“I’m an Accountant” from Fred Klonsky’s Blog 10-11-11
It happened again Saturday night.
Anne and I were at a social event with people I didn’t know. We were seated at a table along with two other couples, both much younger than we are.
“What do you do?”
“I’m a K-5 art teacher.”
As I often point out, in the old days this answer would have produced a smile and a response like, “Oh, that must be fun.” There would be nowhere to go after that and we would move on to other topics of small talk.
Not now.
They always want to talk about tenure, seniority, firing teachers, contracts