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Originally Posted by GoodVibrations101
My father has been giving me job advice ever since I was a teenager. It is his favorite--and only--topic of conversation.
But I work in academics, and my father doesn't understand the requirements of different sorts of jobs in my industry. But he thinks he has it all figured out. He keeps advising me about things to do, and most of his advice is unworkable.
Plus, my father is a doomsday sort of thinker. He always expects the worst and counsels worst-case scenario thinking. So when something in my career does go wrong, he isn't sympathetic, but he says, "I told you so!"
Does anyone else get bad advice from family members or from friends, who think they have good ideas?
Does anyone else have a family member who is a worst-case scenario thinker who always expects the worst to happen?
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I gave you great job advice (I think) on your other thread but you completely ignored it. Why? Join a teacher forum for insight and advice about job hunting, and for emotional support from other teachers who've been fired from their teaching jobs too. Why not? Also, like I advised, your best bet to finding another teaching job is to substitute teach in a long-term assignment, so that you and the school staff and students can figure out if you'd be a good fit for a permanent teaching job there, if and when a teaching job becomes available.
I get that your upset and frustrated with being fired. But not everyone is going to offer you the advice you want, the way you want it. If you already know your dad is a doomsdayer and he doesn't work in academia like you do, why would you seek advice/emotional support from him? If he doesn't validate your feelings or offer you empathy or sympathy, then he is not someone you should ever go to for emotional support when you need it.
My mother is mentally ill, and has never been a source of emotional support for me my entire life. And when I've had traumatic life experiences, I find other people to go to for emotional support, who have shown me that they care about me in that way.
Right now, you need to surround yourself with people who work in education, whether that's in person or online via teacher forums, who know your line of work, who've been fired from teaching jobs, who can offer you empathetic support and job-searching tips that make sense for your education industry. Asking someone who works in retail for example, for advice how you can get a teaching job, makes no sense. So, that is why I advise you to seek online forums where teachers go to chat with each other. That is probably your best online source for job searching tips.