CEOTY

I'm a classified employee with ABSS. Basically means I'm hourly, but they pay me via timesheet, so I get 40 hours flat every week, so it is the equivalent of really shitty salary. I come to work every day this year through sickness and health. I only missed a day when my house burned down. I received a ballot for classified employee of the year today. Seems like all of the hourly employees get voted on by the entire staff. and the top three get an award luncheon in their honor. You know, I really think it would be cool to win, but I will be lucky if I get one vote. My job is not high profile, I'm pretty much the prison of the school. I see janitors and secretaries getting the nod based on sheer fact that they are high profile. I don't even know who all of the teachers are. Not to mention I might actually have to work to get any accolades, and I don't do much of shit all day. Maybe I feel this way because going from food service to education is a big step. I've never done so little for money, except maybe when I was a convenience store clerk. My work is all filing paper work reading emails and yelling at kids. I fill my job description and I take what I do seriously, meaning I am very careful about how I interact with the kids. Truthfully, I'd be better off low profile, if they are not thinking about you, they are not thinking about getting rid of you either.
I had a kid tell me I wasn't fair yesterday. I told him life wasn't fair either, get used to it or you'll be a tired, broken man by age 30....I should know. You know I'm kind of a cynical bastard to be working with kids. But I see all kinds of things that would crush an optimists spirit, so you get used to it. I've noticed the same thing works everytime to curtail misbehavior, find either this biggest trouble maker or the most popular of the trouble makers and get them out. It usually breaks their spirit and if you come off as being a bit unhinged, they tend to calm themselves.
I think I'm going to try really hard to get another part time job outside of pizza. I just can't deal with it anymore.