{"id":2081,"date":"2019-07-20T23:16:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T14:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/?p=2081"},"modified":"2019-07-20T23:16:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T14:16:21","slug":"no-longer-freelance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/2019\/07\/20\/no-longer-freelance\/","title":{"rendered":"No longer freelance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the title says it all, doesn&#8217;t it? As of next Monday, I work my final freelance lesson so as to better manage my life and mental health. It&#8217;s been a bit weird in my newish job: I thought reducing the number of workplaces I go to would reduce the mental load but instead, stupidly, brain makes tons of suggestions of things to do. I also started some different research projects which are exciting (to me) but also time consuming.<\/p>\n<p>Now, even though I am not a freelancer any more (for the time being?), I am very much doing my own thing with my professional development. Work is very laissez-faire about what I do but I can as to order any number of books for our intensive course teachers&#8217; library, and have had this for a while and honestly it&#8217;s brill to just know that I can get stuff basically whenever.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this is a bit of a rambling post, but basically, some stuff that I have been looking at that relates very much to TESOL teaching issues and such are:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5xWRA-14S\">Giulia&#8217;s post<\/a> about her bag, which is essentially any freelancer&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bulletjournal.com\/\">Bullet Journal<\/a>, which I have dabbled with, went to buy a different book about productivity and couldn&#8217;t find it so bought Ryder Carroll&#8217;s <em>The Bullet Journal Method<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachersasworkers.org\/monkeys-and-rotten-peanuts\/\">Teachers as Workers post<\/a> on working conditions (which says that working conditions in Germany are similar to those in Japan); keep your eyes peeled for a new post by me on the iTDi blog, too.<\/p>\n<p>I am also looking quite critically at task-based language teaching stuff: not especially negatively, just critically, and hopefully will have a paper out about it sometime in the next year or something.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, those of you on holidays, enjoy them. Those still teaching, thanks for stopping by while you are so busy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the title says it all, doesn&#8217;t it? As of next Monday, I work my final freelance lesson so as to better manage my life and mental health. It&#8217;s been a bit weird in my newish job: I thought reducing the number of workplaces I go to would reduce the mental load but instead, stupidly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[48,73],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa34By-xz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2084,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions\/2084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}