps.
- Follow my DKos Channel.
Subscribe to My YouTube Channels:
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HOW TO CONTRIBUTE FUND NOW
PayPal (James at JamesThomasGreen dot com) |OR| GoFundMe
Pet Supplies Amazon Wishlist (feed my dogs and cats)
JTG's Clothing Amazon Wishlist (My underroos are getting threadbare)
HOW TO CONTRIBUTE FUND LONG TERM
Patreon-Monthly Set Amount • More Patreon per-creation accounts coming soon
Buy from My Online Shops (Buy a T-shirt, bag, print, etc):
Kosmail me for my postal address or other options
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Life Update:
Part 1 is HERE
I have been working almost every day in the past couple of weeks as a substitute teacher. The first and last few weeks of the school year are sparse in assignments, but my calendar is filling up and as in prior years, I’ve now had to turn down several morning-of/last-minute requests because I’ve already been booked.
One notable assignment was me teaching kindergarten in the very same kindergarten classroom where I myself went to kindergarten, i.e. Room 16 at Alisal Community School. This is not the first time I’ve been to that room as a sub, and as this is my third year as a sub, I’ve seen a turnover in kinder teachers. Three years and this is the third kinder teacher. This contrasts with when I was in elementary school where “Mrs. A” was the kindergarten teacher from the time I was her new student to after I left Alisal after sixth grade.
The day after kindergarten returned to a middle school in Greenfield where I was teaching 8th graders scientific notation and exponents. This variation in teaching illustrates my versatility as a teacher. I’ve found that most subs tend to specialize, i.e. subs concentrate on a particular grade level whereas I’ve taught every grade level between preschool to high school.
This next Friday, I will be at a meet-and-greet for California Lieutenant-Governor and Candidate for Governor, Gavin Newsom. I’ve known him since he was mayor of San Francisco. I would not say he’s a personal friend, but he does recognize me. In the pre-Dad’s-death days, I used to be much more very active in the Democratic party, and I saw Newsom many times, and vice versa. When the attached photo was taken in 2010, he commented: “you’re everywhere”. Unfortunately once he became Lieutenant Governor, I have had little access to him because of his security combined with me not being as able to get out as much, and he does few “free” events anymore, and I’m not going to pay $250 or more to see him, not when I have to do funding campaigns to get money for rent.
On the critter front, a new pupper has come into my life. Thursday I was in a local drug store and as I was standing in line, I heard a mother tell her young child to “stay away from that dog, it might bite you”. I looked down and there was a tiny dog walking around. It had apparently just walked into the store. I reached down and wiggled my fingers and it came over and sniffed them, so I picked it up. From its teeth and testicles, it appears to be about six months old. As the drug store in a very busy traffic area, turning it loose would have probably been a death sentence for it. I took it to a local vet which scanned it and did not find a chip. I brought it home and it’s now lying beside me. It hasn’t been introduced to all my other puppies yet, but it’s quite friendly and it may join my “Critters of Casa de Verde”. It is tiny, even smaller than tiny Dorcas, who has been growling and snapping at it. Kitty Na’at has been fearless about walking up to the puppy, sniffing it, and even lying on it, while her older stepbrother Apophis has been hissing at it and slapping it when it gets too close and eager. The puppy is quite friendly and it’s apparent that it was probably someone’s escaped pet. Too bad there is no chip in it. It has a deformed face and it’s unclear whether that is because of a birth defect or an injury. I have been thinking of names if I end up keeping him, depending on how the other puppies get along with him.
#jtg
HOW TO HELP WITHOUT CONTRIBUTING FUNDS
- Please REC, TIP, COMMENT and SHARE this diary to Facebook, Twitter, and other social media. You may reach someone who can. Even a comment saying “Good Luck” or photo of your critter(s) helps.
- Follow my DKos Channel.
Subscribe to My YouTube Channels:
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HOW TO CONTRIBUTE FUND NOW
PayPal (James at JamesThomasGreen dot com) |OR| GoFundMe
Pet Supplies Amazon Wishlist (feed my dogs and cats)
JTG's Clothing Amazon Wishlist (My underroos are getting threadbare)
HOW TO CONTRIBUTE FUND LONG TERM
Patreon-Monthly Set Amount • More Patreon per-creation accounts coming soon
Buy from My Online Shops (Buy a T-shirt, bag, print, etc):
Kosmail me for my postal address or other options
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