Fired!

In the half of my lifetime that I have been working, I have been relieved of my duties twice. The first was at my very first job at an ice cream store, where I was accused of scooping kids cones too big. While she did have a point, I maintain that she was also completely crazy and not a person that I wanted to be working for anyway. The second time came last week, when I was told by a certain Upper East Side preschool that my one-day-a-week contract would not be renewed because “movement is more than just running and jumping”. I was shocked; I have been teaching at this school for three years and the director who delivered this news is in her first year. I probably should have been worried when the only criticism she ever gave me on my classes was that I was not allowed to sing Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire”… It hurt me to think that I would not be working with the many teachers and kids that I truly love there but luckily, I am confident that I am a very well appreciated teacher everywhere else I work and that this was just a personal issue this woman had with me; I take it personally but only in relation to her. It’s their loss…

And so I move on. I was so lucky to find my work and the path it has taken me on over the past 8 years. I love music and I love kids and I have so many other venues to enjoy this experience that I refuse to let this situation have anything but positive effects on my life.

Perhaps I should thank her?